So you know I had to bring this up and talk about the silliness of the blackness of Barack Obama. This is not going to take long because it is really a non issue. Let me tell you why.
I will start with me. Let's talk about my heritage who in all actuality is no one special just a chick with a really big mouth. I'm not famous and no one cares about my lineage. But here goes.
My father tells of a story of our family coming over from South Carolina with of course the slave owner to Tallulah, Louisiana. Once settled and our family was freed my great, great grandfather married or rather fathered children with a woman with grey eyes and jet black long hair. My Uncle Richard speaks of Blackfoot in his mother, my grandmother. Gotta be something cause my uncles love to wear their hair past their shoulders. I think they don't want you to forget or they don't want to.
My mother's father was Native American. My mother acutally "had papers" as she called them. Her mother was what they considered Geechee or Gichi from Nagitoches, Lousiana where they settled after slavery moving from the southern portion of Louisiana. My mother's mother claimed a Creole background which is French, Spanish and Black.
But when you look at me, when you really see me what do you see? How does America see me and my children and my family? No matter that we are all different colors and textures and shapes. Some of us have straight hair or curly or kinky. Some of us have green eyes or brown or grey. However when you see us, and when even I look in the mirror I see black. I see African American. Even with all that I know about my heritage and being told "You look like you are from India or could pass for this or that if you were over seas." None of that mess matters. I'm human and in this country, I am Black, African American period.
Now in the case of many people of multiracial heritages, including Barack Obama and no doubt Michelle Obama they are not just one race, they are many. So I was tickled to see many who were saying that he was not Black or Black enough.
Well my goodness would that not pertain to millions of us in this country who are multiracial? I would think so.
I felt like in some instances there were people who could not see a black man in the president's seat so they had to take away from his rich African heritage to make themselves feel better about a brother in the White House. Sad.
I think they should get over it.
I don't think there is one person really in this country who can claim one race and if there are, I think it is wonderful. If not it's still wonderful. We are people, one nation, who should stand behind this man and help make the change in this country that needs to be made to make this country better.
I have an idea why don't we just be like crayons in a box and just lay there...... together?
How bout that?
Congratulations to Obama and to all of us making this change possible.
Let the work begin.
Til Next Time
Mamma
1 comment:
Amen!
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