“Bow legs! Bow legs!” Nothing. She just rocked on, the chin straps of her baby-boy hat swaying from side to side. I think we were wrong. I think she could hear and didn’t let on. And it shames me even now to think there was somebody in there after all who heard us call her those names and couldn’t tell on us.ime leaps forward. Roberta leaves St. Bonny’s first, and a few months after so does Twyla. The girls grow into women.
Shoes, dress, everything lovely and summery and rich. I was dying to know what happened to her, how she got from Jimi Hendrix to Annandale, a neighborhood full of doctors and IBM executives. Easy, I thought. Everything is so easy for them. They think they own the world. For the reader determined to solve the puzzle—the reader who believes the puzzle can be solved, or must be solved—this is surely Exhibit No. 1. Everything hangs on that word “they.” To whom is it pointing? Uppity black people? Entitled white people? Rich people, whatever their color? Gentrifiers? You choose.
Their most contested site is Maggie. Maggie is their Columbus Day, their Thanksgiving. What the hell happened to Maggie? At the beginning of “Recitatif,” we are informed that sandy-colored Maggie “fell” down. Later, Roberta insists she was knocked down, by the older girls—an event Twyla does not remember.
Some take the narrowest possible view of this category of “my people”: they mean only their immediate family. For others, the cry widens out to encompass a city, a nation, a faith group, a perceived racial category, a diaspora. But, whatever your personal allegiances, when you deliberately turn from any human suffering you make what should be a porous border between “your people” and the rest of humanity into something rigid and deadly.
Oddly enough, this reminds me of the amazing marthawells1 - a few of my pals and I have had similar conversations about aspects of the identity of the Murderbot
'If it is a humanism, it is a radical one, which struggles toward solidarity in alterity, the possibility and promise of unity across difference.' - Zadie Smith
A brilliant story to use in teaching
Also her most boring work.
It's more appropriate to think of the races as different species.
Treat yourselves to a listen to this fantastic Morrison short story read by the fab Levar Burton, 2020.
Everything is race, race, race in America and you are infecting the world with the garbage.
❤️reëxamining shared history =/= “'resentment politics,' as if telling a history in full could only be the product of a personal resentment, rather than a necessary act performed in the service of curiosity, interest, understanding (of both self & community), & justice itself.'
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