HOT TOPIC : Why Whites Should Stop Weighing in on Black Authenticity (1526 hits)
On Sunday, CNN premiered the fifth installment of Soledad O’Brien’s Black in America series, this time stepping back and posing the question “Who is Black in America?” in an exploration of racial identity. The special highlights how colorism and accusations of “acting White” have served as divisions within the Black community, causing feelings of rejection for many light-skinned Blacks and perpetuating discrimination against darker skinned Blacks. What might be most interesting about this conversation, however, is that it took place before a largely White audience who no doubt has their own idea of who is Black, regardless of what those interviewed had to say. While the report focuses on how the Black community defines Blackness, many White people have taken up the mantle of assessing Black bona fides as well. As someone whose identity has been called into question mostly by White people, I hope the report served as an opportunity for White America to stop weighing in on Black authenticity and start listening. White acquaintances have put me under the microscope to examine my hair, light skin, and features for inconsistencies with their notion of Blackness. They’ll declare I’m not Black, and insist that I claim being White as well. In reality, I have no problem acknowledging having White ancestry, but my White relatives seem like relics of the past. More like people who made a pit stop on the family tree, rather than people whose stories and lessons were passed down generations. I have no reason to think of myself as anything but Black. A quick history lesson could clear up any confusion, but to these people, seeing is believing. My interests have also been assessed against a list of approved Black activities. A White friend once called me “White washed” for being interested in Buddhism (so many things wrong with that claim). And as I was offering my perspective on an issue, a friend suggested that we ask “someone who is really Black.” White people who feel entitled to weigh in on Blackness seem to base their notions of race on what makes them most comfortable. They hold a caricature of Blackness in their minds, and anyone who deviates from that image challenges how they have come to see the world. Professor Yaba Blay, featured prominently throughout the report, explains through her work on the (1)ne Drop project that “when met by people who self-identify as ‘Black,’ but do not fit into a prototypical model of ‘Blackness,’ many of us not only question their identity, but challenge their Blackness, and thus our potential relationship to them.” In other words, if they can figure out what box to put me in, they’ll know how to treat me. White people who feel entitled to weigh in on Blackness seem to base their notions of race on what makes them most comfortable. Having your physical appearance scrutinized and personal identity denied is nothing less than objectifying. When White people examine and define our Blackness, it harkens back to the days of commodifying Black people based on how we look. While many Black people indulge in the “Black enough” debate, having a White person reject your Blackness suggests that it is a matter under their purview, not even something for us as a people to wrestle with. It suggests that our ability to formulate an identity is nothing but an illusion, and stereotypes, not personal experiences, govern who we are. Such beliefs are grounded in simplistic notions of race that neither honor our individuality nor the complex history that binds us as a community. What these White people need to realize is that implicit in their accusations that I am not Black enough is the notion that Black people’s options and interests are supposed to be limited while theirs are naturally boundless. The issue isn’t whether I’m similar to them; it’s their failure to recognize that they’re similar to me. A Black person. That we are allowed to have things in common. That what makes me Black isn’t how much of an “other” I am, it’s the fact that I am profoundly shaped by being a member of the African Diaspora and know no other story. It’s in what I care about and in the work I do. It’s in how I feel, how I think, and how I express myself. So, who is Black? I am.
like any ass your entitled to your opinion seems like you got a ; problem with other people having theirs !
Monday, March 4th 2013 at 10:58PM
DAVID JOHNSON
you and harry got that bad ,,,,IM ALWAYS RIGHT Syndrome THATS why your ,,toxic !
Monday, March 4th 2013 at 11:01PM
DAVID JOHNSON
White people who feel entitled to weigh in on Blackness seem to base their notions of race on what makes them most comfortable. They hold a caricature of Blackness in their minds
Monday, March 4th 2013 at 11:02PM
DAVID JOHNSON
LOL.... I like the way you said America as "Her" If that were the case... America Feminin.... We would not be in the fiscal difficulties we're facing.
Ok... Robert I asked you how you identify youself. So now I will ask, How do other people see you? Are u tan enuff to look African/American? Or almost Pinkish to be called Caucasion?
I say this because everywhere you go.... The Outward Appearance is the first thing to see.... (Remember Rosa Parks on the bus). Our dear Federal Government has their Race List... Think of Mr. President and his speech on Race.... DMV, SOCIAL SECURITY, BIRTH CERTIFICATE all list what Race is he/she ? before African American.. we were black boy/black girl/ white boy/white girl...
