As a community, we have come a long way to fight against oppression. We had the civil rights movement, we have fought for equality and much much more. We have achieved so much as a community and reached a point where we have the ability to say whatever it is we want to say, be wherever we want to be and do whatever we want to do. However despite all of the things we have accomplished and how far we have come, we still have a very long way to go. Our brothers and sisters are still being killed and brutality treated by the police, we are still being discriminated against and there is a lot of healing and restoration that needs to take place in our community in order for us to continue to excel.
Part of the reason there are still so many alarming issues within our community that seem never to be adressed or confronted is due to the lack of (self) awareness most of us as black people suffer from. Only a few of us pay close attention to the things we as blacks face in society, how we stand and what type of issues some of us face. Not a lot of us know what the meaning of our blackness is; what separates us from all others, what defines our blackness and how we define our blackness as individual. Is our blackness defined by the the deepness of our skin, or the with of our noses? The kinky/curly texture of our hair or the fullness of our lips? What defines blackness?
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Confessions of a Woke Black Girl
Non-FictionThese are the confessions of a woke black girl. Every single that I find myself on this earth, I observe different problematic issues surrounding and within the black community as a collective. Issues that I believe are so obvious and alarming and...
