Our elders are more than the utility they provide The problem of visibility at the intersection of aging, poverty and Blackness predates me, finding its genesis on the plantation grounds. Anti-Blackness and the Fetishization of Visibility Anti-blackness, predictably, got in the way of something that had the potential to be a commentary on the politics of visibility under racial capitalism. Self healing was the key to pursuing ministry in my senior years The call to ministry became clearer when some friends and I started opening our homes to people who had no place to live; people who had fallen through the cracks of the social "safety" net. Words our fathers should have said: Encouragement for other Black cis-het men experiencing body-dysmorphia I hoarded bodybuilding magazines and wasted nights diagramming routines which earned me more injuries than benefit. In the gym, I exercised to nausea, vomited and despised myself for being ill equipped for exercise regimens designed to market magazines. Toni Morrison's "A Mercy" reminds us all of the power Black and Native American solidarity wields Black and Indigenous communities bear the brunt of social and environmental injustices from the same systems of oppression.
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