African Opens a Dance Club in Tel Aviv
Bolli Impanem, an immigrant from Nigeria, who came to play for Hapoel Tel Aviv, has opened a dance club. Read more…
It’s one of many that have started so Africans from the Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Nigeria, and even the diaspora from the Americas and Europe can have places we feel comfortable.
My experiences in public have not been nearly as grim as for the average Black man in Israel. As discussed occasionally on one of my favorite blogs, The Obsidian Files, Black women aren’t seen as the same kind of threat that Black men are. Aside of guys here considering us an exotic…um…novelty, we’re not viewed as personally dangerous. So in the club scene, nobody’s really trying to keep us out, and security isn’t watching us, waiting for us to do something, anything, that will give them an excuse to bust some heads.
So it’s nice that a few places here and there are opening up where we can meet and dance with Black men, and just be women for a change. Even if we’re not viewed as dangerous, we do have to contend with stereotyping that is dangerous to us.
When I have the time, I’ll be exploring some clubs, the ones that are legal at least, and showing some love.
