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.

They resent our taking their men. Black men are two and a half times more likely to marry a white woman than a black woman is to marry a white man. Black women can point to that statistic in justifying their wrath. But in truth, black sisters, we’re after the sex, not the ringand these guys aren’t the marrying kind anyway.

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!”

Where does the term “nappy” originate? In the UK, we use the term instead of the word diaper.

There are still some groups of white people who are very racist and unwelcoming and are given some political power by likeminded white people who vote for them.

UK Blacks have fundamental differences to our white counterparts. A UK Black would almost always moisturize freshly bathed skin, even males. This isn’t necessarily so for our white counterparts.

Black people are black people, right? No matter where we are, we have the same traditions, experiences, knowledge and culture – don’t we? Or, do we?