Dear Jaaqub - and everyone on this list. This is my last posting for today so please bear with me.
I would like you to consider how you would feel if I subsitute another colour in your statement -
let's try greenness?
"It was in this spirit of syncopated knowing of the damage that is whiteness that I wrote the
paragraph below." It was in this spirit of syncopated knowing of the damage that is greenness ...
Quite funny really unless you are a Martian perhaps? Maybe offensive to the Green Party too?
Now try 'blackness'? It's not funny - it's not acceptable - it is racist and it is deeply offensive.
I will stand alone if needs be to say I find your expression of racism towards my ancestry deeply
offensive. Yes - there have been appalling abuses by whites but not by all and it is the way that
you take a broad swing at whiteness that is unacceptable. I would feel similarly appalled by any
similar attack on any race or colour. Archbishop Tutu's words reverberate in my ears about not
accepting others even if they are successful or (appear to) have more. I am not even sure if all of
my ancestors were white - that is not the point. Such evocative and hate-ridden language injures.
I sense no peace nor any conciliation when I read your posting today, just separation and division.
I invited you to help me understand how you perceive ubuntu in reviewing Jack's work after he had
invited us to engage with it. You did not feel able to - so I remain as mystified by your embodied
interpretation of ubuntu as I did when you refused to participate in a BERA symposium on ubuntu.
I videoed the session at AERA in 1999 - I don't recall what you claim ...
In sadness but yet in respect,
Sarah
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