Editor’s Note: I have an open invitation to friends of the website to submit articles that they wish to have published on the site. So to that end we will get to experience the rants and musings of BLACK JUSTICE. She promised me that she’ll take no prisoners on her journey so I expect the streets to be littered with bodies. Get down or stay down because here comes BLACK JUSTICE…
There were so many ways that I thought and labored about how and what to write about. I wanted to write about relationships and romance, about the injustices Black women suffer all around the world or even about one of my first loves-this thing called hip hop music. But I decided it’s going to be about all of that wrapped up in a fat layer of humor topped with sarcasm and a little mean-spirited-ness.
Ever since me and my friend, known as ‘The Dallas’ talked about doing something together(in print only bitches) there was one subject that I really felt needed to be discussed or at least addressed. Also this article should be read while playing/downloading ‘Knucklehead’ by Grover Washington Jr. So here is the question of the day.
“When did Black women become one of the most hated people on the planet?”
Allow me to explain myself. In my travels and discussions with many different men, especially in the NYC area, people are filled with hate and disdain for Black women. What the fuck? Let’s get even a little deeper and really bring it out, these are the following comments that have been said to me about Black women over the last few months.
1) “All Black women want to do is be on welfare.” Said to me by an African bootyscratcher, illegal ass alien that has had no source of income for over a year.
2) “We don’t let Black women with short hair and dark skin in the clubs. Hell no!” Said to my best friend by a demented ass, no car having, punk-ass doorman that can’t afford to hang out at the clubs he stands in front of every night.
3) “I don’t talk to girls that are darker than me.” Said by a freakishly tall, professional basketball player that without his million dollar salary would never get any ass because he looks like a buck toothed, jaundiced, mentally challenged pelican.
It fills me with furious anger that even in this day and age according to the above comments my skin is still my sin? Well let me say that as a Chocolate Deluxe, fuck off! One of the greatest joys in my life is seeing Oprah making paper, Storm (the real Storm) lighting suckas up and Tyra with her perfectly coifed weaves holding it down! Another source of double happiness is when I lay in my man’s arms and our bodies form a Matrix of cinnamon brown and we both agree how beautiful it is to see that “brown skin” in the words of India.Arie. So on behalf of brown women everywhere, I love my skin, my nose, all that and I look forward to going on a vacation so I can lay out and attempt to go from Boogiedown brown to Black.
So here it is, I promise to try and give it to you at least once a month, maybe more if the inspiration hits me right. Please send feedback and let me know what you think. I would love to hear from men and women that have been affected by the new color lines that seem to be drawn everywhere.
black justice!
with a fist in the air…we are not the enemy. i think it’s vagina envy. back in the day everyone talked about penis envy…now the script has been flipped!
Every since I mistook a white girl for an ex of mine I’ve been trying deal with women darker than myself…I still shake when I think about it.
thats on point, whats with that? and yeah, basketball players are a joke. if there was no basketball they would be out picking fruit from trees with their long ass arms. Swat me an orange Rick Fox!
lowering my hand a little as I ask…can we really call people African bootyscratchers? in 2006? I don’t think i’ve heard that one since i was in grade school?
from my full lips to my mother of the universe hips…
from my nappy roots to my big ol’ foots…
I
LOVE
ME
SOME
ME!!
SAY IT LOUD, I’M BLACK AND I’M PROUD!
y’all don’t hear me….
@African bootyscratchers…don’t think “they” call us worse…but it’s all good ’cause we’re all really play-cousins!
THAT’S WHAT I’M SAYING I’LL SAY IT LOUD AND PROUD I LOVE BEING A BLACK WOMAN. WHEN I WAS YOUNGER I COULDN’T STAND BEING CALLED CHOCOLATE BECAUSE OF THINGS I’VE HEARD GROWN-UPS SAY ABOUT MY BROWN SKIN. WHEN I GOT OLDER I NOTICED HOW NICE MY DARK SKIN LEGS LOOKED IN A PAIR OF SHORT SHORTS AND SKIRTS OH MY! NOW WHEN I HEAR SOME ONE SAY HEY CHOCOLATE! I BLUSH INSTEAD OF FEELING INSULTED AS ADULTS WE REALLY GOT TO GET OVER THE RACISM WITH IN OUR RACE. AS A MATER OF FACT MY DAUGHTER IS HIGH YELLOW AND I’LL BE DAMNED IF SHE GONNA GROW UP THINKING SHE’S CUTER THAN THE NEXT CHOCOLATE GIRL CAUSE SHE LIGHT. I ‘M TEACHING HER NOW THAT ALL SHADES OF BROWN ARE BEAUTIFUL. I LET HER KNOW WE ARE ONE OF THE FEW RACES IF NOT THE ONLY BESIDES MIDDLE EASTERNS THAT CAN HAVE ALL COLORED BABIES. WHITE PEOPLE CAN’T DO THAT. AND THAT’S A BEATIFUL THANG! TO THIS DAY I KNOW GROWN ASS PEOPLE WHO DON’T ENJOY THE SKIN THEY’RE IN. WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE MY SKIN IS A PRETTY COPPER TONE AND I DIDN’T HAVE TO SIT IN THE SUN, USE A SELF TANNER, PAY A HUNDRED BUCKS FOR 3 SESSIONS IN THE TANNING BED EITHER . SHIT I REMEMBER WHEN WHITE GIRLS COULDN’T STAND HOW BEAUTIFULLY ROUND OUR BOOTY WAS NOW THEY GETTING SURGERY TO GET THAT TOO. THESE DUDES OUT HERE DON’T KNOW HOW GOOD THEY GOT IT WITH A SISTER. THESE WHITE GUYS LOVE THEM SOME BOOTY AND CHOCOLATE. BELIEVE ME I KNOW. I DON’T AGREE WITH ALL THE BOOTY IN THE T.V BUT I DO LOVE SEEING BUFFY THE BODY IN THE VIDEOS, JUST A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO YOU DID’T SEE NO BODY DARKER THAN A BROWN PAPER BAG IN THEM. ALL OF COCO’S FINEST STAND UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we are the foundation of this civilization.
if it wasnt for our labour there would be no “new” world, no America(s) and the Europe present day.
Black women literally birthed capitalism and that is why they fear us, and restrict us most.
Yeah sistas, preach on! (Uhhhh say, big man, could you forward a brutha that jpg? Need some new wallpaper. Lata.)
^right click bruh man, right click