An old story. Dark & Light Merge. Time honored omissions. Keep truth buried until guilt
or death reveals it.
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by Joe B. Lingering Legacies On bottom right of San Jose News I read about the Late South Carolina’s Senator Strom Thurmond’s hidden Black daughter being acknowledged after decades of rumors. U.S. Attorney for South Carolina’s Strom Thurmond Jr. Now folks can you understand why Black people have lingering doubts,fears,about white folks in general? The curse of slaver stained both master, mistress,slave woman and male. Remember it was the horny master sneaking into a slave’s shack for black berry juice not her going up to the big house. Some advantages could be had by sleeping with the master as in less work in the fields for her man, child,or being sold but this didn’t work lover’s, son’s,daughters,were still sold to settle gambling or to pay for real estate incurred debts. As for Black males whites projected their lusts onto them for their own misdeeds hence placing White Women on pedestals while shacking up with slaves. I’m sure some white women took delicious revenge with one or more male slaves. How could they not they can do nothing against boy friends or husbands. What better way for both revenge and resolve than to satisfy themselves with slaves who would not believed on pain of castration, death or both. Women who were successful in their dalliances of forbidden fruit kept their secrets to the grave maybe selling lover’s or had them killed ridding themselves of the problem,a problem her own heated loins created! Is it any wonder why Black folks don’t completely trust the Caucasoid race? At least the true humans hunting buffalo, dear,these men and women chose, welcomed and loved runaway slaves,Asiatic, Pacific Islanders too join in friendship and marriage even when laws against it are quickly penned. When blacks,reds, browns mesh bodies and minds creating beautiful rainbow children. Its Whites who’s set up arbitrary constructs of beauty and intelligence. Being susceptible as any human to constant negative reinforcement it’s a wonder most blacks don’t commit suicide because as a people we’ve been literally led to slaughter,accused of being cursed by our very skin, called ugly not sensuously kissed or too well loved by the sun in its younger days and in middle age still loves us. The Strom Thurmond story only illustrates lingering legacies still hidden either by shame, economic reasons,spite, envy,or family pride. Anyone have secrets in their family tree? (one never knows until the question is asked) Email: askjoe@poormagazine.org |