-Me getting up in the morning, spending 45 mins on styling my hair and folks still calling it “just nappy” or “nappy looking”.
-One of my fair skinned Latina friends telling another fair skinned Latina friend that she is “Getting too much sun”. We all know that is code for don’t get too dark.
-Telling your children, who presumably have no medical issues, to “stay out of the sun or they’ll burn and be less attractive”.
-Saying, “some black people are really beautiful”.
We all know who the “some” consists of.
-Telling folks to not touch my hair and them responding with, “It wont mess it up. It’ll just look the same anyways.”
-Asking a dark skinned person, “Why would you even tan?”
-Calling anything with a black lead a “Hood” or “Ghetto” production.
-Always referring to the darker person as aggressive.
-Continuously commenting on how “other non-black people” are ‘always chill’.
-Asking for the name of a dance that has been developed by black people, asking for it to be demonstrated, but not wanting to do it because it “Looks stupid”.
-Saying something isn’t a big deal to a black person, when it centers around race, and it is CLEARLY a big deal to them.
-Suggesting an afro-ethnic, afro-centric body of work is too “complex” or too “complicated” to be featured at a venue.
I am gonna add on to this as I go.PART II
Anti-Blackness is…
-Feeling like you need to state the opinion that “you don’t find African people/ Black people or Dark skin attractive.” Bitch no one asked you.
-Hiding behind the lame and WEAK excuse of “Preference” when someone calls you out about your aversion to darker folks.
-Yelling out “Stop making everything about race! It’s not about race!” When someone has your lying self backed into a wall.
-Saying “All ____, (People, Lives, Issues) Matter!” in response to a black or African person airing their grievances over an oppression.
-Calling the Natural Hair Movement and the resurgence of Black People Loving themselves a “fad, that will pass.”
**Feel Free to add to this list. My mission is to come up with a thorough manual for all the basic muhfuckahs out here furthering and perpetuating our oppression, so they will understand what anti-blackness truly is.**
