Prometheus 6

This is more accurate than this.

I had a similar issue when I coined the term "Black partisan."

I am a Black partisan--one of those people that actively choose to accept racial kinship. My position is simple and straightforward-every event that affects Black people affects me. Therefore there is a connection between myself and other Black people that I must respond to in some fashion. What the mainstream thinks of Black people in general becomes my starting point in any new situation. My feelings of kinship with Black folks represents my recognition that my fate is linked to that of everyone else of visible African descent and my feelings of loyalty represents my recognition that the fate of everyone else of visible African descent is linked to mine.

Not really when I coined it but several years later. Someone tried to skew the concept, talking about what a "real" Black partisan would do. The term would then be used as a basis for excluding some Black folks who do actively accept that kinship because someone tells a story that disagrees.

Not having it. But it was a good thing because it taught me I need to own my rhetoric.