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Interests and hate indiscriminately, how rare it is that we attend to their other stories. In my early childhood I had been given affection by those who chose differently than what the order prescribed. I knew the prospect of love along with the intimacy of the Black and White South.
— May 25, 2022 03:30PM
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Jetaime
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He reminds me, a woman who has loved Black men, of how hard it is to disentangle desire from the cruelty of the social order, of relations of power and domination. How hard it is to get truly close. Can anyone be vulnerable in all of this, safely? I shied away from his letters at first because they are hard to read. But they are truthful.
— May 25, 2022 03:36PM
Jetaime
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I thought, sitting next to Tom, about the cost of writing the White Southerner out of the freedom movement story. Yes, there were many more who taunted and terrorized, more still who silently accepted racial terrorism. But what possibility was foreclosed by not seeing the fullness of what could have been, and what could still be. For all the smug assessments of how poor white Southerners vote against their own..
— May 25, 2022 03:27PM
Jetaime
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The South is extremely diverse and complex. It is multilingual, speaks different dialects, and has had different histories. But we do call certain things Southern in a broad way, some because they are quintessential and some because the être a marker of "not that," as in Northen, which really means not Midwestern, Northeastern, mid Atlantic, Northwestern, Californian, or far Southwest in general.
— May 25, 2022 02:20PM
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Some monuments are not human likeness but the persistence of creation of creation. Some monuments are destructive or ambiguous. Some are aspiration as well as recognition.
— May 25, 2022 01:54PM
Jetaime
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But I must also express outrage that as an American I am expected to digest the founding fathers venom casually, as though it is merely a part of the nations genealogy and not its soul.
— Mar 13, 2022 07:52AM
Jetaime
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The matter isn’t simply about anger, resentment, misunderstanding, or saying the wrong or right words. It es earthquake, fire, unmarked graves, and ash. Over and over again. You might think you know, but you probably don’t.
— Mar 13, 2022 07:43AM
Jetaime
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And in our lives, an intimate detente remains. A polite tension in top, a flame below. This might sound unfamiliar to you, but if you think for a moment about how conversations about race are approached in your life, the tentativeness and the terror that the conflagration might hit, you’ll see it much the same. Shame and rage collide. You might not understand why that is.
— Mar 13, 2022 07:41AM
Jetaime
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It really isn’t a regional story so much as a National one and a historic one. But the sweetest of the sweet tooth’s grew down here in part because of how the land was organized by deprivation even when what it yields as abundant. Slave labor, barely free labor, and the land itself were all worms to their limits. Something sweet gives you a little piece. Or peace.
— Mar 11, 2022 06:49PM
Jetaime
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According to epidemiologists and physicians. Southerners weigh too much, have too much tooth decay, eat too much fat, and drink too much coke. We cushion against hurt with abundance and love found in food. And we revel in taking up space with saying: "Only a dog wants a bone," we say. The constraints are rarely mentioned: overwork, poverty, the convenience of fast food. That’s all a part of the story.
— Mar 11, 2022 06:47PM
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May 25, 2022 03:40PM
Do you know surveys of porn searches show? They show interracial desire is deepest where Jim Crow was strongest. The social order we occupy shapes the erotica of our lives. Shame keeps us from telling the truth about it. We want to say that the institutionalized rape of the plantation was back then, but it reaches so close to here and now, through the Jim Crow era, the rape of girls who cleaned homes, the gang rapes on country roads, that violent desire is thick in the air.
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