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There is a conversation we must have about the ethic of being black in this country. We have to understand deeply the social construction of blackness and concomitant annihilation.
Of course this is not just about our (in)ability to lift ourselves from the demeaning cultural oppression but also about our re-imagination of the ‘idea of life’ and blackness itself, as a decisive step in the pursuit of cultural freedom.
What does it mean to be black in this country, besides being poor? Does it also mean taking a child to the tavern (coz I needed beer & there was no other person to care for the child)? Does it also means I can spend all I can on slay queens before paying maintenance for my child?
Nihilism has become a central feature of our cultural existence: we must break free from that. We have assumed Maxim Gorky’s (in Life of a Useless Man) characterisation of what it means to be human - nothingness: again we must break free from that.
We can’t just lament capital’s overbearing influence of what it means to ‘live’ without a subversive (against capitalism’s construction of blackness) imagination of what it should mean to be black as defined by our own reimagined existence.
I’m deeply concerned about our future.
I’m deeply concerned about our future.
