Audre Lorde wants us
to celebrate our differences.
An American.
Woman.
Lesbian.
Black.
Plenty to celebrate.
But
would an Aboriginal celebrate
with a colonialist?
A Jew
with an SS officer?
A child
with a schoolyard bully?
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)
