Mulatto Nation

Lezley Saar, my nomination for Secretary of State of Mulattopia.

Mulattopia, Stage One

Beige people of the world, crack your windows, because when the Mulatto Revolution happens, the above song shall be the sound you will hear!

When the last mixed Negro gets tired of having to prove their racial worth to the black world, and the last halfbreed Oreo gets sick of being the only cookie in their circle with chocolate encircling their cream filling, a new way will be found, a Third Way, a way filled with intricate harmony and devoid of contradiction, and the Mulattoes will join in the streets and start walking out to the countryside to form a new nation, a land of the Other, where the Third Way will be defined as it never could before.

And to this song we will till the land on our compound and with earth under our nails we shall create a space for ourselves in the world without compromise, where we will be half of nothing and whole of all. And this will be our Homeland, because everybody should be in the majority at least sometimes, even us who are minorities within our own families.

(And then, when the music ends, we'll awake from our spell, miss our loved ones and lovers, and be reminded that beige people are pretty annoying in large doses too, and try and figure out how to get the bus out of there...but we will exchange emails or business cards or something before most of us slink back to our realities.)

Until then, you mixed masses, get prepared. Immerse yourself in Mat Johnson's Mulattopia Master Mix. Find a country within the wall of sound:

EMILY KING
Emily King

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