The blackwoman hasn't been around much lately. Real life is far more compelling. The DK might be real life for some, but not the kid. Since the beginning of the year, I feel like I've marched through hell wearing gasoline drawers.
My ass is intact.
What with so much happening in my world,I spend a lot of time in stillness,contemplation and reflection.
I realized why DK will likely never have a large black community. This place is basically a hostile environment for people of color. It's okay to get a history lesson about race, but current racial events are too sensitive a topic to get real participation. Hell, there are people here who consistently deny the existence of white privilege.
Last week I was having one of my daily conversations with Amazinggrace.I can't even tell you what she said that triggered the whole thing. We cover so much ground on a daily basis.
At any rate I had an epiphany right then and there. It was as if I found myself with the ability to see the future. And laugh my ass off.
I realized that I will live long enough to see white folks as the minority in this country.
I laugh my ass off every time I think of Rush advocating for minority rights. Or Sean Hannity. Actually any and all those fools.
When brown people become the majority in the not too distant future, the republican'ts of today will become tomorrow's progressives.
They'll have to.
Sure, they will still believe themselves to be superior in every way but they won't have the numbers to maintain their superiority on an institutional basis.
That's some funny shit. It's perfect in a way. There is something truly balanced about a Universe where such a thing can happen. It's taken a long time, but like my daddy used to say, "Every dog has it's day."
To all those white supremacist all I can say is "Take a look at the sunrise, Fido."
It is not unreasonable to surmise that once whites are the minority, affirmative action will have European voices singing that tune. Things always look different on the inside.
I can scarcely wait to read the decision Uncle Thomas writes in favor of minority rights once his masters need him to do so.
Am I the only one who salivates at the idea of Pat Buchanan raising his voice on behalf of disenfranchised whites? Hell he's already started.
I might have to stop in DK for a little nah nah nahnah nah for the folk round here now that doubt this day will ever come. I saw it. With my own eyes.
These same eyes have seen Jim crow and the Civil Rights Movement. Nam.Raygun. George Bush. Nine eleven. Barack Obama. Some of the most amazing stuff that has happened did so while I watched. The last sixty years have been nothing if not eventful. Soon enough,I've learned, the life you are living becomes part of the history of this nation. Kids will study your generation and some will even try to correct you based not on life experience, but on a reading excursion. That is if you do more than sit on your ass and bitch about things.
Some of the deniers of white privilege will miss it sorely once it no longer exists as a function of being. I suspect the white privilege recognition factor will increase like crazy. Of course it will be too late. Oh well.
It won't happen all at once. For a while white folk will remain at the helm of the ships of finance. Eventually they will be replaced as America grows accustomed to leadership that is not from the frozen chosen.
Like Pat Buchanan and others I am putting racist, crazy white folk on notice. Your time is almost up. But you know that.
Now run and tell that.