WHY ARE YOU A SLAVE TO THE “MASTER NARRATIVE”
What does it benefit Gays, Blacks, or Women to follow the Master Narrative?
That shit don’t benefit us not one bit.
All it does is make us self hating blacks who think that white and lighter skin is inherently better than dark skin.
All it does is make us self hating gays who think that gays are inferior to and less than straights. And that straights by nothing more than the virtue of their straightness are inherently superior to every other sexual orientation.
All it does is make women think that they really are inferior to men. That they really are defective men who somehow should follow behind men and accept their place as second class citizens.
The Master Narrative tells us that women shouldn’t be paid the same as men, that blacks aren’t be beautiful or intelligent, and that gays love is somehow less valid than that of straights.
Unless you are a wealthy, white, able bodied, heterosexual man you have no business following the Master Narrative and its high time we started waking up and realizing that we who are Black, Gay, or Woman need to stop following, perpetuating, reinforcing, sustaining, and maintaining, the Master Narrative.
Posted on May 21, 2010, in Master Narrative and tagged Feminism, Master Narrative, Toni Morrison. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT! THANK GOD I THOUGHT ID NEVER FIND ANYONE AS PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS AS I AM! LETS GO FOR IT!
It’s a sad thing that in any marginalised community there are people working to encourage marginalisation. And you can call them what you like – Uncle Toms in the black community, colluders among women, and no single word hyet in the GBLT community, but we certainly have no shortage of self-hating, homophobic gay people out there.
They exist, always have – and, probably, always will. And part of me pities them, I pity them because they can be very very damaged individuals (as I’ve written before, but I’ll refrain from link dropping), but they are enemies.
And that’s what we need to learn. Maybe they’ve just absorbed and internalised a few too messages from the kyrarchy and need a swift slap upside the head. And maybe they’re past all hope – either way, we need to recognise them AS enemies and work against them – either to snap them out of it, open their eyes or to expose and fight them
And at the moment we’re not doing that well. We assume a black person cannot advance racism, we assume a woman isn’t going to espouse sexism, we assume a GBLT person won’t encourage homophobia and transphobia. We need to get past that and call out the sell outs. AND stop the powers that be waving their token self-hating traitors as cover for their bigotes crap