Politically, one of the things to which I most object to in the white grievance narrative that is cajunismo — and that interestingly, is deployed the most by older men and certain emotionally deprived teen-boys (and I will note that it is a masculinist narrative, you don’t hear women singing it) — is its appropriation and weaponization of civil rights discourse. These were working-class white and white-leaning (like the Russians, by the way, my immigrant ancestors were also not considered fully white since they were also not WASP) refugee-immigrants and many other groups have parallel histories. “Poor me, I was oppressed and now have the right to oppress” is NOT in fact what the Native Americans, the African-Americans, the Hispanic Americans, or the Asian Americans have ever said. It’s only white guys who say that. I repeat that every day is a good day to oppose every white grievance narrative; I’m not negotiating with it any more or being manipulated by it any more, even when it comes in “Cajun” form. It’s doing me a a great deal of good and it would do us all a lot of good if we would join together to resist … and, Cajuns, since you so identify with refugees and immigrants … abolish ICE.
Your political problem isn’t my psychological problem, is my new lemma. I am now noticing how good it feels to be an open opponent of the Cajun regime. I think they’ll like it better, too. In the past, I couldn’t believe how conniving, incompetent and dishonest they were, and I believed them when they said they it was because they were poor, oppressed things. I tried to show them that I didn’t look down on them, and also show them how to work with me and others instead of exploit us and rule over us. I resented them because they were blocking my progress and discriminating against me, and they resented me because I expected them to be better than that. Now that I admit they really are as low as they look, I have freed them to be like that and myself not to negotiate with them. We may get along much better.
I will add, though, that the Cajuns, if they believe in their own story the way they say they do, should be opposing ICE. They do not stop saying they were refugees and immigrants who were later discriminated against for speaking a minority language. Every element here should imply utter solidarity with certain current exiles and emigrés, emigrantes a América. But the Cajuns support ICE 3-1.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 