the whole "congratulations" thing just did not occur to me. sorry, but that is SO WEIRD. it must be seriously effing awkward for you. (>.<)
there must be some other element to this as well, though (in terms of what the guy who wrote the NYT article was talking about), that goes beyond "black being the new black." like what he said about feeling like the invisible man suddenly become visible was very close to it... as if, now that we have a black president and a shift in the racial power dynamic that has historically existed in the white house, maybe a lot of non-blacks have been forced to finally "see" black people in a way they never had before—i.e. as equal fellow human beings rather than simply the "unknowable other"?
which is not to sound like i think any of this is magical (LOL, well, in the sense of like a magical fix for the deep-rooted racial issues in the US). also, that might have been super inarticulate, since i haven't had enough coffee and it's difficult to articulate super complicated things in lj comments anyway.
no, wait, it's difficult to articulate them at ALL. XP
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Date: 2008-11-17 07:32 pm (UTC)there must be some other element to this as well, though (in terms of what the guy who wrote the NYT article was talking about), that goes beyond "black being the new black." like what he said about feeling like the invisible man suddenly become visible was very close to it... as if, now that we have a black president and a shift in the racial power dynamic that has historically existed in the white house, maybe a lot of non-blacks have been forced to finally "see" black people in a way they never had before—i.e. as equal fellow human beings rather than simply the "unknowable other"?
which is not to sound like i think any of this is magical (LOL, well, in the sense of like a magical fix for the deep-rooted racial issues in the US). also, that might have been super inarticulate, since i haven't had enough coffee and it's difficult to articulate super complicated things in lj comments anyway.
no, wait, it's difficult to articulate them at ALL. XP