Ive been asked, Why cant white people post a pic? My Response: We dont exclude whites as they have done to Our mothers, grandmothers, and great grandmothers. We would never think of perpetrating such discrimination upon another. Besides, Many of Us have a white Parents, Grandparents, or Ancestors in the Family at some point in our lineage; otherwise, wed All be as Black as a Moonless Midnight in December. But heres the Deal: Blacks - Negro People (see Carter G. Woodson) - have been constantly under attack ever since the chains came off. We live in a hegemonic society that applauds Our Failures as the Stereotypical Behavior of Impoverished Inbreeding while dismissing our Successes as nothing more than Statistical Anomalies, or, at best, the result of emulating the morals and values of dominant majority while eschewing Our Own. And, through it all, whatever Identity We manufacture as a result of our own ingenuity, our ability to adapt, or thru our own Works to emerge as a pluralistic Community is derided as an inferior byproduct of a Culture of Poverty. Who can forget Ice-T and NWA as political hot potatoes for their hardcore lyrics along with Ronald Reagans infamous welfare queen speech. Blacks answer to the 1st high-priced designer jeans, Jordache, was to spray paint elaborate ghetto designs on their cheap ones. From fashion trends to pop culture iconography, Negro People have unapologetically inspired or influenced Societal Evolution to some varying degree, yet ownership, retention, or just the anthology of such progression remains mired in ambiguity - elusive like sand running thru a childs fingers - because We - the progenitors of all that is Cool from AFros & Funk Music to Rap & Hip Hop - are only regarded as Contributors, never Inventors in the annuals of American History. Now, in the age of Obama, the public stock in the value of being Negro has never been lower than it is today. Just ask any Black gurl asking Santa for a white Barbie doll. It’s no longer sufficient to deny Blacks their own contribution to this Society, but it’s popular to foment the latent hatred of Negros that had always laid in wait just underneath the surface until it’s made manifest through overt racialized discourse carried out in the national Media at nearly every Tea Party Rally or overshadowing the tragedies that hit our communities like Trayvon Martin or gun violence in Chicago. With such terms as bi-racial, mixed race, etc. being used more often these days, liberals have once again out of some misguided attempt to falsely equate a race to that of an entire Culture summarily dismiss the 300 year one drop rule while further ethnically cleansing whatever cultural worth the Negro tradition had played apart in an individuals life. We are not just a race, we are a Culture and as such, we deserve - no Demand - a place in the Age of the Internet to Call Home. Beautiful Blackness exists in helping to provide a place of respite. A place where Negro People - their identity, their imagery, their very existence - can be both celebrated without the patronizing comments from the Left or the degrading opinions from the Right. I have no problem with those who self-identify as a white person to post a pic here, but this group isnt dependent upon their approval, nor their existence. Here we are free to determine our own Path and carve out how We want to Be Seen. We are Negro.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 06:58:06 +0000
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