i've been called so many different things by so many people men and wimmin. dry as biscuits people. boring people. scared people. bland people. intimidated people. threatened people. insecure people...
"nice" people.
yaaawwwwwnnnn....
this gets to be so tiresome. but i guess there is no small supply of these people on the planet.
arrogant. formidable. powerful. difficult. scary. intense. rude. mean. not nice. bitter. angry.
these are the ones that spring to mind but trust me there have been more.
situated where i am in this society and understanding where most of these people have been located - amerikkkan, male, middle-class, popular, employed in community, light, white, birthed here on these lands...
privileged but not able to make the links between their perceptions and what is here.
the significance of what they say is not lost on me. 'though clearly it may be lost on them. so sad.
when they choose their descriptors, when they lob/shoot their well chosen verbal grenades, for most people who rely on those they know to explain, introduce, filter what/who they know, their words, their single stories are the beginning and end of story.
when they speak and expect not just to be heard but to be believed i understand that this is what they're really saying...
Missy Elliot - She's a Bitch by welcomeback
if what you're reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you, emboldens you, pushes you, galvanizes you, discomfits you, tickles you, enrages you so much that you find yourself returning again and again...then link me.
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