desi people
i am a desi diaspora chick interested in people and their browness in various forms (especially those that might deviate in different ways from the slick bollywood images that i/we regularly consume)
browness is a fluid term used by many in many different ways. i generally use it as we did growing up; desi peeps
these lyrics from Skunk Anansie’s INTELLECTUALIZE MY BLACKNESS:
I hit him with a piece of his philosophy
Anglo-Saxon muck in his type of greed
What did he do to deserve such hate
(He tried to) intellectualise my blackness
…Then he tells me I’m so different from those other shits
(When he tries to) intellectualise my blackness
He tried to summerize, to institualise
Still I could recognize, he was materialized
He tried to intellectualise my blackness
To make it easier for his whiteness
He tried to intellectualise my blackness, save me
Motherfucker don’t you lecture-rise me
Don’t you ever try to lecturize me
Motherfucker don’t you lecture-rise me
Oh No
works interestingly together with the satirical bite of Jahcoozi’s ASIAN BRIDE MAGAZINE:
Brown on the outside, white on the inside
You’re just a coconut they turned into a bounty
Brown on the outside, white on the inside
You’re just a paki, but you’re cool on the flipside
credit to Derica’s recent post for pointing me towards the Skunk Anansie lyrics.
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