what to think?
there it is again
Click to viewThe clickbait link for this was “Seriously, Never Say Any Of These Things To Black Men Again,” so, really, Huffington Post landed a little bit away from the point again; nothing new there.
Apart from making me feel even older than usual, this short makes me feel really weary and a smidge hopeless, in a very Orpheus Descending solitary-confinement-inside-our-own-skins sense.
And then we have Gay Wyatt Cenac hiding in there, being comic and mulatto, true to his brand, but without the incredibly stilted writing/performing of Day Drunk Gays.
What's most unsettling about this piece, though, is that my usual reaction to finding greater points of identification like this is to feel a little better, a little more personally secure to find out that “it's not just me,” but in this particular moment, I feel neutral to worse.
Very old and very alone in it.