An excerpt, from the latest post from One Tenacious that I found myself nodding head to:
"We've just got to be more patriarchal, heterosexual, monogamous, god fearin', baby havin', married and nice. Living together just isn't enough! If you don't buy in fully, you won't reap the benefits of living in this (stolen, bloodied, abused, poisoned) land of plenty!
Descendants of slaves were taught that doing all this would raise us up in the eyes of those who bought us, fucked the wimmin, fucked the men, forced the mothers to fuck the sons, forced the uncles to fuck the nieces, forced everyone to go to church and pray to the white patriarchal god, bought, sold and tortured human flesh and felt that they were the arbiters of what it meant to be proper human beings.
And so, with this in mind, with the fact that the idea of patriarchal, romantic, heterosexual, monogamous, wedded love as the one and only saviour of black people firmly nestled as a perpetually vomit inducing irritant in my mind..."
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(Now I'm off to email her to let her know I'm quoting her and stuff.)
1 comment:
Hi there,
I'm glad you liked that post and found something that resonated for you. I liked that post, too. Thanks for the nod.
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