I would love to tell my son that his little brown skin don't matter in this Eurocentric World. I would love to tell him that he could be whatever he wants to be but I know that my brown skin son is going to have to compete against his counter parts; but the white skinned boy has nothing to worry about because Dad owns the Corporation.
I think I understand your reservations regarding Race... we should not see ourselves as black or white. BUT I can tell you on both David and my stance... we are looked at as Black Boys and Black Gals ... now to take that derrogatory statement and flip it around... Black is Beautiful, We People of Color have over 4000 hues of color rainging from Apricot ... to Pepper black ...... No Other Race Has That..... and we Age Gracefully!!!
Black is just simply Beautiful Robert.... Just chant this in a Eddie Murphy voice.... Black Is Beautiful.... feel those words roll....
I have cousins so white that they could actually pass. BUT they are so proud of their "Darkness"
Tuesday, March 5th 2013 at 12:21AM
Cynthia Merrill Artis
sorry
for educated 'blackPeople' (drs of 'blackNess')--- or negros of goverenedBY christ
or olde sweetColored ladies
i should have wrote above-----and 'black' IS 'white' --- IS 'red' ---IS 'yellow' --- IS 'tan' --- IS 'pink' --- IS 'apricot' --- IS 'pepperBlack' --- IS 'darkness' ----IS 'sepia' -- IS 'NEGRO' --- IS 'SLAVE'
-----IS RACIST colorWorship---in the name of latinJesus---paganChristian I-G-N-O-R-A-N-C-E!
IF YOU SAY ONE WORD ABOUT HIS AZZ ,,we gonna have a problem !!
Tuesday, March 5th 2013 at 10:41AM
DAVID JOHNSON
what an offSUBJECT FALSE 'blackRemark', the dj AKA- selfProfessed blogKING-writes?
hey, dj has done this antiIslaamic 'blackThang' for 'whiteThang' manyTImes......
"as long as you dont write about the ... pedophile /child molester Mohammad Tuesday, March 5th 2013 at 10:17AM ------David Johnson
SUBJECT dirtBAG?
yourSUBJECT----HOT TOPIC : Why Whites Should Stop Weighing in on Black Authenticity
for you though ---i guess ----HOT TOPIC is FILTHY paganChristian FALSEHOOD.........
that is why you BLOCK---INTELLIGENCE, and will not DEBATE me---in the Old United Negro College Style FASHIONED by the GREAT Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall
you are a cartoonFrightened she/he/it ONLY----
yourFRAUD "freedom of speech"
---allows you to go OFF yourSIMPLE SUBJECT to de*****ATE the GREATEST LAWGIVER OF ALL TIME
----HONORED in front of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA SUPREME COURT-----2013
you are, where and IS ------NOTHING
your: "FREEDOM of SPEECH" is from the SAME 'scholarship'--paganChristianity
paganChristianity-----that gave the WORLD the idea that the African WAS the APE family not HUMAN family
paganChristianity-----that gave the WORLD the idea that the africanSlave was 3/5th of a HUMAN being.......
your antiIslaamic LYING FRAUD is also euro"WHITEMANISH"---you 'white'TRASH
this is the TRUTH of your LYING FRAUDULENT postLink-------
______________________________________ Aisha(ra) the Mother of AlIslaam and the Wife of Mohamed(saw)
1. The famous Classical Historian of ALIslaam, Ibn Jarir Tabari, wrote in his ‘History’:
“In the time before AlIslaam, AbuBakr(as) married two women. The first was Fatila daughter of AbdulUzza, from whom Abdullaah and Asma were born. Then he married Umm Ruman, from whom AbdurRahman and Aisha were born. These four were born before the ProphetHood of Mohamed(saw)”
Being born before ALIslaam means being born before the Call, AlQur'aan.
2. The compiler of the famous Hadeeth collection Mishkat AlMasabih, Imam WaliudDin Mohamd ibn Abdullah AlKhatib, who died 700 years ago, has also written brief biographical notes on the narrators of Hadeeth reports. He writes under Asma, the older daughter of Abu Bakr:
“She was the sister of Aisha Siddiqa, wife of the Holy Prophet(saw), and was ten years older than her. … In 73 A.H. … Asma died at the age of one hundred years.”
