in particular the line of...Happy Black Girl Day Black assimilation is premised on being accepted by White peopleand making them feel comfortable. In reading Kevin Mumford’s brilliant book, Interzones, I learned that theUrban League and the NAACP are historically rooted in makingsure that country Negros from the south, who moved to the north,didn’t make aspiring middle class Black folks [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Happy Black Girl Day x Assimilation x Whiteness
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Chicken Bone Bus
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010On everything I Love. I was on the bus from DC to NY on New Years Eve. This dude, sitting next to me after the Philly stop, was sippingsomething in a 16 oz Pepsi bottle. He then gets up and announcesthat he wants to “start a gambling jawn, on the bus, give the driver 20%, [...]
Bless Him, Change Me
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010Love. Resistance. Desire. About a week or so ago FD said, “He couldn’t do it anymore.” Ouch. I thought it was just a strong response to the holiday season,but I ain’t heard from him. It was a little rocky. The tipping point for me, was didn’t hear from him when we hadblizzard a couple of [...]
