Race is not bad, racism is. [] What bothered me most is the word that Raven never uttered in the first person, at least not in the edited version of the interview that aired: Black. She never talked about being a Black woman, or a Black person. She said her skin was “darker,” her hair was “nice” and that she connects to people of all races. But where was that pride, that sense of race consciousness that says “My Black is beautiful, good, enough.” Why the need to wash it away with “colorless?” It seems fair to assume that “post racial,” “new Black” and “colorless” are imaginary islands to which people go in search of protection from the pain, the suffering, the indignities and the limitations that are readily associated with Black life in America. But, [] it isn’t identifying publicly as people of color that is holding us back. And the gains that we have made in terms of chipping away at racial inequality didn’t come from washing away our Blackness, but from owning it and demanding that our humanity be acknowledged.
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 08:48:16 +0000
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