Saw a discussion on this earlier and thought it sounded good!
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They were discussing this morning about how a black version of anything they were excluded from came to be as a form of resisting oppression. I grew up far removed from people who didn’t look like me and really still live in a white majority area, so it was pretty fascinating for me to learn about these things that never came up where I was at. It engenders complex feelings - it’s a sad sort of nonsense that made it necessary to my thinking, but it’s impressive and joyful in its conception and what it offered. A safe harbor of freedom and humanity against a storm. I get what the woman is saying in this trailer about how that closeness and strength can be lost with integration, but it puts me in mind of what I’ve observed when I have been places that were more diverse - integration really only seems to go so far. I think regardless of what a divide is, be it the color of skin, the culture, religion, class, sometimes even gender, humans are always most comfortable with those they share their experience with aside from those times magic happens and we just find a soul we recognize underneath all that other stuff. So I can see maybe a dilution of sorts when a completely parallel society is no longer required, but I don’t think that community, the safe harbor of that shared experience can ever be truly stamped out. I dunno. I just like what makes me think about things. 🤷♀️
They were discussing this morning about how a black version of anything they were excluded from came to be as a form of resisting oppression. I grew up far removed from people who didn’t look like me and really still live in a white majority area, so it was pretty fascinating for me to learn about these things that never came up where I was at. It engenders complex feelings - it’s a sad sort of nonsense that made it necessary to my thinking, but it’s impressive and joyful in its conception and what it offered. A safe harbor of freedom and humanity against a storm. I get what the woman is saying in this trailer about how that closeness and strength can be lost with integration, but it puts me in mind of what I’ve observed when I have been places that were more diverse - integration really only seems to go so far. I think regardless of what a divide is, be it the color of skin, the culture, religion, class, sometimes even gender, humans are always most comfortable with those they share their experience with aside from those times magic happens and we just find a soul we recognize underneath all that other stuff. So I can see maybe a dilution of sorts when a completely parallel society is no longer required, but I don’t think that community, the safe harbor of that shared experience can ever be truly stamped out. I dunno. I just like what makes me think about things. 🤷♀️
