No Race Day 2018

Impossible to stand against it:

We all grow that feeling of race.

Friendships and cohorts,

people passing that get the glint.

Even if we don't intend to do it

we give in as if it were fate.

Remembering ourselves

in the context of our heroes,

we cling to personal myth by

clinging to social construct.

It's memory and desire:

it's okay to relate.


But deep within:

November hints:

be as one, none else recalls

the difference is of magnitude,

the uniqueness no one else

can select. Separate but equal

is a fantasy, but together we stand

each giving our own personal best.

A contemporary note:

As we learn about lineage and DNA background we feel our ancestral energy.   Some of us feel like we have black ancestors, or wanted some, and we feel that black is beautiful.  Because of my need to express myself, I cannot say that black-face is disrespectful, it is more like pastiche, honorific mimic.  I do not feel responsible for insulting expressions of the past, which they were not all.  I feel like to 'make-up what I love' is right for me.   It's time, for me, to turn the 'racist' page, stop seeing 'no color', stop assuming things about people's knowledge base, and start being race revelatory, delighted.  We must realize that all expressions have an element of appropriation, and it is not a problem to relate to culture(s) in a joyful way.  No Race Day is November 7, 2018, the first Wednesday of the month, to celebrate non-identification with group and empower us to love our individual irreplaceable uniqueness.   This day in history never came before.