May 2011
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What is a privileged black person?
Written by Alexis Garrett Stodghill on May 25, 2011 10:07 am Click for More Next Post
Even though Black male unemployment is at a record low of 17%, African-American men are still suffering from the fallout of The Great Recession. According to MSNBC, the current…
What exactly is internalised racism and why is it such a big problem amongst minorities?
Internalised racism is the self hatred in ourselves because of the physical attributes that we have. It’s not just black women (who suffer the most from internalised racism), but it’s also amongst Asian…
I’ve steered away from the soapbox. I have not preached about this in a while but it seems like an awful lot of women who belong to my race are ashamed, embarrassed and wishing away their melanin. *Loud dramatic sigh* I don’t know where to begin but it really does hurt another part of my heart…
The big noise on Twitter last week was, arguably, an Anje Woodruffe post on Outlish.
Anje, a black woman, wanted nothing to do with black men. Says the allegedly reformed self-hater, “there was no black man good enough for me. There was no black man who could treat this woman right. What I was saying to myself […] was that I was too good for any black man, and he couldn’t ever be worth my time.”
Interesting, crazy reading.
