Whew. Long time no post! Well lately I've been finding myself in many debates about race and the power structure that exists today. I couldn't help but to realize that our society is so race conscious, in such a complex way that we do not even realize it--not to be confused with ignorance or racism but we have been tailored into a society where our differences are exemplified and our sameness nullified.
Now I'm sitting here in deep thought trying to write this paper about the Black presence in sports and whether sports have been used as a key to Black freedom or a pacifier in the midst of White supremacy. Keep in mind freedom and white supremacy are vague terms left to your own imagination to define.
Anyway, back to the whole idea of race consciousness. When Obama begun to surface in the media as a up-and-coming candidate for the new election it brought about a whole disturbance throughout the world. It was like this person, well...."Black man" was coming in attempting to disrupt not only the political but the social paradigms that have been in place for so long. Even me, laughed at such a prospect in the name of trying to see the reality of things. If you asked me then, I put my money on Hilary Clinton because never could I see them allowing such a "disturbance" to occur. A women, preferably Caucasian would become a presidential candidate before a man of any Black descent would. But as the presidential elections developed I began to realize how conscious of race I actually was and I applauded Obama for such undertakings. 'Whaddaya know'... in the end, he won.
Generally speaking, I find that throughout time African-Americans have always struggled to prove things to the "White man". And Blacks "proved" that indeed a Black man could be president. Okay....so my next thought here is now that they have stated their claim, what are African-Americans doing right now to improve their conditions within their homes, family structures, and communities? I know they say the "whole is better than the sum of its parts" but we must never lose focus on the defined entities of day-to-day life...the kind of things we must return to at the end of the day.
Well I'm jumping left and right when it comes to this race thing, but it just happens that a lot is on my mind. But going back to Point A, I believe that there will always be that unconscious conscious awareness of race if you catch my jist...lol. It doesn't help that they ask for your race on every application you write (forget that whole spheal about 'oh its for statistics'). But there's so many points I could write about race but I'll just save it for the paper I'm SUPPOSED to be writing, which is becoming very taxing. But its just a thought...just a thought. Happy reading :)
Now I'm sitting here in deep thought trying to write this paper about the Black presence in sports and whether sports have been used as a key to Black freedom or a pacifier in the midst of White supremacy. Keep in mind freedom and white supremacy are vague terms left to your own imagination to define.
Anyway, back to the whole idea of race consciousness. When Obama begun to surface in the media as a up-and-coming candidate for the new election it brought about a whole disturbance throughout the world. It was like this person, well...."Black man" was coming in attempting to disrupt not only the political but the social paradigms that have been in place for so long. Even me, laughed at such a prospect in the name of trying to see the reality of things. If you asked me then, I put my money on Hilary Clinton because never could I see them allowing such a "disturbance" to occur. A women, preferably Caucasian would become a presidential candidate before a man of any Black descent would. But as the presidential elections developed I began to realize how conscious of race I actually was and I applauded Obama for such undertakings. 'Whaddaya know'... in the end, he won.
Generally speaking, I find that throughout time African-Americans have always struggled to prove things to the "White man". And Blacks "proved" that indeed a Black man could be president. Okay....so my next thought here is now that they have stated their claim, what are African-Americans doing right now to improve their conditions within their homes, family structures, and communities? I know they say the "whole is better than the sum of its parts" but we must never lose focus on the defined entities of day-to-day life...the kind of things we must return to at the end of the day.
Well I'm jumping left and right when it comes to this race thing, but it just happens that a lot is on my mind. But going back to Point A, I believe that there will always be that unconscious conscious awareness of race if you catch my jist...lol. It doesn't help that they ask for your race on every application you write (forget that whole spheal about 'oh its for statistics'). But there's so many points I could write about race but I'll just save it for the paper I'm SUPPOSED to be writing, which is becoming very taxing. But its just a thought...just a thought. Happy reading :)
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