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It's Blog Against Racism Week.
I'm not sure I would be posting anything in relation to it, if it wasn't also a convenient impetus to get me posting something again. But it is, and I really ought to, so I am.
The first post I saw about BARW (as opposed to the icons, I started seeing those days earlier) instructed me that one thing I should do if I was going to participate was change my default icon to a race-related one, if it wasn't one already... and hey look, my default icon is still my Katrina icon, like it has been pretty much since the levees broke. You bet I'm still angry.
But that's kind of misleading, because this post isn't about the black/white racial divide in America, or anywhere else.
( It's about me. )
I've actually been mulling a ranty-ish post about this -- about my family history and racial/ethnic identity -- for a long while now, and just never got around to it. If nothing else, BARW gave me that impetus to get it out. Which means that it did accomplish something... for me. Who's the only person I'm qualified to speak for.
I'm not sure I would be posting anything in relation to it, if it wasn't also a convenient impetus to get me posting something again. But it is, and I really ought to, so I am.
The first post I saw about BARW (as opposed to the icons, I started seeing those days earlier) instructed me that one thing I should do if I was going to participate was change my default icon to a race-related one, if it wasn't one already... and hey look, my default icon is still my Katrina icon, like it has been pretty much since the levees broke. You bet I'm still angry.
But that's kind of misleading, because this post isn't about the black/white racial divide in America, or anywhere else.
( It's about me. )
I've actually been mulling a ranty-ish post about this -- about my family history and racial/ethnic identity -- for a long while now, and just never got around to it. If nothing else, BARW gave me that impetus to get it out. Which means that it did accomplish something... for me. Who's the only person I'm qualified to speak for.
