Friday, December 05, 2003
Play the "I am self" card
Michelle Meyers is telling it like it is. Or not. For the rest of this post, though, I'm just going to call her "Ms. Black" because that seems to be how she wants her identity perceived.
Regarding Devin Andre's well-played comment about "underrepresnted bitches," Ms. Black declares that "It’s just another racial slur." Underrepresented is a slur, people! Be careful! Nevermind that folks like Ms. Black seem to beg us to think of them as "underrepresented." She uses the "slur" four times.
[I]f we continue to let such insensitive flippancies... slide from our elected leaders, we accept these leaders’ irreverence for political consciousness.
So? We should be irreverant of political consciousness. "Political consciousness" doesn't even mean anything.
On an individual level we have to change the way we think about each other and the way we perceive our individual responsibility within the system. Changing the system starts with a collective understanding of what the system is and how it’s self-operated and perpetuated.
On an individual level, we need to reach a collective understanding... umm...
As the only black writer for the Daily Cal this semester, I accepted the responsibility of representing the black voice and educating readers about controversial racial issues.
Wow. I hope black folks know that they don't have any individuality anymore. Ms. Black seems to be speaking for all of them. And they all seem to agree about exactly the same things. Or, alternatively, Ms. Black is full of shit when she says she can speak for an entire race. The "black voice" is nothing. Every individual has a voice, and Ms. Black's voice is her own. If blacks agree with her, it's on an individual basis, not as a racial collective.
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