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Actually, Im African... What I found though, was that most people simply could not accept that by me claiming an African identity, that I could look the way I do. I’ve gotten everything from, But you’re so pretty, to No, your grandparents or somebody must be mixed or something. One of my sisters once told me her response to these intrusive questions was to reply that she is mixed, [w]ith slavery and oppression. Blackness is ubiquitously positioned to be the consistent antithesis of all that is good and valuable as it relates to beauty, intelligence and other characteristics of prestige or merit. With an indoctrinated ideology of anti-blackness, it is almost impossible for people to accept black as being beautiful in and of itself and so people dig to justify black beauty with a connection to any racial or ethnic other. We are taught and encouraged to disassociate from blackness.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 21:16:46 +0000

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