That's what always gets things done, the siren's call of kinship and tribe. When you add the conspicuous marker of skin color and the conspicuous markers of verbal and gestural signal behavior to the history of oppression, it is a very powerful thing. Quite evidently a thing to cry for, a sense of family and belonging. As time goes on and nobody has actually oppressed you, after you've gotten plenty of love through reverse discrimination, this gets tougher. I think of Glen's children, who have to substitute the oppression of perhaps their greatgrandparents, the urban poor of dark skin color, or the wretched of Palestine, in order to salvage the feel. "There's one thing you can't lose, and it's that feel" (Tom Waits)
That's what always gets things done, the siren's call of kinship and tribe. When you add the conspicuous marker of skin color and the conspicuous markers of verbal and gestural signal behavior to the history of oppression, it is a very powerful thing. Quite evidently a thing to cry for, a sense of family and belonging. As time goes on and nobody has actually oppressed you, after you've gotten plenty of love through reverse discrimination, this gets tougher. I think of Glen's children, who have to substitute the oppression of perhaps their greatgrandparents, the urban poor of dark skin color, or the wretched of Palestine, in order to salvage the feel. "There's one thing you can't lose, and it's that feel" (Tom Waits)