SUPERDAVE HOUDINI HAS OPINIONS THAT COUNT. THEY MAKE YOUR BRAIN DO OVERTIME.

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December 2 at 7:10pm · 

See this is the shit I'm talking about. Why must you always try to disregard that this is a "black" problem by trying to include yourselves to our struggle you dilute our message.

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RESPONSE TO AN EYE-OPENING TWEET:
SUPERDAVE HOUDINI TAUGHT A BIT OF WISDOM TO A SELF-CENTEED PUTZ.  

by bdp.

Reading SUPERDAVE HOUDINI's views on race & society usually make me stop & ask myself real questions that do not make me comfortable. My efforts have always been aimed at not "understanding" Black experience because i have the strange idea that a white cannot understand or "walk a mile" in the shoes of a Black man or woman. 

 My heart bleeds a little yes, and i have joined in marches for everything from Reparations to Mumia Abu Jamal and the epidemic of a minority group being uncomfortably close to being the majority of encaged people. 

But as SUPERDAVE HOUDINI strongly protested that whites "dilute" the message of exclusively Black problems, i wonder about myself. Have i inserted myself in as a "proxy-victim" perhaps? And was it the selfish adrenaline-junkie in me shouting instead of a real human being who has no right to include myself in Black causes? I've been unable to answer these questions to my own satisfaction. 

But i've been raised on a nourishing diet of John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Malcolm X, the Honourable Dr. Khallid Muhammad, and His Honor Dr. Neely Fuller, Jr., to name but a few of the authors and teachers of Pan-Afrikan and Afrocentric thought i've studied on my own. 

None of these brilliant scholars, these men who hold very high esteem and to whom i look up to and am in awe of upon hearing their voices -- none wrote chapters asking white people to become part of the Black struggle, none broke into their certain and well-learned angry visionary speeches to meekly and softly ask whites to be in a struggle that is not ours. 

 Thank you SUPERDAVE HOUDINI for accidentally making me swallow most, not all, of my self-righteous, irrational need to save a strong race of people who do not require the kind of saving that a white person would inevitably impose. Whites move erratically from apathy to brutality to a mockery of human empathy to that noxious abusive paternalism. Changing my way of thinking always proves to increase my empathy and creativity as a writer of satirical steampunk. Helps me grow a little, maybe? I can only shrug. Can't wait for CAPTAIN Q.