white boys
Attention all confused sons of liberals feeling guilty about their obsession with black culture: get over it. We're not the only ones, people. All over the world, black culture is revered for it's intrinsic value and it's not patronizing to act on this appreciation. It's patronizing to single yourself out as a special exception to the world's spectrum of brown and think "we" have the worst relationship with blacks (or that "I" am the only white person 'down' enough to see it). America's racial reality is unique, I give it that, but we are still members of a larger context that looks at 'the white' man as just another shade of brown.
Anthropologically, 'the white man' will be looked at as the material war-mongerors who built rome, again and again only to disintegrate back into integration when the numbers grew out of control. The question is, from what socio-economic stage of development will the anthropologist be looking through with this world-view? Post-WWIII/apocalyptic back-to-nature rebuilding of Earth on Integral terms-ish? Who knows?
There are racial generalizations that are true, but getting hung up in their subtlties and importance in the overall picture is counter-productive. An impartial attention paid to the realm of race among other factors of human grouping is logical enough. But race is so lived, given lip-service to, mocked, satired, & beat over the head that I'm lashing out now in defense of more world-centric ethics that transcend and include the ethnics. It's important that this ability to prioritize emerge in more of the mental envorionment before the ethnocentrists have their bloody self-fulfilled revelation where their one true God finally hands out the hell-sentences to all the wrong-ethnics/coloreds.
I think the reason we are so appreciative of black culture is that we are all from africa, but the humans most closely connected to the mother land in heritage have more of that primordial foundation in their evolution. Their genetics haven't trailed off into mutations that focus their inclinations to things other than just-being, light-minded and immediate to all their activities, attuned to the natural flow of Earth life. I'm not putting all black people on this pedestal, nor am I counting any other shades of brown less able to tap into this flow. I'm merely suggesting that the oldest bones are black so they've had the most practice at staying true to just being alive, appreciating it, and trying to be good a that instead of vying for world domination. Blacks are better at all the things humans do that require a simple immediacy and no-nonsense attitude combined with a truly infinite-potential faith that there's no limits set on what they can achieve. And even that's an over generalization that stinks of the obsessing with the race issue I'm trying to denounce here.
I would like to just say what we're all thinking somehow and be able to point out the futility in dwelling on the race issue further. But as a self-confessing post-wigger trying to come to terms with my own race-identity attachments, it feels like a last-ditch attempt at proving that I am the alpha-white-with-brown awareness and therefore better than all other whites. Hypocritical existence is an on-going problem for transwiggers.
Even if I take up the ways of the brown man, sometimes it feels like I do it in spite of a white path that is in some way my 'manifest destiny' and not because I am truly drawn to it. My greatest gift from God, however, is this intense feeling of belonging to a more Kosmic strata of being that really doesn't give too much of a shit about any of this race stuff. I believe this is where the impulse to somehow rid the rest of humanity of this parasitical guilt/doubt/etc. is coming from.
When I rest in this Kosmic awareness and look at my habitual reccurring issues with race, it's frustrating but neither here nor there compared to any of my other frustrations with my ego's clingy nature. In spirit, I try to make note of any inclinations I notice my ego following through or denying then break them down from an emptiness authority-figure idea. There's this serious confidence in the superiority of an impartialiality when dealing with pretty much anything that arises that comes from my Taoist and Yogic studies/practices/understandings. I sometimes confuse this with residual racial-supremacy tendencies that got experienced on both extremes in my wierd little foray into black and white-ology in American culture.
Hiphop, I swear, is the integration catalyst that cuts with a flatland blade that both liberates me from ethnocentricity and bleeds me of my much needed logical appreciation of heirarchies.
Liberality is a trap. It's a self-righteousness founded on a weak cop-out from dealing with the reality of ethnocentric power-struggles. Hiphop is bigger than this. Liberality and Conservatism both push a style of HIphop that's self-aggrandizing to their slanted causes. But real Hiphoppas are some of the best skeptics since the scientific methodists, and our social awareness is very advanced and open (as long as it's dope/resonant, we'll respect and validate). We have a natural order of heirarchy based on this 'dopeness' factor. It's similar to the Rasta philosophy of, "who feels it, knows it" and thus anything clearly shown and proven is worthy of consideration, even respect and admiration.
