You want I should go naked?

by Angela K. Durden
Technology inventor protecting creator's copyrights. Business writer, novelist, songwriter, and Citizen Journalist.

Screen capture from the Claremont Independent. 

Through reasoned articles in highfalutin publications, children's stories read to us by teachers, and movies acting out for us, we've been told for at least fifty years the benefits to mankind in accepting different cultures. 

Kumbaya fairly dripped out of fashion magazines as they showed one white person after another swapping clothing, trying new hairstyles, cooking different foods, adding different colors to their walls and paintings, trying new jewelry styles, and more — all inspired by what we now call The Cultures of Persons of Color. 

Persons of Color did not mind this. They thought it was awesome. Indeed, the campaign for inclusiveness was wildly successful. I mean, look...I know more white people with dreads than I know blacks with them.

But the big question is: Why was the campaign for inclusiveness successful? 

Simple: Because it was white people doing all the including — and we did a damn fine job of it, too. 

Case in point of how much striving for excellence in inclusiveness white folks have done: 

I was helping out a venue who was putting on a show that featured Native Africans, all except one who was black (he was a white South African), singing Native African music. Ninety-eight percent of the audience was white. Toward the end of the show, one band invited all the people to stand and feel the music with them. 

Oh, lots of clapping and shoulder shaking and stamping in place was going on. But, from the back came a white woman who got right next to the stage and started doing a Native African dance better than they could. I know this because the band stared at her hard and looked at each other — then at me with shrugs of "huh?" — as this woman pushed her bubble butt up higher than her head and bounced it around in a perfect imitation of a tribal dance. 

So you see, the more white people took into their daily lives the fashions (and cultural dances) of non-whites, why then non-whites themselves began wearing more of their cultures' fashions and adopting more of their cultures' dances. 

Were they waiting on whites to give them permission to be who they really were? I don't know, but it is an interesting question, isn't it? But as they all do, this Pendulum of Inclusiveness swung back and it swung back hard.

Hoops such as these have now been
proclaimed as being for the
exclusive use of People of Color.

That's right. People of Color are now saying that — let me quote a Woman of Color from Claremont College — "...our winged eyeliner, lined lips, and big hoop earrings [serve] as symbols [and] as an everyday act of resistance..."

And who has to change yet again? Of course! White people. After fifty years of training by the Caring Left, all that has happened is now white people are evil if they wear hoop earrings.

They might want to tell these folks about that. Johnny Depp especially, since he wears hoops and winged eyeliner.

You want I should go naked?

Now we trade in the Old Politically Correct Inclusiveness for the New Politically Correct Exclusiveness. The very people who rail against being excluded, are now themselves practicing exclusion with gusto. 

Before too long, they're going to require all white folks go naked just to prove they aren't misappropriating anybody's culture. Then somebody's going to say, "Hey, wait. They are trying to be just like that Tribe of Color in That Country Over There" and a whole new campaign will start up. 

  

Can't win for damn losing.