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I will never forget the time I finished doing a public 2 and a half hour reading of my second book “Lucid” sweating shaky nervous It is sheerly and purely an inner dialogue of my own inner blackness and whiteness arguing about what state I am in It is nothing to do with how the audience constructs or interprets the politics of race A man taught to be caucasian from a young age says, “what about all the good things white people have done?” A black woman in the front row immediately turns to him “This is not about that! I am from Alabama 60 years old. I have family members I watched get lynched family members that burned in agony in churches I cried tears on their bodies! I felt the immense heat from crosses burning on my neighbors yards we had to have patrols go out armed to protect our people. I did not come here to hear about whiteness You can go anywhere for that not here this is what I need to hear you want to hear about whiteness you are in the wrong place" She calmly looked at me and smiled "Thank you so much for doing this here."
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Jul 17, 2016
Jul 17, 2016 at 9:49 AM UTC
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I will never forget the time I finished doing a public 2 and a half hour reading of my second book “Lucid” sweating shaky nervous It is sheerly and purely an inner dialogue of my own inner blackness and whiteness arguing about what state I am in It is nothing to do with how the audience constructs or interprets the politics of race A man taught to be caucasian from a young age says, “what about all the good things white people have done?” A black woman in the front row immediately turns to him “This is not about that! I am from Alabama 60 years old. I have family members I watched get lynched family members that burned in agony in churches I cried tears on their bodies! I felt the immense heat from crosses burning on my neighbors yards we had to have patrols go out armed to protect our people. I did not come here to hear about whiteness You can go anywhere for that not here this is what I need to hear you want to hear about whiteness you are in the wrong place" She calmly looked at me and smiled "Thank you so much for doing this here."
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Jul 17, 2016
Jul 17, 2016 at 9:49 AM UTC
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