The fact that both Hiphop and Rastafarianism stem from black(browner) culture are just more fuel to my racial inquiry though. If there really is a simple, race-based caste system that quantifyably gives those of browner complexion a higher tendency towards positive, building, more spiritual and therefore more powerful in the physical domain (and vice-versa relegates the lighter-skinned more prone to negative, destructive, more materialistic trickery and subsequently weaker over-all presence in the physical) then I'd be "cured", right? Done. Black and white, it's just true. That's our lot in being born, whatever color we are, it's integral to the kosmic karma we have to work out here in this physical manifestation. I mock this simplistic deduction in the same breath I try to earn it some truth-points. I just don't know beyond what I've read and heard from the most intelligent sources I have found.
Existence tells me I'll be dealing with the race issue for at least most of the rest of my life so I accept it. I'm a white boy fa sho fa sho, black-minded pseudo afro-centric truth-ho, worshipper of the dirty brown earthness we are all blessed with less or mo'. Am I a racist, supremecist, or seperatist specifically? Yes and No, my liquidity says both but neither. Definately global. Kosmic whole believer. All Praise infinity with every sip of ether.
Anthropologically, 'the white man' will be looked at as the material war-mongerors who built rome, again and again only to disintegrate back into integration when the numbers grew out of control. The question is, from what socio-economic stage of development will the anthropologist be looking through with this world-view? Post-WWIII/apocalyptic back-to-nature rebuilding of Earth on Integral terms-ish? Who knows?
There are racial generalizations that are true, but getting hung up in their subtlties and importance in the overall picture is counter-productive. An impartial attention paid to the realm of race among other factors of human grouping is logical enough. But race is so lived, given lip-service to, mocked, satired, & beat over the head that I'm lashing out now in defense of more world-centric ethics that transcend and include the ethnics. It's important that this ability to prioritize emerge in more of the mental envorionment before the ethnocentrists have their bloody self-fulfilled revelation where their one true God finally hands out the hell-sentences to all the wrong-ethnics/coloreds.
I think the reason we are so appreciative of black culture is that we are all from africa, but the humans most closely connected to the mother land in heritage have more of that primordial foundation in their evolution. Their genetics haven't trailed off into mutations that focus their inclinations to things other than just-being, light-minded and immediate to all their activities, attuned to the natural flow of Earth life. I'm not putting all black people on this pedestal, nor am I counting any other shades of brown less able to tap into this flow. I'm merely suggesting that the oldest bones are black so they've had the most practice at staying true to just being alive, appreciating it, and trying to be good a that instead of vying for world domination. Blacks are better at all the things humans do that require a simple immediacy and no-nonsense attitude combined with a truly infinite-potential faith that there's no limits set on what they can achieve. And even that's an over generalization that stinks of the obsessing with the race issue I'm trying to denounce here.
I would like to just say what we're all thinking somehow and be able to point out the futility in dwelling on the race issue further. But as a self-confessing post-wigger trying to come to terms with my own race-identity attachments, it feels like a last-ditch attempt at proving that I am the alpha-white-with-brown awareness and therefore better than all other whites. Hypocritical existence is an on-going problem for transwiggers.
Even if I take up the ways of the brown man, sometimes it feels like I do it in spite of a white path that is in some way my 'manifest destiny' and not because I am truly drawn to it. My greatest gift from God, however, is this intense feeling of belonging to a more Kosmic strata of being that really doesn't give too much of a shit about any of this race stuff. I believe this is where the impulse to somehow rid the rest of humanity of this parasitical guilt/doubt/etc. is coming from.
When I rest in this Kosmic awareness and look at my habitual reccurring issues with race, it's frustrating but neither here nor there compared to any of my other frustrations with my ego's clingy nature. In spirit, I try to make note of any inclinations I notice my ego following through or denying then break them down from an emptiness authority-figure idea. There's this serious confidence in the superiority of an impartialiality when dealing with pretty much anything that arises that comes from my Taoist and Yogic studies/practices/understandings. I sometimes confuse this with residual racial-supremacy tendencies that got experienced on both extremes in my wierd little foray into black and white-ology in American culture.
Hiphop, I swear, is the integration catalyst that cuts with a flatland blade that both liberates me from ethnocentricity and bleeds me of my much needed logical appreciation of heirarchies.
