b) I LOVE your candor and clarity: thru your lens, how do you credit (?) Harris' Blackness, in the first place...o sea, how do you acknowledge that her Blackness is a part of the Blackness that creates Black Girl Magic? In the white supremacist hegemony called Western Civilization--of which the USA is a crucial constituent--where whiteness is programmed to be advantaged to/by the detriment of Blackness, her Blackness still must count for something, yes? Or no?
ThanQ Sis for putting this together, I'm all the way WIDDIT!! A few observations: a) I agree completely with your assessment re representing empires, but based on your logic wouldn't we also have to agree that the Obamas are not Black People Magic? Actually, whether or not we agree on the Obamas' magical Negro status, do you think we can still agree that Mme VP Harris would be a better option than either Fmr Prez Trump or RFK, Jr as the Commander-in-Chief of this country?
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Tammy! The question I want us all to interrogate is the values we associate with Black Girl/Black People Magic. For me it is more than power or status as defined by Empire. Ascending through the ranks of Empire and performing the tasks required by it is in fact antithetical to the "magic" of our ancestors.
As far as voting, I think even if one chooses to vote for Harris that should also be done with a sense of pragmatism rather than glee.
b) I LOVE your candor and clarity: thru your lens, how do you credit (?) Harris' Blackness, in the first place...o sea, how do you acknowledge that her Blackness is a part of the Blackness that creates Black Girl Magic? In the white supremacist hegemony called Western Civilization--of which the USA is a crucial constituent--where whiteness is programmed to be advantaged to/by the detriment of Blackness, her Blackness still must count for something, yes? Or no?
ThanQ Sis for putting this together, I'm all the way WIDDIT!! A few observations: a) I agree completely with your assessment re representing empires, but based on your logic wouldn't we also have to agree that the Obamas are not Black People Magic? Actually, whether or not we agree on the Obamas' magical Negro status, do you think we can still agree that Mme VP Harris would be a better option than either Fmr Prez Trump or RFK, Jr as the Commander-in-Chief of this country?
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Tammy! The question I want us all to interrogate is the values we associate with Black Girl/Black People Magic. For me it is more than power or status as defined by Empire. Ascending through the ranks of Empire and performing the tasks required by it is in fact antithetical to the "magic" of our ancestors.
As far as voting, I think even if one chooses to vote for Harris that should also be done with a sense of pragmatism rather than glee.
This hit the nail on the head! Thank you, thank you!
Thanks for reading!