Loved it just as much as Half of a Yellow Sun. Incredible characters/relationships, engrossing plot, incisive insight into the African immigrant experience. We let it pile up inside our heads and when we come to nice liberal dinners like this, we say that race doesn’t matter because that’s what we’re supposed to say, to keep our nice liberal friends comfortable.” In Brief:Īnother amazing book by Adichie – I was obviously way behind the hype, but it still lived up to everything. And we don’t want them to say, Look how far we’ve come, just forty years ago it would have been illegal for us to even be a couple blah blah blah, because you know what we’re thinking when they say that? We’re thinking why the fuck should it ever have been illegal anyway? But we don’t say any of this stuff. We don’t even tell our white partners the small things that piss us off and the things we wish they understood better, because we’re worried they will say we’re overreacting, or we’re being too sensitive.
But the minute you step outside, race matters. When you are black in America and you fall in love with a white person, race doesn’t matter when you’re alone together because it’s just you and your love. I came from a country where race was not an issue I did not think of myself as black and I only became black when I came to America. “The only reason you say that race was not an issue is because you wish it was not.
0 kommentar(er)
