Category Self-Hate
To White Folks That Have Never Seen Super Light Skinned Negros Before
So, this is me. No makeup, no sorcery. This picture is a few years old. Nothing has changed. I suppose what they really mean when they think/say that I’m not black is that I don’t inspire their racist fears about black people. Or they could mean that black people don’t have certain looks. Not REAL […]
I became a black woman in Spokane. But, Rachel Dolezal, I was a black girl first | Alicia Walters | Comment is free | The Guardian
Dolezal’s specious claims to black ancestry and faux black identity could not have been sustained and she would not have been able to pass if black womanhood were seen and understood as more than skin – or weave – deep. Wearing black womanhood was apparently even enough for Dolezal’s “fellow” black leaders in Spokane, Washington, […]
#WrongSkin: Twitter campaign by white man who ‘identifies as being black’ goes viral – Mirror Online
He added: “I stand by #RachelDolezal.” The Sheffield student claims 10 per cent of people were born in the wrong skin – although offers no basis for that statistic. Another of his posts reads: “A person’s skin colour does not determine their ethnicity. “I have light skin yet I know in my heart I am […]
I’m Black and Egyptian, Not White
Mostafa Hefny has been fighting the US government for decades to be classified as black. The US erroneously classifies all Egyptians as white. Hefny has faced discrimination and ridicule for his quest to be classified as black. Yet he makes his case for the authentic blackness of ancient Egypt and challenges the historical falsehoods that […]
African women and skin bleaching: The case of singer Mshoza | InformAfrica.com
The pantsula queen also stupendously told Sunday Sun the following: “I love the fact that I look younger and my skin is clear. I want to be like Michael Jackson. I know that black is beautiful. I don’t hate being black. I’m just enhancing my beauty. I loved myself when I was dark, and I […]
Jim Crow lynchings more widespread than first thought, report concludes | World news | The Guardian
“The trauma and anguish that lynchings and racial violence created in this country continues to haunt us and to contaminate race relations and our criminal justice system in too many places across the country,” it concluded. The report, titled Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror, is the result of nearly five years […]
I’m tired of suppressing myself to get along with white people – Salon.com
“What’s happening in Ferguson?” one of my white roommates asked. “I heard some kid got shot or something like that.” The words clamored in my ears. How could he not know? Weren’t his Twitter, Instagram and Facebook feeds flooded with opinions and hashtags? I’m sure he meant nothing by his statement. We’re all ill-informed from […]
“African Homosexual Deamon” — Binyavanga’s Brief Treatise On Demonology | Brittle Paper
So, deamon of Homosexuality (French mum, English dad) and Pastor’s Son were very well educated. Shaka, they learned was into pain: thorns, shot spear stabs, soulful war cries. He taught them geopolitics and how to shield their websites. Shaka was not into women. Hated lesbians. Kabaka mwanga hated white people, kept trying to poison Imported […]
I Don’t Know What to Do With Good White People
In the wake of the Darren Wilson non-indictment, I’ve only deleted one racist Facebook friend. This friend, as barely a friend as a high school classmate can be, re-posted a rant calling rioters niggers. (She was not a good white person.) Most of my white friends have responded to recent events with empathy or outrage. […]
Glavin: Canadians have no reason to be smug about race | Ottawa Citizen
Comparing welfare rates makes Canada look far worse. Slightly more than 10 per cent of African-Americans are on welfare, but in Canada, roughly a third of Aboriginal people are on welfare or some other form of income assistance. Canada looks worse again when we look inside the prisons. African-Americans make up only about 12 per cent […]
The Terrible Truth About Bill Cosby | Alternet
I recognize Bill Cosby as a comedic genius, and black people — with good reason — don’t throw away our geniuses. Even when they beat and rape and kill women and abuse children. Far too often, racism becomes an excuse for us not to confront sexism. And internalized misogyny and victim-blaming keep Americans from ostracizing […]
Whipping Is A White Slavemaster Behavior | NOI Research Group
Editor’s Note: If you can deal with seeing past the obvious anti-Jewish tones that appear in this work and have the ability to read it objectively, a really serious ppint is being made here. It is unfortunate that the author choose to include ethnic references that can (and will) be utilised to discredit the essay, […]
Whiteness in the Psychological Imagination I The Hampton Institute
It is important to have a common understanding of the three critical terms that will be used repeatedly throughout this essay. These terms include psychological imagination, white people, and whiteness. Psychological imagination is used to describe the formulations and definitions of ideas and ideals that pertain to psychology-in the mainstream-as an academic discipline, and to […]
More Police Will Never Be a Solution to Black America’s Woes | The Nation
Fact is, black people can also be complicit in upholding the system of racism, having internalized the idea of black criminality and inferiority. Consider that during the 1980s, at the dawn of the crack epidemic, the War on Drugs had the support of many black activists. They saw it as a means of cleaning up […]
#FERGUSON “HANDS UP, NO HAND GUN” JOHN BOYE FT. TALIB KWELI
Michael Brown was wrongfully targeted for execution in order to antagonize the black population in Ferguson to riot and create “Unrest” in order to further racial divide. Why did the Ferguson “incident” happen just days away from the 50th anniversary of the Watts Riots?; Black Boule Cape Crusaders & FBI’s War on Black America “The […]
Could The Civil Rights Movement Have Happened In Today’s Militarized Police State? | Occupy.com
Bull Connor became legendary as the Birmingham public safety commissioner who ordered police dogs and fire hoses to be used on peaceful civil rights protesters in 1960s Alabama. Birmingham became known as “Bombingham” after multiple racially-motivated bombingsaimed at intimidating the city’s black residents rocked the city, from the North Smithfield neighborhood to the notorious 6th […]
On PBS, Rapper Nas is shown a receipt for the sale of his ancestors | I Love Black People
According to the Atlanta BlackStar, Nas revealed the information on the Television Critics Association panel. Regarding the finding, Nas stated, “First I was enraged when I looked at the bill of sale. I was like, that guy owned property owes me some cash. My people made him really wealthy, so maybe I should find his […]
Financial Juneteenth | Dame Dash Says Brand Expert Had Jay-Z Associated With Confederate Flag For a Check
In the clip, Dash says Black America is “the most retarded culture in the world,” for not sticking together. He discusses how slavery has perpetuated the cultural belief that when a person is successful, they can not share that success for fear of losing it. “For some reason, when Black people get something, they think […]
History of Lynching in the United States, Jana Evans Braziel
“Mob violence against African-Americans served four functions within southern society during the lynching era: to eradicate specific persons accused of crimes against the white community; as a mechanism of state-sanctioned terrorism designed to maintain a degree of leverage over the African-American population; to eliminate or neutralize competitors for social, economic, or political rewards; and as […]
China Denounces America’s Treatment of African Americans, Minorities | Ipetisut
According to a report of the Working Group of Experts on people of African descent to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations in August 2010, unemployment was a very serious issue for the Afro-descendant community in the United States, with levels of unemployment being, proportionately, four times higher among this population than in […]
Kenyan Supermodel Says She Whitened Her Skin Because Nicki Minaj and Rihanna Did It | Naturally Moi
Skin whitening can be dangerous but Sidika says she has to stay beautiful and for her, staying beautiful means staying as light as chemically possible.“Looking good is my business,” she said, according to Page Six. “My body is my business, nobody else’s but mine.”Thanks in part to celebrities like Sidika, self hatred is a booming […]
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