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.

And if you don't want to explain
shit to kids, you are kind of fucked. That is your job as a
parent.

My thought is if we 'ban' any type of play that might
hurt someone (especially someone NOT involved) then we
would have to ban our lifestyle entirely. Master/Slave,
D/s, S&M, daddy/daughter (or Mommy/baby) play,
all of it. There is NOTHING that we engage in that doesn't
hold the possibility... even the probability of hurting
someone who doesn't understand what it is we do.. or
why we do it.

I very much enjoyed this article too. I agree with foulmama.
I also think it's a crying shame about the knee jerk
reactions, that's disappointing to see.



Looking forward to the next


:) ~Kat~

I'd agree with foulmama

very interesting article. i look forward to more cool things
from ALT

i got to say it was interesting to see reactions off others
to this, cant beat a good debate, lol it certainly got
the passions going in advice line

I read your article, I have to say what a lot of bollocks.
Sorry Mo, but that’s what I read, a load of bollocks.


Quote: Mo: Mo: The scene where she strips for him, ” and
it is kinda awkward but sexy, and she does it because he wants
her to?


Andrea Plaid: Right.


Mo: That, to me, is BDSM represented in the way I see it.


I ask: Do you really think of stripping as BDSM? Please explain when stripping where the Bondage comes
in, or the Domination, for that matter the saido masochism,
I’m still laughing.


You also go on to say, That you think blacks topping whites
is pay back. Therefore it must follow in your mind that Whites
topping blacks is going back to the slave days. That’s logical
isn't it.


And please remember where the slaves came from. Yes from
the black traders of Africa selling them for one reason
or another, basically criminals and so on, or just disruptive
people including children, to whites trader who transported
them across the Atlantic. (Facts that you can look up.)






I have to say the whole article is extremely poor, with little
knowledge of race play, or understanding of BDSM. If you
were on the other side of the pond you would have a totally
different outlook I think. Just ask any black over here
and listen to their reply. Yes I do know blacks as friends, I’m not isolated or insular
but their views are different to yours.


Its a shame I'm restricted from joining the discussion
by our race laws.

I've enjoyed this, thanks! ALT has good writers

I have touched on this issue in my own blog after a guy asked
me on IM could he call me his 'niggerslut' during
play. touchy stuff, but i see nothing wrong with race play..whatevr
it is..i do see something wrong with the need to bring back
demeaning words to that play or have a handle that belittles
any race. Now BRIAN i have lived in europe and my first ltr
in bdsm was with a french Master in france. your view of slavery
being one group of africans selling to white slave transporters
is pure revisionism. Like the american indian whites used power over them to
seperate the tribal connections and some of what you mention
did occur. but the majority of african american slaves
were stolen from areas close to the coastline...which
may explain why pregnant women were taken. In african culture
pregnant women were not traded from one tribal group to
another. the reason being it was a fear that the gods would
curse the crops. Also most black americans genetically
connect with western coast african lines. This is not a
part of european history or american but the study of pre
christian african religious belief. I have a white sub
who is Irish and as an Englishman you dont even want to go
there. We need to remember do what you please as long as no
one is harmed..as an individual or as a group.

I've enjoyed this. Bring more!!

very intresting id like to read more