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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The Mickey Mouse looking “pigtails” or whatever you want to call them are especially lame.
And whites are the ones that abolished slavery in her homeland of Nigeria for literally the first time in its history.
But let's not get caught up in the left's black vs white narrative. The #1 things that recent white history brings to the table to make so many improvements in the past few centuries comes from our First and Second Great Awakenings. The left's attempts to undermine whites are really about undermining those of us who are still clinging bitterly to our Bibles (typed in my best Obama voice). They know that the worst that can happen to the left's power is if us Christians can push through another great awakening.
Don't be surprised if the next awakening has a lot of blacks and hispanics along with whites. Part of recognizing that is to recognize that the media is lying to us whites indirectly when it lies to blacks directly. Us whites hear the messages given to blacks that there's a white supremacist hiding under every bed, making us wonder how many blacks believe it. Do those blacks exist? Absolutely. Are those blacks the majority? I dunno. We've had reason to doubt fake movements that the media trumped up like everyone was part of it, only for us to learn it was just a loud few.
My suggestion is if you know blacks personally who are Christian in more than just name (they live it like they mean it), get to know them well enough to encourage each other to stick to Jesus like glue. The more blacks get to know whites who are good character and aren't racists, the easier it is for them to ignore the lying media's message that all whites are out to get them. If you feel like I'm preaching at you, I promise I say the same thing to the blacks in my circle of influence (I go to a church that's probably 70% black).
Abortionist kill blacks.
Agreed. It's also been my experience that blacks born and raised in Africa before they move here enjoy swimming as much as whites do. LOL
Blacks kill blacks.
“ But notice that “whiteness” is lowercased but a few sentences later she writes a capitalized “Blackness”.”
It’s possible Atlantic editor did that.
I see she’s being attacked as trans-phobic for not being insane.
I have a neighbor who is of Indian ancestry, but grew up in Louisiana. Knows Bobby Jindal. Speaks well-educated Southern English. Is more Southern than half the people in North Atlanta.
Shortly after the Black American George Floyd was murdered by a White police officer...
Total lies and misinformation.
I read no further.
Plus, the authoress of this pile of moldering fecal matter is a nit-witted moron.
To be Black in America was to feel bulldozed by the weight of history and stereotypes, to know that race was always a possible reason, or cause, or explanation for the big and small interactions that make up our fragile lives. To be Black was to realize that it was impossible for people to approach one another with the simple wonder of being human, without the specter of race lying somewhere in the shadows. To be Black was to feel, in different circumstances, frustration, anger, irritation, and wry amusement.Sadly overall true, under the ideology of the Left.
Another useless article in that leftist rag that pretends to be intellectual.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer, novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright of postcolonial feminist literature. …The USSR-inspired rhetoric is baked in.
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