{"id":2272,"date":"2017-02-18T17:39:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T17:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2017-02-18T17:39:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T17:39:57","slug":"baldwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2017\/02\/baldwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Baldwin"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw I Am Not Your Negro<\/a> the other day.<\/p>\n

It starts with James talking about how living in Paris, he didn\u2019t miss anything about the US but one thing: black people.<\/p>\n

I know what he felt now more than ever: I\u2019ve never had as many black folks in my life as of now and damn.<\/p>\n

Damn. You have no idea.<\/p>\n

That sweet love and beautiful connections I experience interlace with this harshly divided world. Black people after the past years of watching ourselves die in real life in HD, after NOT voting for that motherfucker are so fed up. My white France is missing me. My France doesn\u2019t care about its black population, never did.<\/p>\n

Division has intensified. People don\u2019t understand the weight and test of time, especially when they don\u2019t have to care about it because they\u2019re on the easy side. Being in the middle is more isolating, more strenuous than ever.<\/p>\n

That intersectional shit is cutting deep and fast man, I\u2019m trying to navigate it like Spike in his Swordfish II in the middle of an asteroid field. I\u2019m going to the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, this micro world where less than 2% of people are black. And I\u2019m probably going to stay in Oakland where as Dave Chappelle jokes \u201cyou put all of them niggers on the other side of the bridge huh?\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s this weird bag of very high adversity, straight up hostility on one hand and complete comprehension and cultural acceptation on the other hand. Every minute of my life, I witness and experience things you only read or hear about.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s so corrosive. I wish it would stop. I know it won\u2019t. I guess it also makes me feel alive like nothing else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw I Am Not Your Negro the other day. It starts with James talking about how living in Paris, he didn\u2019t miss anything about the US but one thing: black people. I know what he felt now more than ever: I\u2019ve never had as many black folks in my life as of now and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions\/2273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}