Are You Tragically Black?

TheEpitome1920 · #1 03-10-2005, 05:18 PM

I ran into this term and I wanted to pose this question to others.

Do you think being Black automatically means your life will be difficult?

reddawn18 · #2 03-10-2005, 06:14 PM

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Originally posted by TheEpitome1920
I ran into this term and I wanted to pose this question to others.

Do you think being Black automatically means your life will be difficult?

Personally, I think being black is beautiful and extra-ordinary experience but what is brings us down is how others in our race act. From "hood rats" to rappers, they portray that being black is the lowest form of human being.

Because of this preception, many blacks who can pass as something does. Its a shame to deny your identity because others make the race look bad.

Little32 · #3 03-10-2005, 06:43 PM

This is an interesting question.

I think that being black in America--heck in the world--means that you are going to face some obstacles that you would not otherwise face. Just like women, by virtue of gender, have to face obstacles a man would not. I think to not acknowlegde this fact is naive and a little silly.

But life, in general, is hard. And I don't let the knowledge of those battles that loom before me distract or defeat me. So I would conclude that no, I am not tragic in my blackness.

1_zetaemerald · #4 03-10-2005, 07:25 PM

Epitome....you are simply amazing!!! If no one has told you that lately, then I will Soror!!!

Growing up in the South, it WAS hard to be BLACK because I had to work twice as hard to get the same level of respect from teachers, peers and other of the like. They didn't, couldn't or wouldn't accept the fact that I was beyond smarter than THEIR KIDS, but now looking back on it...

I AM NOT TRAGIC IN MY BLACKNESS! I have learn to love it and accept because this is who I am!!

Sistermadly · #5 03-10-2005, 09:13 PM

Little32 said it much better than I ever could.

UrbanizdSkillz · #6 03-10-2005, 09:42 PM

No, I'm not tragically black. I've come to learn that black truly is not the metaphor for less than.

MissMonika · #7 03-11-2005, 01:32 AM

This is one of my favorite poems. I agree with it 100%:

Who Can Be Born Black?~ by Mari Evans

Who
can be born Black
and not
sing
the wonder of it
the joy
the
challenge

And/to come together
in a coming togetherness
vibrating with the fires of pure knowing
reeling with power
ringing with the sound above sound above sound
to explode/in the majesty of our oneness
our comingtogether
in a comingtogetherness

Who
can be born
Black
and not exult!

Little32 · #8 03-11-2005, 11:21 AM

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Originally posted by Sistermadly
Little32 said it much better than I ever could.

Thank you

MissMonika, I like that poem.

TheEpitome1920 · #9 03-11-2005, 12:31 PM

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Originally posted by 1_zetaemerald
Epitome....you are simply amazing!!! If no one has told you that lately, then I will Soror!!!

Growing up in the South, it WAS hard to be BLACK because I had to work twice as hard to get the same level of respect from teachers, peers and other of the like. They didn't, couldn't or wouldn't accept the fact that I was beyond smarter than THEIR KIDS, but now looking back on it...

I AM NOT TRAGIC IN MY BLACKNESS! I have learn to love it and accept because this is who I am!!

Aww thanks Sawrah!

Lady of Pearl · #10 03-15-2005, 11:27 PM

The term tragically Black was associated with the literary period of the Harlem Renaissance and associated with those writers who wrote about the difficulties of Blacks in those times, other authors such as your Soror Zora Neale Hurston was taken to task because her novels weren't seen in that light and the perception was that her novels were of the Happy go lucky Black Person, to answer the question, no, my Blackness is what makes me Uniquely me!