Posted on 04/11/2024 12:30:44 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
America fascinated me as America fascinates every newcomer. Nineteen years old and fleeing the study of medicine at my Nigerian university, I longed to be a writer, to live a life of the mind. From my first days, I watched and read and learned. I was struck by the excess and the newness of America, by its flagrant contradictions, but mostly by how identity as an idea shaped so much of American life.......
Shortly after the Black American George Floyd was murdered by a White police officer, a woman told me she had just read Americanah. “You are a prophet; you foresaw this,” she said, as if my novel were preparation for the social and cultural reckoning about Blackness that began as a result of Floyd’s murder. And yet, even though mainstream women’s magazines now include braids in general roundups of style choices, the shift is hardly seismic. The Black experience is not yet so ordinary that it becomes, as the White experience has been for centuries in America, invisible, and therefore the norm. (I capitalize White in my writing, like Black, because to lowercase it perpetuates this idea of whiteness as the invisible norm.)
I did not permit myself to have high expectations for this novel, and so when it was embraced by so many, I experienced a unique gratitude. (Gratitude, when one does not expect to feel it, has an extra undertone of delight.) I still experience this today. I have heard from Nigerian American readers who were inspired to move back to Lagos, and Black women who decided to go natural. A professor who said that Americanah helped his students talk about anti-Blackness in other minority communities and colorism within the Black community.
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But notice that "whiteness" is lowercased but a few sentences later she writes a capitalized "Blackness". So just another black racist, yes I think it is racist to capitalize black and white differently, or to capitalize them at all.
BFL
Headline: “How I came to America to Enjoy Free Shit, and Wound Up With a Neo-Marxist Brainwashing and Learned How to Hate White Popo.”
Bitch comes, as a refugee, soaks up all the free bennies Uncle Sugar has to offer and then craps on MY country.
Racist bitch can go back to the s**thole she left.
Rachel Dolezal?
or
Talcum X?
“It was never easy for me…”
So many lies in one sentence. Floyd wasn’t murdered. The coroner was threatened. The cop was railroaded. Floyd died of a heart attack or drug overdose. Cops don’t kill blacks.
the invisible norm. wow, that’s got a sinister ring to it.
This strangely named individual came to these United States of America (invented by Whitemen) on an airplane (invented by Whitemen), writes in English (a language of Whitemen), on the internet (invented by Whitemen), and has the damnable temerity to complain about Whitemen.
She can quit appropriating my White culture and haul her sorry carcass back to Nigeria where she came from.
Stopped reading when George Floyd and murdered were used in the same sentence. Propaganda is not worth my reading time.
Go back!
This article is just a promotion for the book Americanah.
My story?
“”Black women who decided to go natural.””
Is THAT what those “hairdos” are? The more we see, the sillier they become. It seems they don’t have any problem coming up with the cost of having that done. I would imagine if they went BACK to Africa, they would be laughed at.
White as a social classification of humans is not a skin color or a race or a nationality. Just ask Irish, Eyetallians, and Jews to name a few. Who became white after generations of assimilation. White is anyone who holds to a way of life and beliefs. Just ask blacks and who “act white”.
Most of the fresh off the boat from Africa disparage the idea of being black.
Indians the ones from India are down right disturbing. Ever meet a very dark skinned Indian from India who speaks the Kings English right proper and has the stiff upper lip? Are they black?
How could Billy be the first black president?
W.E.B. DuBlanc
I love to read but that’s one I won’t have any problem passing up....
Most Nigerians come here and work. And generally have a low opinion of American born African-Americans. In my experience at least.
There are NO black people and NO white people. Shade of one’s skin is based on melanin, more you have the darker the shade, less you have the lighter the shade. Only racists use color to identify people. BTW, there is only one race, the human race. You are either human or not, and people using color to identify a race are NOT human. Maybe we should call these melanin rich people “melanin supremacists”
That's where I stopped reading because the rest is apparently based on this falsehood.
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