Work is Madness
MADNESS I SAY! MADNESS.
For the past year, I've basically done nothing but sit. or sit down. or get up from sitting down, only to sit down moments later. At work, all I do is STAND. My feet hurt and there isn't a comfortable pair of shoes in the world that could make them feel all better. I did an epsom salt soak the other day and rid myself of 65- ( Read more... )
For the past year, I've basically done nothing but sit. or sit down. or get up from sitting down, only to sit down moments later. At work, all I do is STAND. My feet hurt and there isn't a comfortable pair of shoes in the world that could make them feel all better. I did an epsom salt soak the other day and rid myself of 65- ( Read more... )
Morgan Freeman's comments have definitely taken on a negative pallor and as he has yet to clarify to original intent; all everyone else can do is speculate. Nonetheless, there is a significant portion of black Americans (and blacks worldwide) who view 'mixed race' blacks as inferior and for me his comments (at face value) point more so to that ideal than political gravitas and the lack thereof.
On the topic of Blacks and Mixed Race I would say that there is definitively a distinction. Not recognizing the differences is akin to throwing a blanket over them/pretending they don't exist. For me, when I don't acknowledge my heritage (or consider myself solely Black), I feel like I'm not giving due respect to my family and all the varied cultures that influenced my upbringing. On the flip side, when I refer to myself as Mixed Race, I feel somewhat pretension and that I'm not accepting the fact that experience life as a black woman.
I would easily venture to say that most Mixed Race people experience a similar cognitive dissonance and have a kind of like Spock existence with the "of two worlds" vibe to themselves. When I was younger, my extended family used to call me "light, bright, or nearly white" as a pejorative term commenting on my non-exclusive blackness. Unfortunately, this ridiculousness is pervasive.
Quite Frankly, I despise the conceptual artist Adrian Piper, but if you have the time (and inclination) you should give her work a gander. She's mixed race (black and white) but her coloring tends towards whiteness. When she was surrounded by Caucasians, they would assume she was pure white and go off out mini racist rants. She would later confide that she was mixed race and it would be very embarrassing. Basically her art was her shtick was on what it means to be mixed race and society's perception of that idea.
This is getting tl;dr, but I'll end with the fact that I'm both black and mixed race and I think both are equally fantastic. :D
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