What’s dividing us and poisoning
our culture?
Oh, I don’t know, possibly
something like this: Singer/songwriter
‘Muni Long’ recently posted a video clip on Instagram in which she adamantly
touted her refusal to write songs for “non-melanated” artists.
The ‘artist,’ whose real name is
Priscilla Renea Hamilton, stated that a high-ranking executive at Atlantic
Records suggested that she write soul music for non-Black performers. Long
ranted: “Me to the president of Atlantic asking me to write ‘soulful’ songs for
non-melanated artists. ‘Fuck no! And imma stand on that!’” Sadly, though I
couldn’t pick her out in a crowd of two, Long is apparently a Grammy-winning
star.
If Long doesn’t want to write songs
for non-Blacks, she should understand if the non-melanated don’t want to attend
her shows. And if Caucasians don’t want to work for her. Or wait on her in
restaurants. Etc., etc., etc. What if the non-melanated don’t wish to sing for
a Black audience? Or Asians don’t want to cook for Native Americans? Or
Capricorns don’t want to cut the hair of a Mexican? Or Catholics don’t wish to
operate on a gay person? Or vice-versa? What if a comic doesn’t want to tell
jokes to an audience of darker-skinned people? What if a grocer refuses to sell
food to someone/anyone because of their skin color?” What if …well, you get the
idea. Unbridled diversity is a recipe for strife in the best of cases. When
race and sexual/gender identity are as relentlessly and needlessly emphasized
as they are in as diverse a nation as modern-day America, that nation can be essentially
destroyed in no time flat.
Are identity politics and
intersectionality good ideas?
“Bleep no! And imma stand on that!”
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