The Tragic Mulatto We do not choose our sires, not consciously the way we choose our friends and spouses; still, inextricably, we are implicated in the romantic flushes of pleasures, deeds and misdeeds of those who willed us this way… planted at crossroads between two mutually exclusive worlds, one that is all-embracing and full of warmth and understanding, and another that is brutally calculating hardnosed and remorselessly acquisitive… a father with the flimsy presence of daydreams and a lingering shadow that would not be readily swept off by the sun at noon – a mother whose ubiquity makes an absentee father’s yearning all the more wistful… child of two worlds and thus a denizen of none; child of two worlds whose actuality of one’s fullness of being implies a meaningful convergence of both and thus the creation of a new world of even loyalties… no tragic mulatto when you stop to calmly and wisely ponder your two organic selves… rather, a tragically impoverished univisual world morally blighted beyond repair… 7/18/09 Credit: Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. [Email: Okoampaahoofe@aol.com

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