Wifey stormed out of my house last night, fuming after our first real spat. Who knew an offhanded remark about Mr. Rogers and a threesome could evolve into a political debate? Our tiff is a post for another time (After I make a major peace offering), but our little disagreement has led me think about how my political views a have changed over the years.
The Ferris Bueller Years: All I gave a shit about these years was getting a car, because of all the ass I imagined it would get me. The biggest political event of my life to this point was the election of Harold Washington as Chicagos’ first black mayor when I was real young.
The Hate Whitey Phase: Late in high school I got a car and began to roam the windy city and discover that some people don’t like those different from themselves. A surface skimming of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, several Public Enemy albums and being called a few racial slurs led me to the view that nothing white was good (Larry Bird was an exception). I didn’t wear white, talk to many white kids or eat white rice.
Fuck tha Police Years: Thanks to the great education I was receiving in college, I realized that there are assholes of every race, creed religion and ethnicity, it’s just the assholes in power that are the problem. fuck corporations, fuck apartheid, fuck our duplicitous, hegemonic, oppressive world order.
One Love Period: What did I have to be angry about? There were beautiful women of every race and socioeconomic status on campus, gateway drugs were practically being given away, and frats couldn’t be sexist or elitist, I mean we did community service and had “little sisters” didn’t we?
Political Consciousness: An older, jewish, female professor opened my eyes to feminist theory, critical race theory, and challenged me to truly READ Freire, Woolf and Nietzsche instead of memorizing select quotes to impress girls.
Informed Bipartisanship: I now refuse to rely on any one news agency, tv channel, magazine or website. To determine my view on a candidate or subject I have to educate myself from multiple sources and make decisions on what I feel is right.
And that is as political I will ever get on this blog, I promise.
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