This post in CC got me to thinking of this question.
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Y'know, that "BGLO members only " mentality reminds me of W.E.B. DuBois:
It is a peculiar sensation, double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his twoness, an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled striving; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
That's what it's kind of like for me as a Black member of an NPC sorority around these parts, except most of the scrutiny doesn't come from NPC folk.
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Do you ever feel like you have to "choose sides" or an allegiance, if you will, between being black or something else? For example, between being black or an American - being black or following Christ - being black or being a member of an NPC/IFC - etc.
I know in my own experiences, there are some people that can't understand why I choose to take up the cause of Christ as opposed to giving in for what is best for blacks (ie supporting a candidate that believes in ideas/policies that go against my convictions as a believer), so I am interesed in seeing if anyone else has/is experiencing this?