Liberality is a trap. It's a self-righteousness founded on a weak cop-out from dealing with the reality of ethnocentric power-struggles. Hiphop is bigger than this. Liberality and Conservatism both push a style of HIphop that's self-aggrandizing to their slanted causes. But real Hiphoppas are some of the best skeptics since the scientific methodists, and our social awareness is very advanced and open (as long as it's dope/resonant, we'll respect and validate). We have a natural order of heirarchy based on this 'dopeness' factor. It's similar to the Rasta philosophy of, "who feels it, knows it" and thus anything clearly shown and proven is worthy of consideration, even respect and admiration.
The fact that both Hiphop and Rastafarianism stem from black(browner) culture are just more fuel to my racial inquiry though. If there really is a simple, race-based caste system that quantifyably gives those of browner complexion a higher tendency towards positive, building, more spiritual and therefore more powerful in the physical domain (and vice-versa relegates the lighter-skinned more prone to negative, destructive, more materialistic trickery and subsequently weaker over-all presence in the physical) then I'd be "cured", right? Done. Black and white, it's just true. That's our lot in being born, whatever color we are, it's integral to the kosmic karma we have to work out here in this physical manifestation. I mock this simplistic deduction in the same breath I try to earn it some truth-points. I just don't know beyond what I've read and heard from the most intelligent sources I have found.
Existence tells me I'll be dealing with the race issue for at least most of the rest of my life so I accept it. I'm a white boy fa sho fa sho, black-minded pseudo afro-centric truth-ho, worshipper of the dirty brown earthness we are all blessed with less or mo'. Am I a racist, supremecist, or seperatist specifically? Yes and No, my liquidity says both but neither. Definately global. Kosmic whole believer. All Praise infinity with every sip of ether.
posted by Jezi at 12:23 AM
1 Comments:
Hey fly girl (and I do mean fly...pic<---DAYUM) uhh, gaining composure, uh, thinking of intelligent responce, uhh, hehe lemme sheddup and start talkin.
"If you thought there was any basis for your oppressor's hatred of you, then how could you ever have enough self worth to fight for your own salvation? When a people have experienced such trauma, I think a part of their journey toward redefining themselves initially, is to utterly vilify their vanquishers and to self-righteously declare themselves to be sanctified."(or superior?)
You pretty much summed up the more extreme black-nationalist ideology nice and succinctly there. I occupy this wierd space of a caucasian who felt inclined to discover if the black man really was God and the white man really was the devil after reading the pivotal A.O.Malcolm X and listening to so may Hiphop albums dropping their subtle clues. I have gravitated towards the 5%ers ever since, up to the point of actually rooming with a couple the year of 9/11. I went to the meetings, built with the gods, studied some lessons, but all the while i felt a glass ceiling forming above me under the nomenclature ascribed to any non-brown: that of a "culture seed". Bottom line was, there is some science to their beliefs on brown-superiority regarding the actual physical weight of the brain and the vitamin-d producing melanin. But aside from these assertions, I have born witness to the brown man's utter superiority in most activities I found personally interesting (Hiphop, music, sports, etc) always noting that a little salt was always sprinkled in with the greatest of great peppers. I could really feel the difference right away though between a brown vibe and a non-brown, on records for example, and even when a non-brown was dope, it was because they had the vibe of a brown. This is the source of my inquiry into the true intrinsics of human proclivity.
You're pointing out to the disproportionate amount of brown to white affirms that I'm not denigrating my white people specifically. I am merely pointing out that in the natural order of things, brown rules. All down-ass white people know this intuitively. The emergence of the "white man" is moreso the emergence of the "super man" who thinks that elitism is a treasure that must be hoarded and insitutionalized to trickle down to a very few in a particular ruling class or bloodline. Brown people started this(pharoahs), sorry to say, the white man just perfected it(Illuminati). Now-a-days, I believe there is no racial requirement to play a part in elitist conspiricies as Condolezza rice blatantly proves. But the ethnocentric-puberty we all go through still exists as a challenge to broaden our sense of self-identity to be more integral or inclusive yet transcendant of our merely physical, national, or ideological connections with other humans.
on my aside, I am honored to meet you digitally, as it were, and any friend of Hannah's is most likely going to be one of the most intelligent and spirited people I'll ever meet. Thanks alot for your comments and I look forward to more dialogue and who knows, perhaps a meeting one day (I promise I'll be a lot less on your jock, at least on the surface, for the purpose of casual comfort) but I must say, that is one pretty picture.
Will look into this M Theory and offer some thoughts on your blog shortly thereafter.
Peace Earth
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