I see...a butt hurt, entitled white woman's mixed child who resents my not wanting them as the head of our table....have several stadiums of seats, not everything needs to center around your white supremacist self. My Blackness was not a decision made for me by non Black mother, it has been a part of my tapestry since the dawn of time and the newly Black mixed spawned from my oppressors that benefit from the systemic racism we're fighting should not be prominently representing us in the media, it looks ridiculous. Be lucky that we have seats for you at our table, unlike your non Black half.
So because this mixed man (who didn't choose his parents) chose to champion our cause we shouldn't accept that? No, for most of us blackness was not an "option", but if we were to all of a sudden take away the efforts of those of mixed race heritage you wouldn't see a LARGE portion of our resistance. It is precisely BECAUSE of being denied HALF of who they are that we should be the ones to embrace the other half and eventually the whole. Us African-American's technically don't even really have a genetic platform like that, if you were born in America chances are you are a mutt, mixed with the blood of slaves and slave owners AND natives.
Now because your dominant black traits shown through doesn't make you more of a freedom fighter than this man who decided to take up the mantle when he could have easily shunned us....like many of ACTUALLY "full-blooded" black celebrities have. You really think Jessie Williams has room to be this guy if Lebron or Jay or D. Wade or Will Smith or any other MEGA-celeb stood up PROUDLY and said the things he says?
No, because they are all cowards in their own rights too. With the passing of Ali this all became tragically apparent to me, but to deny mixed people is to also in a way deny the way that our foremothers were raped by white men, or denies the work that mixed race people have done for our cause. Its all about who's effective. We are beyond having "heroes that look like us" we have to move into the "we need heroes who can forward our cause" way of thinking. Period. But instead, cats want to waste time playing genetic gymnastics or justifying why black men (really all men) have been shytty to black women, instead of circling the wagons, creating groundswell and coming to the world with the full brunt of our collective creative, legislative, intellectual and economic power. Part of what made the Movement so powerful in the 60's was everything was energy for it, the music, the art, the movies, the clothing, the groups....everything was geared towards the central theme of black power and black mobility. This will never happen again as long as we sit here and argue about fukking Jessie Williams.
Should Brother Malcolm have not have represented us?
Kathleen Cleaver?
Bob Marley?
Fredrick Douglass?