Procrastination is My Mother of Discovery

I am procrastinating today. That is going to end soon though. I want to finish writing the next chapter of the book. I want to finish reading a book I'm to write a professional review for. I need to organize in my mind and on paper all the other things I want to do for the week. I want to answer some emails and make some phone calls. I want to spend some quality time with my partner John today as well. For now however, I'm continuing my procrastination. And for me procrastination is the mother of discovery. My mind just wanders and I typically end up connecting all kinds of interesting dots as a result.

So here's the connecting dots that led to this post: I don't believe I know any African American atheists--none. I know several African American communists and socialists though none of them are also atheist. I know African Americans who have released and traded in almost every single vestige of traditional American life known to them. But they have not yet released the God of their understanding. I know all kinds of African American drag queens, radical gay activists, transgender men and women and leather Daddies and boys. None are atheist. In all of those categories I also know many whites and others and many of them are also atheist. I know many a transgender girl of The African Diaspora who have been beat up, beat down and thrown out like yesterdays trash by both life and individual people, seemingly every other day. But damn if they don't drag their azzes down to Glide or Arc of Refuge in San Francisco at least 2 out of every 4 or 5 Sundays a month to "fall out" and sing the praises of Jesus.

Let me be crystal clear, I have absolutely no issues with atheism nor atheists.

Errbody knows just how much faith, spirituality and religion mean to most black folk. When I started thinking about all of this today however, and also thinking of all my non-black friends who have thrown religion, spirituality and all the other cosmic babies out with the bathwater after watching just one rabid Christian hate monger go off on LGBT people, it really just made me go hmmmm.

I am not drawing any conclusions here. There is no theory or answer I have to put forth here. I'm not uplifting or putting down any group of people. Its really mostly just something that popped into my field of consciousness earlier today. Now, at some later point I may decide to draw some conclusions. For today however, I'm just thinkin' out loud and just sayin...