This would make Asma 28 years of age in 1 A.H., the year of the Hijra, thus making Aisha(ra) 18 years old in 1 A.H. So Aisha(ra) would be 19 years old at the time of the consummation of her marriage, and 14 or 15 years old at the time of her neekaah. It would place her year of birth at four or five years before the Call, AlQur'aan.
3. The same statement is made by the famous classical commentator of the ALQur'aan, Ibn Kathir, in his book AlBidayya walNihaya:
“Asma died in 73 A.H. at the age of one hundred years. She was ten years older than her sister Aisha.”
Apart from these three evidences, we also note that the birth of Aisha(ra) being a little before the Call is consistent with the opening words of a statement by Aisha(ra) which is recorded four times in Bukhari. Those words are as follows:
“Ever since I can remember my parents were following the religion of Islam.”
your PROBLEM is with TRUTH, READING and you FRAUDULENT BIA HISTORY....
Unexpectedly Allah's Apostle came to me in the forenoon and my mother handed me over to him, and at that time I was a girl of nine years of age.
*** It is NOT unreasonable to assume that Aisha's hair fell because of the TRAUMA of being married to Muhammad of 50 years, equal in age to her father.
The above report from her mouth, shows a bewildered and frightened little girl who was given to a much older man for s*x.
To call Muhammad's intercourse 'consummation of marriage' is a diabolical misrepresentation of reality and morality.
Aisha, a little girl, was RAPED by Muhammad since there was no CONSENT on her part.
It should also be pointed out that Aisha was not able to bare any children to Muhammad. Here too, one can assume that her reproductive system may have been damaged when Muhammad penetrated her especially if she had not yet reached puberty ***
Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith 5.236 Narrated byHishams father Khadija died three years before the Prophet departed to Medina. He stayed there for two years or so and then he married 'Aisha when she was a girl of six years of age, and he consumed that marriage when she was nine years old.
Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith 6.399 Narrated byYusuf bin Mahik I was in the house of 'Aisha, the mother of the Believers. She said, "This revelation: 'Nay, but the Hour is their appointed time (for their full recompense); and the Hour will be more previous and most bitter,' (54.46) was revealed to Muhammad at Mecca while I was a playful little girl."
Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith 7.18 Narrated byUrsa The Prophet asked Abu Bakr for 'Aisha's hand in marriage. Abu Bakr said "But I am your brother." The Prophet said,
"You are my brother in Allah's religion and His Book, but she (Aisha) is lawful for me to marry."
For those who speak Arabic, this will read as:
" Innama ana akhooka" and Muhammad replied " Anta akhi fi deen Allah wa kitabihi, wa hiya li halal"
*** Abu Bakr was so shocked at Muhammad's proposal to marry the child Aisha of six years that he told him 'but I am your brother' meaning that it should not be permissible as if it were insestuous.
This word 'but' brings out the true disbelief of Abu Bakr regarding the request, which of course turrned out to be an unchallengeable demand. Muhammad after all was of a similar age to Abu Bakr.
Tuesday, March 5th 2013 at 12:16PM
DAVID JOHNSON
ahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith 9.140 Narrated byAisha Allah's Apostle said to me, "You were shown to me twice (in my dream) before I married you. I saw an angel carrying you in a silken piece of cloth, and I said to him, 'Uncover (her),' and behold, it was you. I said (to myself), 'If this is from Allah, then it must happen.' Then you were shown to me, the angel carrying you in a silken piece of cloth, and I said (to him), 'Uncover (her),' and behold, it was you. I said (to myself), 'If this is from Allah, then it must happen.' "
*** Muhammad admits that he had s*xual fantasies about Aisha even when she was a BABY.
No further comment is needed ***
Sunan of Abu-DawoodHadith 4915 Narrated byAisha, Ummul Mu'minin The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) married me when I was seven or six. When we came to Medina, some women came, according to Bishr's version: Umm Ruman came to me when I was swinging. They took me, made me prepared and decorated me. I was then brought to the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him), and he took up cohabitation with me when I was nine.
debate the facts old man ....or are you so dumb your blinded by your own lies and false
religion ,,,you gonna learn today ! wake your old ass up
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no scholarship /lack of coordination fake ./lying dog //monkey ape lover slave w,boy ,,fake islam /r homo powell
In Muhammadan Islam, all human beings are the SLAVES/ ABEED of Allah.
The relationship between Allah and Humanity is like that of a Master and his Slaves. It is based on FEAR of Allah and NOT on LOVE.
In the Arabic language even before Muhammad, the word Slave/ Abd was - and still is - associated with BLACK AFRICANS.
The Arabs looked upon the Black people as inferior beings. Muhammadan Islam and the exegetes of the faith propagated the same image.
Sura Al-i-Imran, 3:106-107 "On the day when some faces will be whitened and some faces will be blackened, say to those whose faces will be blackened, 'Did ye reject faith after accepting it? Taste then the penalty for rejecting faith.' But those whose faces will be whitened, they will be in Allah's mercy: therein to dwell."
Tuesday, March 5th 2013 at 12:36PM
DAVID JOHNSON
White is the colour of Light; to become white is to be illumined with Light, which stands for felicity, the rays of the glorious light of Allah. Black is the colour of darkness, sin, rebellion, misery; removal from the grace and light of Allah. These are the Signs of heaven and hell. The standard of decision in all questions is the justice of Allah#
The question to be asked is why is white equated with goodness and black equated with evil?
As a researcher, I am very puzzled at the lack of balanced historical reports by Muslims concerning the African people.
And consider this: Africa produced great thinkers like Augustine of Hippo (Algeria), Clement and Athanasius of Egypt, and Tertullian of Carthage (Tunis), while Ethiopia had the first African church totally independent of Europe (Acts 8).
In fact, I find it most interesting that an African church was planted first before there was ever a church in Britain, Canada, the USA or Spain, or any other European state. So why do we not hear of this African church, and why do we not continue to see any remnants of it today?
Perhaps we need to go to the Quran again to find the clue. Consider this verse -
Sura Tauba, 9:5: "Fight and slay [those who associate another with Allah (Shirk)], and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war."
It fits the pattern of Muhammadan Islam which fights against all those who choose to follow their own beliefs, that is beliefs not compatible with those of the followers of Muhammad; an idea we find well expressed in the following verse -
Tuesday, March 5th 2013 at 12:38PM
DAVID JOHNSON
It was the British Empire after all, who in the 1850's who initiated the moves to abolish and stop African Slavery in the first place under pressure from British Christians like David Livingstone and William Wilberforce, and hunted the Arab Muslim slave ships in the Indian ocean and around the African coasts who were continuimg their hellish business till recently.
Have you not read about the islands of Zanzibar and Pembe in East Africa, during the nineteenth century?
Have you not asked the question as to why Muslim countries have never been involved in the movements for the abolition of slavery?
Let's set the record straight. While Europeans were involved with the slave trade for a few hundred years, the existence of the traffic of African slaves had been well established among the Arabs one-thousand years earlier.
The Muslim position which places the entire blame for the invention and practice of black slavery at the door of Christian Europe, is OBSCENELY HYPOCRITICAL and simply not historically tenable.
Both the Grecian and Roman societies were slave states, yet most of their slaves were Caucasian. In fact, the word slave meant a person who was of Slavic origin.
Robert Hughes, in his essay on The Fraying of America in the February 3, 1992 issue of Time magazine corrects this false impression when he says:
"The African slave trade as such, the black traffic, was an Arab invention, developed by traders with the enthusiastic collaboration of black African ones, institutionalized with the most unrelenting brutality, centuries before the white man appeared on the African continent, and continuing long after the slave market in North America was finally crushed.
you have no FACTS.........even your Description of YOURSELF---as 'black'---is BASED on paganChristian slaverAmericana---1492-1864----
i, give you the HISTORY, Scholarship and Science of the nonRACIST europeanThinking -THAT has been the SAME for 1640+ YEARS
and
youCRY----that is all you can give yourGawds--- as 'coloredFacts' that are 'black'
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FACTS for 1460+ YEARS................from the jew/christian/muslim VIEWS of agreement:
1. slaverAmericana 1492-1864 WAS in the name of the latinJesus that WORST period of time for anyMan/woman---native, african, asian and european in HISTORY............. ____________________________________________________________________
FACTS for 1460+ YEARS................from the MUSLIM Recorded History.......
Aisha(ra) the Mother of AlIslaam and the Wife of Mohamed(saw) _________________________________________________________
1. The famous Classical Historian of ALIslaam, Ibn Jarir Tabari, wrote in his ‘History’:
“In the time before AlIslaam, AbuBakr(as) married two women. The first was Fatila daughter of AbdulUzza, from whom Abdullaah and Asma were born. Then he married Umm Ruman, from whom AbdurRahman and Aisha were born. These four were born before the ProphetHood of Mohamed(saw)”
Being born before ALIslaam means being born before the Call, AlQur'aan.
