Commentary on
http://blackyouthproject.com/keep-white-friends-partners-away-black-pride-events/
by HARI ZIYAD
There is so much (everything) WRONG about that article and the concepts within it’s hard to decide where to begin.
I’ll start with my conclusion with but two of Christoper Hitchens’ words that put the article to absolute SHAME in that the article is in complete opposition to “Human Solidarity”.
Yes, society is fragmented, largely based on insignificant differences and these fragments are marginalized by the dominant ‘white’ fragment that seems to think of itself that whiteness is special and an accomplishment attained intentionally prior to birth.
No, complexion is not an accomplished goal. Each human’s born characteristics are the result of a near infinite combination of random chance occurrences that all had to occur before (mostly, long before) birth, the odds against any specific individual’s existence are so astronomically high as to be near impossible, yet here we all are, every single individual of humanity.
Back to the article.
To those of the LGBTQ fragment, and, as the article is aimed at the sub-fragment LGBTQ of color what is the ultimate goal you seek as humans?
Do you seek the end of marginalization, acceptance by and into the larger whole as born the way you are and therefore natural and normal and deserving endowed with the same rights and responsibilities as every one else in ‘Human Solidarity’?
Or
Do you seek exclusiveness, woe is me marginalization, continued intolerant discrimination as ‘other’, ‘different’? You can have that as your predecessors had, merely close the closet door behind you when you go back in.
And, I’m belly laughing over the racist white trash cracker culture appropriation written in that article; “One of my best friends is white”, I shit you not, reading that is hilarious.
So, where does the author of the piece stand? In support of exclusiveness, divisiveness and own branded bigotry?
Or
Questing for ‘Human Solidarity’?
Um, I just glanced the Twitter profile of Hari Ziyad at
and his linked account, @RaceBaitR at
I have yet more words to write.
First off, your dark complexion is no more special than my pale.
Second, it’s long past time the N word was expunged from everyone’s vocabulary. The N word says that ol’ Massa Whitey slaveowner and Massa Oberseer were right, we alls are nothin’ but shiftless, good for nuthin’ sub-humans, and then high fiveing each other in agreement and embracement of the concept.
Seriously? WTF?
Take your race baiting cards, and no, don’t shove them, rather eat them, digest them and void them out as the shit they are.
Your race baiting only serves continued divisiveness, exclusion and own brand bigotry counter to ‘Human Solidarity’.
There is ONLY ONE Human Race, grasp this.
Black Lives Matter, as much as a pink skin who cannot walk in your shoes can, I GET IT and I support the movement. Exclusion of and rejection of support of those like me serves your cause not at all, what part of ‘exclusion’ eludes you?
I have as many questions as you, and as few solutions.
It is very clear to me that continued exclusion will never ever lead to harmonious inclusion.
And, just in case the word ‘tolerance’ is forthcoming in reply, spare everyone the insult, tolerance is almost as far from Human Solidarity as exclusion is.
Exclusion?
or
Solidarity?
Please choose, and please choose solidarity, the sooner, the better.
Ron D’vivre
“If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.”
― Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice