TheDarknessOfBeing2011
Introduction/Definition/etc
Another digression into Race, this time
off of a Smithsonian Natural History Museum,
or should I call it unNatural History?
as race was presented as a construct,
socially defined, not in scientific fact,
eventually science doesn't hold up
to it, evidence from the way the fellowship
was being run, not the presentation,
but the "worship" essentially segregating
peoples like me with disabilities and not
the same interests, a comment about
Thomas Jefferson , who had 200 slaves
going off into the history and ideas behind
that silenced?
Body
Went to a Fellowship service with the presentation on Race,
Smithsonian Institution's Natural History Museum end of the run
of traveling exhibit on race, as a social construct,
and the Latino presenter, to an almost always
all white audience, described his liking the people,
putting out Facebook friend invites, and not getting
accepted, and thinking about that and deciding
not to join the church... But another similar church
where music and more diversity was the norm,
was worth paying money towards. The beauty
of the music alone being not an accessory
but the main part, even without the talking/ sermon,
as better...
And the language, Aha moments,
words used to describe...
Personally, I find the worship directions offensive,
keep any thing to the end, essentially muzzling me
and people like me, depressed unhappy people who
go to get uplifted, as Everlast sings "Depends upon
where you start"...
And I started thinking of the terms used to describe
religion. Good is Light and White, Bad is Dark,
color used to describe happiness and sadness,
good and bad, and the talk of the concept of race
created to control and laws, stacks of money on display
in exhibit, of relative wealth of different races, huge piles
on white, little piles on black, and brown,
accumulated over the ages from laws in effect
for centuries? Thinking on a recent article in the
Express of the relative earnings of Tyler Perry
Jerry Bruchiemer (sp?) and Steven Speilberg, Perry wins,
as much more active, doing more films and TV series.
Not sure if Oprah was in there or not,
relative assets and interest vs income or whathaveyou...
As an adaptive mechanism, the body regulates
the vitamin D production by skin coloring, pigmentation,
melatonin, or similar, going from Africa, where
we all humans started, they say, going up to Norway
or something, skin would adapt, over time,
or genetics, only a few genes are different
say 8 in the hundreds that make up a person,
and wondering about a lot of stuff...
One question was "when did you started thinking
about Race, early experiences?"
I said nothing, thinking "Poets down here don't
write nothing at all, they just let it all be",
old song lyrics, somewhat amused at the experience,
a church with written vision of being diverse,
one person commented, like trying to be thin,
a vision, not necessarily a reality,
and just about everyone laughed, or so it seemed,
and putting money towards that,
as a community, not representing the local
neighborhood, language being one barrier,
Latinos speaking Spanish, I see posted signs all
over for Free English classes, but not the
other way around, the other direction, Learning Spanish,
costs, so left completely out of the conversations,
and management is predominantly Latino
and recently threatened me with poison,
the condiments, she said, should be poison,
the staff feeding me when I was out of money
for the month, at an annual community picnic,
only attending really because I could not afford to eat,
and then threatened, she told staff should poison me,
woman said she was just a volunteer
so I reported it, and they claim it was a joke,
something not taken seriously, so I'm just [ further ] crazy
for not wanting to be threatened, nor poisoned...
Long time ago, now over a year, I looked
at a local Latino paper and found only one thing
in it contained English, a Public Notice by
Government about something, required by law,
I guess. to a public record, all else in Spanish
and locally even apartment complexes notices in Spanish
and English, except the handwritten one
about a car window being broken out,
while my Motorcycle was totaled in the parking lot,
wouldn't it be good to have that in English too?
Knowing it was a trend/ local problem violence
like what had previously happened to my
hopes and dreams? Costing me mobility
freedom, and a life as FDR mentioned,
in his last two freedoms,
Freedom from Want and Freedom from Fear
though Freedom in the Great Depression
is not the same as freedoms now,
later presidents, not in wheel chairs
singed Civil Rights Acts, while disabled
are still excluded even from talking in that
fellowship service, about what freedoms they don't
have in their own expressions of religion,
or the lack thereof...
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