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I have great respect for ALT’s Senior Editor Mollena Williams
in many aspects and on many levels. I can certainly acknowledge
and admire the courage required to broach the sensitive
subject of “race play” in her recent editorial [editorial
504 INTERVIEW; "BDSM and playing with Race "
Sr. Editor Mollena Williams interviewed by Andrea Plaid]
Parts 1 and 2. This is a hard subject for me. My own particular
brand of "PC" dictates that someone’s kink
is their kink and that is to be respected. We cannot control
the way we are wired or what flips that switch in us. If I were
to be pilloried for all the sick shit that goes through my
“heads, ” it would be a worse tribulation for me than have
been the inequities I have endured due to my race.
That said, whatever turns someone on, that hurts no one
else, is none of my business unless I am invited to join.
However, I'm just not so sure that “race play” hurts
no one else. Furthermore, I am not sure if "race play"
alleviates the human need to be culturally and/or ethnically
superior by working through it in the realm of fantasy,
or simply perpetuates this flaw in the human design that
has produced the ugliest of atrocities in our history.
In part 1 of the interview Mollena suggests that fear is
what makes the practice of race “play” taboo. I beg to differ
with she whom I hold in high esteem. I simply do not have the
heart to “play” at that which is still so real in the human
psyche and is still a real live affliction suffered by many.
This to me is like picking at a wound that you know is infected.
It is like giving children toy guns to pretend to shoot each
other while bombarding them with images of feigned brutality
and bloodshed and then wondering why we live in an increasingly
violent society.
There is a paradoxical dichotomy within me that comes part
and parcel with my African-American heritage. It is the
need to learn the lessons, reap the benefits and garner
the strength that seethes within my culture without dragging
along the anger spawned of the pain, despair, degradation
and indignities which are linked inexorably with being
black in America for my generation and the generations
before me. Starting with not knowing from which African
nation and culture the African contingent of my family
actually came from, to being the target of racial epithets
right here on our beloved ALT and having the powers that
be fail to enforce their own rules regarding racial attacks,
my race, my family and I have fought to attain this small
and tenuous measure of equality.
My job as a human is to distill the power and strength of character
that can be derived from a culture achieving this new-found
equality while casting aside the bitter dregs of anger
which can only impede further progress despite its justification.
The struggle is to identify with my African-American heritage
without being defined by it. The struggle to be “just a man”
while both holding on to and letting go of the experience
upon which that man is built. Many have died and suffered
to make this paradox possible. It took quite a bit of soul
searching to come to these conclusions and I will not have
that which we have struggled for generation to attain reduced
to a sex toy.
Mo goes on to say that her pussy is not interested in uplifting
the race. I am not trying to “hate” on Mo but admitting freely
to thinking with her genitals on issues of such import supports
racist stereotypes and smacks of the “I’m gonna get mine, ”
slave culture mentality that continues to plague our proud
race. I know that Mo was trying to be humorous but this statement
is akin to a patriot who is willing to sellout his country
for a blow job.
Miss Williams further suggests that the subjugation of
a race or culture is a part of human nature; an assertion
with which I am prepared to agree. I would even go one step
further as to say that Dominance and submission is a part
of our animal nature; That part of us that so many wish to
deny and yet never can quell. We as humans are the only creatures
on this planet with the intellect to govern the instincts
we have found to be ineffective, effectively bringing
about and guiding our own intellectual evolution. It is
this need to rule our own passions that has spawned the concepts
of law and morality.
The overwhelming majority of the world’s governments
have deemed racial discrimination to be unlawful and amoral
and for good reason. To play with race in this fashion is
to spit in the face of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Malcolm
X and the thousands of black soldiers who fought in American
wars as men only to come “home” to be treated as they were
less than other men who did not do as much for their country.
Abolition of racial and cultural discrimination is the
only way to purge it from society. To make a game out of our
on going struggle for sexual satisfaction is to make a mockery
of all efforts toward that end.
I want to play Thomas Jefferson and this time correct my
bad habits. Unfortunately, Thomas Jefferson did not have
the BDSM community to advise him. So in summary, we are back
to the major premise here that we need to organize the legislation
to create the Department of BDSM--a major advisory arm
to keep presidents and electorate from making the sexually
warped decisions of recent Administrations. Can you dig
it?
that wound. You can't heal something in your soul by
letting it remain in its original state of pain. It has to
be touched. Otherwise it will never heal.~
The whole interview should be read by all of us.
Your quote above is so true! Thanks for sharing.
:X ~Kat~