In a message dated 2/23/1999 11:50:00 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Apparently that grants some people to attack either me or their
(mis)conception of me, while any attempt I make in my own defence is
condemned. >>
The idea that I would have to prove that I am black or female to you, to
articulate what I have to say would be to negate my entire life in favor of
bowing to what you don't know about me.
No.
I posted an email to the list, and from then on you made the attack. I just
defended myself. My grandmother carried a shotgun to protect herself on the
way to school in the deep south - you expect me to be in any way cowed by your
words? Forget disrespecting you or dian fossey's fan, I will not disprect my
grandmother, those people, but being scared of your words or shouts of
"racism". My grandfather, raised in the deep south, told me that he saw that
as a tactic used to prevent black people from speaking out directly. He told
me that when he grew up, you would be killed for daring to comment on your own
opinion if it went against those of your oppressors, but people still spoke
out, so I should remember to
Do you see that I don't get my education from you, don't need an education
from you on such topics? Can you not hear what I am saying to you, or do you
just not want to hear it?
And thankfully, there are a lot of us who won't allow you to do what you tried
to do here. This only works among a crowd with your mindset.
You can't force me to accept or bow down to what you have said.
I reject it, and I remain as I was on my issues, my experiences, all you have
done is served to remind me why I have to be aware and speak directly. You
have reminded me who the people are I should not ever talk to about my issues,
because people like you always try the same tactics to assert what you believe
over the feelings and thoughts of the people who experience this issues.
But you are nothing, not at obstacle nor a leader on these issues, and you
never will be beyond the scope of the limits you present on this list. I am
not the one "outside" on these issues, you are.
For however long I am on this list I will make sure to delete every email you
send, as I will take the advice to ignore that "wannabee controller" on the
computer screen. The only place you can be taken even remotely seriously on
such issues is on a computer screen, on lists with people like this - you CAN
NOT go into an environment of people who actually have experience such issues
and tell them what they can and cannot think.
Stay on the list, you are safe and have power here.
Nicole
