Black? My Cabbage Patch is Black? Isn’t everyone’s Black? Is mine abnormal? My aunt insured that I never played with a White doll. She understood something that I, at the time, could not. For young, Black girls, Positive Reinforcement is everything. There is power behind our play things and the choice between Black or White can spell the difference between self-love and self-loathing.

what happens if i, a black girl, ever have to meet his white racist family? where i’m on my WWJD kick today, what will i do when i’m staring racism in the face? Ofay Melee anyone?

So it may sound strange but I don’t fault these brothas for not marrying us, for not wrapping it up, for calling us out our names. Why? Because before we check them, we need to check ourselves.

I didn’t press him about it but I do wonder if she said, “OH NO! You can’t date a Black girl” or if it was more along the lines of, “BUT SHE’S A NIGGER!”

you have a vagina. get rid of that and you’ll be cured.

Allowing a white friend to call you nigga is akin to being at Walmart and in an effort to get your attention, instead of saying, AYE Kisha, he says, AYE BITCH!

The difference between African-American Pride, Latino Pride, Jewish Pride and White Pride is that, White Pride is usually based solely on skin color. When it’s your color and not your culture that unites you, that’s what makes you racist.

White women have benefited more from Affirmative Action than any other minority group.

Whether we choose to acknowledge it or not, her color matters. What does it say to Black women, Black girls all across the world that arguably the most powerful man in the world is married to a Black woman? And not just a any Black woman…a chocolate one? Ok, mocha-choco-latte…whatever, she ain’t “high yella” or “red bone” if you wanna go there and if you didn’t, I just did.

he doesn’t like her hair, which happens to be in dreadlocks. “why?” you ask. because DREADLOCKS REPRESENT POVERTY.

recently a visitor posted a reply to 9 Curly Hair Tips that I obviously didn’t like otherwise I wouldn’t be blogging about it.
This article was contradictory in some points. I will never take “curly hair” advice from someone who locked.
what never ceases to amaze me is the size of the teets on some African-American [...]

What do you think of White people with dreadlocks? Is it a lifestyle or hairstyle for them? Are they ever truly dreadlocked?

This morning in it’s editorial section the NY POST apologizes for a cartoon in Wednesday’s paper that had many across the country screaming foul.

I also believe that stronger you are, the more stubborn, tenacious and determined, the bigger the obstacles set before you. Why? You can’t stop a bull by merely asking it to slow down. Some of us need brick walls to stop our forward momentum, to make us be silent and wait.

Where 50 or so years ago the need for Black History month was evident, today by having a separate holiday, are we saying that we will forever be separate and unequal?