How did we end up here, on this alien shore where we can’t insist on our OWN cultural prerogatives, can’t complain about “appropriation” by The Other of OUR unique treasures?
Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton were white. Okay? They couldn’t help it, they were born that way. Get the eff over it. Get your own pantheon,—it’s fine, we don’t care. When I read Chinua Achebe I don’t complain because there are no white characters.
Why should we, alone among the peoples and nations, suddenly not be able to celebrate and revere our own heritage, the accomplishments of our talented brilliant forbears?
The only answer of the Woke appears to be: because you’ve been doing it for too long.
I don’t buy it. Works of literature and art would not BE “classics” EXCEPT for the fact that people have revered them. There has been so much art and lit produced since…well let’s say the 4th century. Most of it was destroyed or left to rot. Men think no more upon those creations.
But the works which survived? They did so BECAUSE of intrinsic merit. Beauty. Sagacity. So say I. Agree or not, I don’t care. Like I said: get your own classics.
Don’t make me watch a woman playing Henry V or a black guy (or woman) playing King John. Don’t cavil about Jane Austen’s works because her dad may have had some investment in cotton plantations. See, what I’m trying to say is : STFU.
Let everybody else create their OWN deathless works!
I double-dare you.
ST UnWoked & UnVaxxed! 
I am white and grew up picking cotton and lumberjacking.
Show me the way to my so-called white privilege.
I do, on the other hand, know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I had to score higher than all other races and sexes on the FBI’s entrance exam to get to that initial job interview circa 1991.
White women obvs. said nada because they were the primary beneficiaries of Affirmative Action at that time. Party on Sweet Loretta.
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Yeah well—women did not get a very long run, as I wrote here recently.
You are a Lord of Creation.
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“beneficiaries of Affirmative Action at that time.”
Nothing affirmative about ‘affirmative’ action.
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P.S. Hyp, St. Paul was shipwrecked on Malta, and that bore fruit, didn’t it?
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I forgot about that, hafta look up the story. That was when he clung to a spar all night, right! I hope WE can find one…
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We can *be* the spar for each other, right? 🙂
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“Spar”-tacus moment!
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Right on! We are Spartacus…(or Spasticus, in my case.) 😀
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But this is what I feel like, as if I’ve been cast up on an alien shore, where everything I loved is now anathema. Like, our flag, a symbol of hatred? I’m lost.
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And Y’know what’s funny? In a painful way of course: these bozos who are saying “keep the flag, it stands for tyranny and injustice,”— they fucking WON, right? They’re in charge! Oh. My. GOD how along are we gonna let them get away with spouting this nonsense? It is not cute any more.
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Feelings are absolutely valid; but, the “lostness” doesn’t have to remain….You are firmly connected to family, friends, colleagues, and faith, dear friend. There’s your harbor, and an anchor, or two, yes? One day, one moment at a time….
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Didja see what VDH said about the need to stand up and speak out against this virus of wokeness? We’re the ones who are *awake*. The rest are asleep in a fever-dream. (It really hasn’t ever been *cute*, has it?)
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“A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand, but it shall not come nigh unto thee”…I reckon that’s what you mean Nanda?
Yes but oh, that so many of our people should express such poisonous contempt for our country… is there anything more painful than seeing something you love despised and spat upon? You’re right, I’m lucky and I know it! Bless you!
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Thank you for the blessing! Right back atcha! St. Paul also grieved over his Jewish brethren who he’d not been able to reach with the gospel of Christ. Feeling pain over what’s going on is human, and laudable. But we can’t let it paralyze us. St. Paul carried that wound re: his co-religionists, but the pain fueled his prodigious efforts toward the gentiles.
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I just reread the Malta story. I forgot about the snakebite!
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