It is amusing to observe the Plantation Negro Thought Police in their attempts to enforce the most ghetto misconceptions attributed to the black experience. Consider the latest iteration of this phenomenon exemplified by DMG, The Plantation MD.You've heard the meme repeated like a Jigaboo mantra from time immemorial: "There exists a bias against black. A preference for white. Skin whitening creams and products that straighten hair are PROOF that there is a societal role that makes women dissatisfied with their appearance yada yada yawn ..."
Black Africans, Black Indians, Black Pacific Islanders, Black Americans, Black Dominicans, Black Brazilians, Black Asians, Black ... humans beings, have a wide variety of skin color and hair textures.Black hair texture in fact ranges from coiled to curly to straight. This readily observable truth stands in stark contrast to the core ignorance of the Jigaboo assumption that insists "straight hair" is a characteristic exclusive to "non-black people".
Therefor the meme which insists for example, that a black woman who desires to straighten her hair, no longer desires to be black is invalid. It is as ridiculous as insisting a white woman who tans her skin no longer wishes to be white. No. A black woman who straightens her hair ... simply wants straighter hair.
Jigaboos have internalized a meme conceived externally, that blackness, is derived solely of Africa. The Jigaboo assumes that "authentic" black is somehow limited to the Bantu archetype. The implication is that unless your hair is as nappy as a Soweto barbershop, you're not ... really ... black. Unless you can hold 2 Fifty Cent pieces in your nostrils ... you must be "mixed".
The Jigaboo assumption is a byproduct of the great Darwinian hoax that insists, without evidence, that man "came from" Africa. The truth is man is indigenous to the planet. His antediluvian diaspora is evidenced by black aboriginals located around the globe. The so-called "African-American" is actually an amalgamation of all kinds of Blackness.What a society considers beautiful is merely a meme.
Standards of beauty compete in the open marketplace of ideas. Eventually ideals are produced by the constant contest of extremes. The dark and curly often lighten and straighten. Just as the pale and straight often darken and perm.
Is there a bias against black in society?
Absolutely not.
Blackness is craved.
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Add anthropology course to the list of courses you need to study.
But, nice attempt to slide some Moorish pseudoscience into the conversation....it is your go to game.
Beautifully stated. I have been to damn near every continent and never noticed a fascination with "looking white" amongst most original people. I am sure there are a minority of perpetrators out there, but for the most part, standards of beauty are defined by the streets, wherever those streets might be.
I always thought this but didnt want to get into pointless debates with those "oppressors are everywhere" RBG cats.
Good drop!
Thank you Brother Asad! Thank you.
The appreciation is much appreciated.
lol. You are right. The "Oppressors Are Everywhere" negros can be aggressively ignorant.
(I won't say no names. DMG)
I get a kick out of Plantation educated Negros attempting to compromise that which they don't understand by mumbling ... "Moorish Science".
As if that nonsense spoon fed them in government schools is the epitome of the knowable.
After 40 years of propaganda disguised as "Black History Month", Jigaboos think their identity stops at Kunta Kinte.
Beware The Tyranny of The Mediocre.
i don't know too many chicks around my way who are carrying on about "good hair" and treating their natural, [oftentimes] nappy hair like a curse because they're trying to "broaden the scope of their blackness" and "lay claim to all corners of their kingdom"; or because they've been inspired by an internet pic of some blonde, straight-haired black woman from the outskirts of God knows where...
the exodus to straight hair may not necessarily mean that they want to abandon their racial identity, but from my experience, it does oftentimes have to do with them feeling there's something faulty about their appearance. and for most of the black women i know, there ain't nothing majestic about the origin of this complex. it's just another remnant from the plantation.
"the exodus to straight hair may not necessarily mean that they want to abandon their racial identity," bpwatds
true ...
"but from my experience, it does oftentimes have to do with them feeling there's something faulty about their appearance."
bpwatds
I don't know about that bra.
The assumption that the desire to alter one's appearance must be the product of "fault" is a bit ambitious.
For example.
When a brother goes to the barber shop on Saturday morning and asks for a "Caesar" ... instead of allowing his hair to grow out naturally and eventually become dreads ... is it because he assumes there is something at fault?
When stringy haired white women get perms ... is it because they feel there is something 'faulty' about their appearance?
I don't think so.
I don't think it's that deep.
When a female member of the African Lobi tribe inserts a plate in her lip ... does it mean she feels there is something faulty about her appearance that only a plate could fix?
I don't think so.
Humans have altered their appearance since they have existed. They have cut, curled, straightened, dyed, scarred, tarred, feathered, painted, burned and tattooed themselves from the beginning.
Black people must be careful not to too easily attach memes to their cosmetic modifications that perpetuate the myths that they are attempting to escape their blackness.
I don't think a 38 year old woman throwing a little relaxer in her hair is anymore of a rejection of her blackness than a 38 year old white woman smearing bronzer on her skin is a rejection of her whiteness.
However.
Negros have been perpetuating the Straight Hair Desire = Plantation Inspired Desire For Whiteness for decades.
They say its so.
But don't necessarily means it is so.
The point of this post is to escape the self-imposed mental prison which limits 'that which is black'.
So please tell them sistas round your way that Denmark Vesey said:
'THE WHOLE FUCKING PLANET IS BLACK.
Do what you want.'
Just follow the money: Adoption cost for white baby $35k, black baby $4k...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=91834&page=1
...."What a society considers beautiful is merely a meme.
Standards of beauty compete in the open marketplace of ideas. Eventually ideals are produced by the constant contest of extremes. The dark and curly often lighten and straighten. Just as the pale and straight often darken and perm.
Is there a bias against black in society?
Absolutely not.
Blackness is craved...."
This is interesting and intriguing... I like it. 'Oyan'
I couldn't agree more with your statement about black skin and hair texture. I happen to be darker than my sisters yet I have wavy hair, while they have curly hair. People often assume my hair is fake or that I'm mixed, beacuse surly a "dark skin" Somali cannot have "good hair" whatever that is.
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