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beautifulperson007 · 3 years

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#ConnectionsOfCare #BeMajestic #HarryAndMeghanAndMore

While the world still turns, I want to pause and say that yet another lesson of faith, race, racism, class, colorism and exclusion has caused more people to pay attention. Yes there are other stories that are valuable and ignored, this saddens me and doesn’t have to be.

Most decent people like to know if something unkind or unfair is fixable, why isn’t it fixed? The story of Harry and Meghan began long before either one really knew. Like many people in crisis of faith, sometimes that first No is frightening and dangerous. The problems of fulfilling roles that are ill-fitted for joy is that it can sap folks’ hope.

Any person who said yes to a situation that continues to drain them can resonate with the idea and act of saying: I both want and need to do something different and differently. Last year many people (self included) suffered immensely through 2020 and experienced the death of something or someone/many someones and close connections..even the erasure of things we took for granted like chatting and hugging one another without trepidation.

For me, I need to see signs of winning happen to and for people dismissed because they are biracial (Black enough for some not Black enough for others) or the youngest or not following protocols of expectations just so other people get to approve of how two grown people live. I needed and need conversations that have ears with with warm hearts attached—to empathize with the feelings of Black Women without diluting the experience of Biracial women who may not fully understand or ever knew to desire how race and color impact perception, privilege and even feelings of isolation or feeling ill-fitted for their child and adult experiences. A person doesn’t choose their parents at birth. They live in the world they know until that world brings about a situation/s to have them reconsider, renounce or find renewal through new insight. Willingness can help the willing.

Meghan and I share the fact that we both were blessed to have a Black mother. The other things are unsimilar except the right and desire to have our sanity and call out toxicity in any form even amongst people who we thought or hoped cared for our safety and existence.

I will add that not only are there people who are racist and white who vibe hatred, there’s aloofness, extreme unkindness, hatred and the mimicking of white supremacy behavior by Black and Brown people which vibes clearly anti Blackness. Many have start out in the language of wokeness but despise interracial relationships, Black women and Black women who are considered visually ambiguous or easy to be festishized because of light complexion and associated with exoticism are either pressed to prove their Black or other ethnic value while remembering their white or higher honored ethnic identity (There’s a scale. It says things like: We’re the bi-product of two or more cultures and there’s a designation I must lift up as exceptional when I need to make a power move) - Acceptance, deception and rejection are some uncomfortable family members and mirror partners.

If I add trans women, that spins into yet another dismissive and chronicled hatefest (even as current as today on the Ebony Magazine fb page I read an article that I confess sounded totally made up to create an atmosphere of hate surrounding a woman who confessed she was born genetically male but in a dilemma that her husband of four years wanting children but not knowing she couldn’t bare children because she didn’t share her origin story — the kinds of vitriol there was frightening). On the flip side, a wonderful promotion of a Black person to host a show on BET becoming the first Trans non binary host, was a reminder that everyday people have find their way to one location on their hope road. There’s a long story of people in the LGBTQIA love circle who know the pain of harm and exclusion. I would be remiss to not mention their value. I do not speak for for this community but I hold them in respect as I learn more about God sized love for neighbors and strangers.

There’s so much we can do to make life better by remembering that people who are historically in danger and heartbreak and injustice—as applicable - they/we deserve the same joy especially if it only requires you and I to not be intentional harmful, ignorant and or dismissive.

Like Barbara Streisand’s song classic: People who need people are the luckiest people in the world.

That’s helpful to remember and act upon: The idea that people are valuable, and royal by design.

#GodsMasterpieces Humanity in many more ways than noted above are majestically connected.

- Alicia M Pitterson

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