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November 11, 2004
The End of My Blackness - Part 7
As of more or less now I am no longer a Black Republican. I'm just a Republican.
The reason is actually pretty simple. I am what I am, and I'm tired and bored of the novelty. Jumping up and down and saying I'm a black X is fun and interesting for a while, but it really is rather presumptuous. Not that I mind being prosumptuous or even provocative. It's just that in order to do so, you have to make a bunch of assumptions about people who are not like you or who you assume are like you. That's annoying and gauche. So I'm not going to do it any longer.
I'll still be reppin for the Old School, but depending on how soon I move to Beijing, that may become tired too. Hard to say at this moment.
Now this in no way affects any of the commitments I have to KIR, The Bear Flag League, VisionCircle, The Conservative Brotherhood or the California Republican Party itself. I'm simply excusing myself from the "I'm a Black Republican, what are you?" game.
Does that make sense?
Posted by mbowen at November 11, 2004 12:12 PM
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Makes perfect sense.
Posted by: P6 at November 11, 2004 08:31 PM
Makes perfect sense. The more we reject the labels that people try to push onto us, the better off we'll all be. After the criticism dies down everyone will realize the labels didn't do any good anyway.
Posted by: Angela Winters at November 12, 2004 11:00 AM
Makes sense.
Posted by: DarkStar at November 12, 2004 06:00 PM
Works for me.
Posted by: avery at November 15, 2004 08:16 AM