On yesterday’s post, Lord Hannibal made a comment that made me go, “hmm…” (Remember Arsenio’s “Things that Make You Go Hmm?”) 
He made me think and reminded me of a quote attributed to Langston Hughes. Paraphrased roughly, Hughes says that “they’ve taken my blues and gone.” Sounds of Blackness added to it, “everybody wants to sing my blues/nobody wants to live my blues/for a long time, we’ve been living the blues.” Thanks LH for the snap back.
I wonder if those to whom Black culture has been exported would want to pay “the price of the ticket” (James Baldwin) to really sing with soul and understand the cost of it. “Anybody wanna trade places with me, the little Black girl?” Probably not.
LH? Langston Hughes? Aaahh, just a coinkidink I’m sure.
The pleasure is mine.
For some time I have believed that non-whites love everything about being black except … being black. Wouldn’t it be nice if we got to pick and choose what we liked about being black and leave the parts we didn’t behind? But alas … *sigh*
Comment by Lord Hannibal — December 21, 2007 @ 1:31 p