The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #108931 Message #2271930
Posted By: Azizi
25-Feb-08 - 12:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: Mudcat Is Difficult For People Of Color
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Difficult For People Of Color
...it occurred to me what a pain in the ass it would be, if there was another declared person of colour posting on Mudcat, and they didn't agree with you! -John 'Giok' MacKenzie
John,
You may not have noticed Quarcoo's post to this thread on 25 Feb 08 - 10:28 AM.
My reading of Quarcoo's post was that it didn't agree with me. That's okay with me. In my Mudcat posts that address subjects of race, I usually try to emphasize the point that I am speaking for myself and not for all the African Americans or other Black people in the world. If that wasn't clear from my posts on this thread thus far, let me make that emphasis clear.
Also, fwiw, Quarcoo will confirm that he came to Mudcat as a result of first exchanging comments with me on my Cocojams website. I encouraged Quarcoo to visit and to join Mudcat. And I am glad that he did. I don't want any Yes brothas or Yes sistahs although there's no doubt that it would be nice to have some brothas and sistahs* on Mudcat who agreed with me sometimes about points that I made about race. And it would be good if some brothas and sistahs were to take the slack sometimes and I serve the role of back up support.
All this to say that regardless of whether they agree with me or not, I hope Mudcat will eventually have more people who acknowledge their race/ethnicity and share their perspectives about race/ethnicity when they feel it is pertinent.
Let me also say that I have personally tried to encourage other Black people to visit and post on Mudcat, but unfortunately, some haven't come, and those who have come haven't stayed. So at this time I want to give a shout out to Quarcoo and say thanks for seeing the value of this forum and sharing your voice with us.
* Brotha and sistah is used here in its African American colloquial form as a Black man and a Black woman.
Perhaps this goes without saying-but maybe not-and so I will say it now-there are times when I have found that I have much more in common with some non-Black individuals than with some Black individuals. Also, love knows no color.