Readers, fellow bloggers, boys, girls, ladies and gentlemen....there was an issue that has been brought to my attention. To be quite frank, I have never felt this certain topic was still a serious issue in this day and age until I went to an HBC (Historical Black Community College). Apparently, this issue still plagues many black minds, an issue that I would like to call "slave mentality". This issue I am referring to is the idea of beauty within the black race. Repeatedly, I have heard, and read on sites like twitter ignorance such as "light skin is the best", "dark butts", "darkies", "whats better? light skin or dark skin?". Further more, you have hip-hop lyrics that promote an idea of beauty among black females that requires "light skin and long hair." WTF?!?! This video I encourage you readers to watch, although it is quite comical brings to your attention the issue that happened with hip hop artist Yung Berg in which he said "I dont like dark butts" and even developed a test for females. Although this event that happened with this artist may be old and outdated, the overall topic still lingers. So here I bring to you, the lovely B. Scott....
Beauty knows no color pigmentation. Im in love with brown skin, chocolate brown, honey brown, caramel brown...anything sweet! Because without a doubt black skin is sweet and beautiful. I believe that it is about time (nope , way past that time) that we have a major wake-up call when it comes to our perception of beauty. In this world and in this time, no longer can the black community still be haunted by the codes that slavery had implanted in our ancestors. This is the time to come together and embrace every color out there.
In black history during the time of segregation, do any of you recall a certain experiement that was done in which the NAACP requested a social psychologist by the name of Kenneth Clark to travel to Clarendon County in South Carolina and perform something called the "doll experiment"? This certain experiment was evaluating the psychological effects of segregation that young black children were being forced to face. Mr. Clark provided two dolls to each black student in the class. One was white and the other was black. What Mr. Clark discovered is that the students considered the white doll prettier and smarter than the black doll, indicating the feeling of racial inferiority. When Mr. Clark asked them to pick the doll most like themselves, "Many of the children became emotionally upset when they had to identify the doll they had rejected." Mr. Clark concluded that "segregation caused black children to reject themselves and their color and accept whites as desirable."
Now you guys tell me, is there any difference from then and now?
xoxo,
Lolita
ok this topic is the best but it is highly upsetting. i don't give a damn what shade you are in the black spectrum, whatever it is it's beautiful. i love me a chocolate man but i won't say light skin is bad. the most beautiful thing about being black is the fact that we have to many flavors to choose from. i mean, come on, what other race has the choice of caramel,dark chocolate, milk chocolate, buttermilk and everything sweet in between? we need to get it together and as far as these rappers go, i don't even pay them any mind because most of them are ignorant, and young burg needs to sit his punk ass down! lol, i'm light skinned with long hair but that makes me no better or more than a human or woman than a dark skinned woman with short hair, and where did we get the idea that only light skinned chicks have long hair? smh..
ReplyDeleteGirl, i REALLY feel you on this topic. I think about this all the time. Sadly, this has cause a certain insecurity in me and many other "dark" girls. Now I'm not black as they come, but I am surely far from white. It's said because we as people have allowed society to tell us what beauty or beautiful is and he have accepted it.
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