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.

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.