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Posted by kayru99, Sun Mar-21-04 03:29 AM
What's funny is...this whole debate kinda proves the point that you can't isolate the personal from the political.

I don't know dhalgren or his wife, but she don't feel a connection with the place of her origin. Essentially, when a black person says that "i ain't no african" shit, what they are expressing is a belief that the history of their ancestors began with the slave trade. Dhalgren, that would be the equivalent of you saying you got no connection with, say, Abrahamic religion or the Medieval extermination of Jews during the Inquisition. Or any other Jewish person saying Judaism began in Germay in 1936.

I don't think you would be willing to shit on your history that way...and i don't think your wife would ever expect you to.

Oh well...