Driverse Position, Week of Nov. 13


Kindred by Octavia Butler reminds me of several themes that I have seen in media and news lately. The civil war statues and the 23 and Me ancestry test.  It’s about Romanizing the south and your family.
            The people who are trying to keep the statues of the general and are not going to openly admit that they are racist (Side note, many of the statues were literally installed by the KKK. How can you say they are not racist?)
            People with the DNA test are finding out that they are 3 percent black or Indigenous and believe that it is some secret romantic past but, it was not. Life is not a Disney movie. You have to be honest about the past and what happened in your family. You don’t have to celebrate people or justify them just because you are related to them.
            Kindred explored this with Dana’s relationship with the young Rufus. She believes that still Rufus was Alice’s friend as a child that they later relationship would be murals but, it was not. Rufus is Alice’s rapist. He is not a good man and there is no reason to act like you own him anything.

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