Vision Circle

It is an interesting question.

Why do you care?

I don't. But I do think it is interesting.

In the work, it is axiomatic that "my *I* is where my attention rests."

Since I tossed my hat in the circle with a quick riff on traditional psychoarchitecture i.e., three brains - Me (instinctual) Myself (emotional) and I (intellectual) - and a still more cursory treatment of images as an artifact (more or less accessible) in each - I was wondering *where* in your psyche this provoked attention?

Where do you suppose dood's sense of license to say nigga resides?

Where do you suppose his image(s) of blackness reside?

Where do your images of blackness reside?

Any chance that you and he don't share a common set of internal representations (images) of blackness?

Any chance that such mismatched internal representations is at the heart of many a grave *cultural* misunderstanding?

In the work, it is axiomatic that "my *I* is where my attention rests."

Since I tossed my hat in the circle with a quick riff on traditional psychoarchitecture i.e., three brains - Me (instinctual) Myself (emotional) and I (intellectual) - and a still more cursory treatment of images as an artifact (more or less accessible) in each - I was wondering *where* in your psyche this provoked attention?

Where do you suppose dood's sense of license to say nigga resides?

Where do you suppose his image(s) of blackness reside?

Where do your images of blackness reside?

Any chance that you and he don't share a common set of internal representations (images) of blackness?

Any chance that such mismatched internal representations is at the heart of many a grave *cultural* misunderstanding?

What really interested me was the logic. I was struck by how tortured it seemed. BECAUSE he wasn't black, and BECAUSE his boy wasn't black he called his boy "my nigga."

So if he ran into a white dog (and was still himself, nonblack), would the dog too be his nigga? If he ran into someone who was black "for real" what would he call him? would he be an aggin? what?

Tortured?

Come on mayne.

This little nerd is awash in the pop idiom just like all the rest of us. He's watched comicview. He knows its verboten for him to call any black person nigga. He can, however, participate in the idiom of colloquial coolth, so long as he only just calls his nerd homey nigga. Think about the dood in the movie Office Space listening to Ghettoboyz up loud in his car until he rolls up next to a black man at the stoplight. (:

My 5 year old started kindergarten this fall. Guess what new salty term he added to his vocabulary on the playground, picked straight up from his little 5-6 year old cronies? He now understands that he is forbidden to say the "n-word", even more strenuously than the "a-word" or the "b-word". How do I rationalize this distinction to him, particularly given that his classmates use it with impunity?

As for our little nerd getting his crypto wigga on, of course he calls black people by their given names in person. Again, he's watched comicview or the chappelle show and knows he'd be at risk to assume interracial license with the "n-bomb".