Frenemy; or The Snare of the Rainbow Glare
TWP Tilden
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Copyright 2021 by TWP Tilden
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The
white homosexual
is not my ally because:
- It/Them (since grammatical pronouns are supposedly
antiquated, triggering, toxic constructs) never see me as an ally.
- Color obsession is not color-blindness.
- Allies exercise partnerships & pacts that
are mutually beneficial towards survival and protection.
- There is invariably a power
dynamic, glaringly inequitable and saliently eroticized;
the very – and loudly taunted –
alliance is fueled on perpetuation of this imbalance.
- It/Them very seldom have (other) black friends and
very, very, very seldom outside of sexual relations.
- To it/them I am inescapably
foreign: a fetish, experiment, pet or token; I am “well-spoken/
-mannered/ -behaved”, and, if I be regarded truly outstanding, “not
like the rest of them.” I am special because it/them confessed it so to me.
- Loving black culture is not the same thing as
liking, or even knowing, black people.
- Mimicking our black women is not cute or endearing.
It is far from cool.
- It/Them can cannot be
homosexual. It/Them can change their stripes (and
often do). Conversely, my black, black body, covered head to sole,
front to back, and masks to soul is immutable now and forever.
- It/Them know everything and
remain irrepressibly – genuinely! – surprised that I know anything
outside of the context of being black.
- It/Them don't not fall far from the tree ---
contrary to what I am supposed to believe.
- It/Them find it hard to believe
integration is no all-consuming goal of mine; nor interracial
relations, a secret preference. How one registers with what visible
pains it/them digest the unfathomable one-sidedness of that particular curiosity!
- I am expected – encouraged – to stop assigning
worth to, or taking pride in, the only aspect of me which is valued by
it/them.
- But, ultimately, at the core,
it's that the homosexual “community” tries too damn hard to convince me
that it is the ally of my people. To this trending little white lie I
answer, #Sorrynotsorry.
I
wrote this piece to encourage us to see the world from different
angles and "another's shoes," ones which I'm sure scant few
have previously imagined, let alone considered.
A
native Hoosier, author is a graduate of Wabash College (IN). He has
traveled the world as a backpacker and been in many unusual and
memorable situations. Other than globetrotting on curiosity and
one-way tickets, his life is pretty unremarkable and
uncomplicated. But he endeavors to write. Mr Tilden lives in
Spain with his ex-wife and their cluttered desks and fragrant lemon
trees?
(Unless
you
type
the
author's name
in
the subject
line
of the message
we
won't know where to send it.)
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