I cringe inside every time someone calls me Caucasian. Why? First of all, because it implies heritage in the Caucacus Mountain area, and although my ancestors were a bunch of wandering bastards, to my knowledge none of them lived in that vicinity…. But more importantly, because of the man who coined the word. Johann Friedrich [...]
You Do Not Get A Laminated Ghetto Pass*
Some of you may have read My 10 Rules For White People Who Hang Out With Black People This young thing has broken rule #5, which is a soft rule, you can push that one and slide by, but she really stepped in it by breaking rules #1 and #2: V-NASTY! FEMALE RAPPER FROM EAST OAKLAND! [...]
8 Things Black Women Get Away With That White Women Can’t
So, two months ago Madame Noir published the article: White Women Do It, Too: 8 Things Black Women Can’t Get Away With Doing by LaShaun Williams. This article suavly bypasses such topics as the wage gap, promotions, or, god-forbid–running for President–in favor of covering such crucial issues as “being a slut,” “getting a nose job” [...]
It’s the Black Kids
A very nice micro-dreadlocked older woman held her umbrella for my daughter to huddle under at Pride. We got talking. “So where do you live?” She asked me. “I live in XXXX” (neighborhood with a reputation for rich people/Jews/rich Jewish people.) “With my parents.” “Oh, I live in the Boston.” She responded. “But my daughter’s [...]
Not Normal
Understanding that my heritage included such abuse helped me deal with my feelings of white guilt. Seeing slavery and institutionalized racism from the context of a (mentally) enslaved people perpetuating their own oppression, I could compare it to a child abuse victim duplicating their own abuse.
Still NOT OKAY. But maybe something that can be understood and healed.
Black Womyn: Conversations With Lesbians of African Descent
A Film by tiona.m. If you like the trailer, buy the DVD!
I Am Not Clear!
Actual words that came out of my radio this morning: “A lot of my closest friends in college were actually clear.” Really? Are you serious? Don’t make me reach into that radio and smack you! (I know how–after all, some of my “closest friends” are “urban!”) (For those of you still wondering what the hell [...]
First Post
So a while ago bloggers were all putting up their first post, and I never got around to mine…but I just went back and looked at it. The first was basically my about page. The about page has changed a little since then, and you can check it out if you want to, but it’s [...]
That Thing That I said…
So a conversation that I had a while ago has been troubling me. It was late at night, and I was explaining how I attributed my car not starting to my improperly installed stereo: “Yeah, it was installed by Mexicans, and they didn’t do it right, so it turns on by itself sometimes.” “What do [...]
10 Rules For White People Who Hang Out With Black People
If you are already a white person who hangs out with black people you probably already know these rules–and when and how to break them. If you’re just starting to hang out with black people, or are wondering about those strange looks your black friends, colleagues and associates sometimes give you–you might want to brush [...]
