Strife Oppression 2 « Black Looks
Posted by poldreams on May 4, 2009
Dear Eulij,
I cant say I hate you. Even though in this mundane world of ours, I would not have had it any other way; I so have reason to or so I can sometimes think but what would that be saying about me? The question is why do you hate me so much? I remember the scenario that played itself out at the Tish Kent station there I was waiting for Kariso when you and Nfifi turned up on the concourse. You saw me as soon as you turned into the station almost as if it were our first meeting as usual you drew a bank on seeing me as if I wasn’t even there. Still hatefully, angry for reasons you don’t care to share but I have no doubt that you’ve read Janice Raymond’s take on transsexuality (especially, where you’re concerned, if your victim happens to be black, free thinking and eloquent with it you waste no time) following that uncritical bandwagon of anti-sisters known as the “separatist” and their fundamentalist credo. I might well have been the proverbial needle in a haystack as far as you cared. You even alerted Nfifi, whom I have to say wanted to say hello as her disposition seemed to suggest but there was no way you were going to allow that. It’s a shame she thought she needed your permission to say a simple, “Hi!” Alone she would have been able to do her will but with you; her incongruent indecision proved fatal.
Your poetry has experienced a shift in focus. I notice that you no longer regard race as an issue; it seems that the focus of your poetry is gender from what I can tell, once said a retiring lecturer of mine when I approached him as a possible referee for my application for a PHD in English. What he didnt realise was that the perceived shift wasnt so much a move from one agency to another but an inter-subjective progression of ever moving narratives; mine! If I maybe so daring as to take a stance for Africa and those in the Diaspora after all we’ve be marginalised enough. Somehow he (that lecturer of old) always assumed that I might end up as an Afrocentric scholar but he could not have been further from the truth. I was very aware of our suffering as a people but this debate is different. The LGBTI is almost non-existent to the mindset of African’s at home or those abroad unless we are of the community ourselves. This is stifling in the sense that it seems to speak of a neo-colonial fervour Africa inherited from its colonial masters which is undeniable in their demeanour towards us.
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