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.

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!”

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.

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.

You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us. But, when a white police officer shoots a black gang member or beats up a black drug dealer running from the law and posing a threat to society, you call him a racist.

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