2. The compiler of the famous Hadeeth collection Mishkat AlMasabih, Imam WaliudDin Mohamd ibn Abdullah AlKhatib, who died 700 years ago, has also written brief biographical notes on the narrators of Hadeeth reports. He writes under Asma, the older daughter of Abu Bakr:
“She was the sister of Aisha Siddiqa, wife of the Holy Prophet(saw), and was ten years older than her. … In 73 A.H. … Asma died at the age of one hundred years.”
This would make Asma 28 years of age in 1 A.H., the year of the Hijra, thus making Aisha(ra) 18 years old in 1 A.H. So Aisha(ra) would be 19 years old at the time of the consummation of her marriage, and 14 or 15 years old at the time of her neekaah. It would place her year of birth at four or five years before the Call, AlQur'aan.
3. The same statement is made by the famous classical commentator of the ALQur'aan, Ibn Kathir, in his book AlBidayya walNihaya:
“Asma died in 73 A.H. at the age of one hundred years. She was ten years older than her sister Aisha.”
Apart from these three evidences, we also note that the birth of Aisha(ra) being a little before the Call is consistent with the opening words of a statement by Aisha(ra) which is recorded four times in Bukhari. Those words are as follows:
“Ever since I can remember my parents were following the religion of Islam.”
your PROBLEM is with TRUTH, READING and you ----- FRAUDULENT BIA HISTORY....
not with me.......'whiteBOI' .....'blackUNCLE tom'
lies ... The same statement is made by the famous classical commentator of the ALQur'aan, Ibn Kathir, in his book AlBidayya walNihaya:
At the time of the advent of Islam (in 7th century CE) slavery was rampant throughout India, Persia, Rome, the Arabian Peninsula, Rumania and Greece. The elite and educated class of these countries did not regard the slaves eligible even for the basic human rights. He was regarded as a commodity not worthier than cattle.[4] Often he was sold cheaper than sheep and goat. On special social occasions the distinguished citizens of the State used to get together with the Head of the State to watch the gladiatorial games in which the slaves were made to fight with swords and spears just like the shows of rooster-fights and partridges in our old feudal society. The people cheered the hands until one of the fighters was killed. The audience would then applaud the winner heartily.[5]
On the one side, the Arabian Peninsula was surrounded by countries which still bore traces of the grandeur of the then declining Roman-Greek civilisation, and on the other side, by countries wrapped in Zoroastrianism and Hinduism. As mentioned above, in all these countries slavery was a recognised institution. The twelve Tablets had given its official seal of approval to this institution. The unmitigated hardship and cruelty which the slaves were made to suffer had not abated but, if anything, the slaves were now accepted as animals whose fate was only to work and die for those who owned them. I do not intend this book to be a chronicle of the inhumanity which the slaves suffered but suffice it to say that man must forever carry in his conscience a sense of guilt for having once indulged in slavery.
Notes:
[1]. Ameer Ali, Spirit of Islam (London: University Paper-back, 1965), pp. 259-261; also see Will Durant, The Story of Civilization, vol. III (New York, 1944), p.397.
[2]. Aristotle, Politics, Book I, chp. 5 (New York: Modern Library, 1943), pp.58-60.
[3]. Durant, W., op. cit., vol. III, p., 397; vol. IV (New York, 1950), p.29.
Aisha, a little girl, was RAPED by Muhammad since there was no CONSENT on her part.
It should also be pointed out that Aisha was not able to bare any children to Muhammad. Here too, one can assume that her reproductive system may have been damaged when Muhammad penetrated her especially if she had not yet reached puberty ***
Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith 5.236 Narrated byHishams father Khadija died three years before the Prophet departed to Medina. He stayed there for two years or so and then he married 'Aisha when she was a girl of six years of age, and he consumed that marriage when she was nine years old.
Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith 6.399 Narrated byYusuf bin Mahik I was in the house of 'Aisha, the mother of the Believers. She said, "This revelation: 'Nay, but the Hour is their appointed time (for their full recompense); and the Hour will be more previous and most bitter,' (54.46) was revealed to Muhammad at Mecca while I was a playful little girl."
