Category: Race and Predetermination

Just Won’t Let Me Be

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If I sing, I am a minstrel Can’t dance, won’t smile because I’m “shuckin’ and jivin’” If I don’t, I am an “angry black woman”   Can’t cook without Aunt Jemima’s head scarf Can’t eat without watermelon and fried chicken   If I tell the truth, I am an Uncle Tom If I don’t, it […]

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Race

.Reading time 8 minutes.

I know that many persons don’t understand my displeasure with race and I can’t point to the specific time when my intense dissatisfaction began.  In fact, I don’t know why I just can’t let go of the conviction that race must be eradicated, that I don’t see it as others have though I have had many of the same […]

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Pace Yourself

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Like those who say of themselves “I was born to sing” or “I was born to dance,” speaking of an innate desire or ability, I can say of this work that I was born to do it. My reponse to race has remained consistent though only recently have I come to understand why. This fascination began […]

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