“Because Black people have been robbed, they become a symbol of robbery; because they have been dispossessed, they embody the terror of dispossession.”
Such a succinct description of how centuries of gross privilege automatically regress us back to age three maybe four. Emotionally morally and corporately, as in acting as a group.
“For Dickinson, to imagine herself in the position of a Black person is to imagine herself being dispossessed by a Black person.”
This reminds me of something you recently wrote about trans women. That for men to imagine themselves as women- to acknowledge that trans women exist- is to have their masculinity stripped. All of our hatreds have intertwined roots.
“Because Black people have been robbed, they become a symbol of robbery; because they have been dispossessed, they embody the terror of dispossession.”
Such a succinct description of how centuries of gross privilege automatically regress us back to age three maybe four. Emotionally morally and corporately, as in acting as a group.
Perfectly put.
Please continue writing…
“For Dickinson, to imagine herself in the position of a Black person is to imagine herself being dispossessed by a Black person.”
This reminds me of something you recently wrote about trans women. That for men to imagine themselves as women- to acknowledge that trans women exist- is to have their masculinity stripped. All of our hatreds have intertwined roots.
TIL something!
The Obama presidency really tipped too big a percentage of our population over the racist cliff, judging by their current gibbering rage.
Recently I read the "Of the Coming of John" in W. E. DuBois "The Souls of Black Folk."
I was horrified by how it continues to echo through our society _right now_.