Melanin Drops: A POC Book

💡 Black Power

So, this is something I wrote yesterday after being inspired by wonder black people. I just want you to read it.

Activist Writings #1:

In today's society (especially in my area), there are some issue that needs to be addressed and fixed. Everyone wants to push it under the rug and make it the norm, but ain't nobody got time for that. The first issue I'll discuss is colorism and "racism" inside the black community. Secondly, I'll discuss the desensitizing to clearly offensive and suspicious non-Black or non-POC.

First, colorism and "racism" inside the black community. I think the fact that this is a problem hurts my heart way more than typical racism does. Colorism (also know as shadeism) is discrimination or prejudice based on social meanings attached to a specific skin color and more specifically the shade of the skin. So, for example, if you uplift a lighter skin person over a darker skin person solely or primarily because of skin color, you're expressing colorism. If you think about it, it is kinda similar to racism but not specifically with race.

I can guarantee that many people, maybe even you, are "colorist" in someone, or was at one point. Black people express on a very high degree, especially in media. A lighter skinned male/female is portrayed in a more positive light than a darker male/female. With men, they prefer a lighter woman and will openly say it all the time but get defensive if someone is racist towards them. I've even heard a boy say he liked this girl, her body, personality, all of the above, but solely because of her darker complexion he would never date her.

I have read into this some and learned that this ideology was deeply imbedded into our culture. Ever heard of the lighter skinned slaves worked in the house but the darker ones worked in the fields. This is if the slave master had a child with a black women and because the woman was black the child is automatically a slave. Just to be "nice" the slave master will allow that child to work in the house doing work not as strenuous as it would be out in the fields. If feeds off the idea that superiors were lighter, and that was already perceived from the fact that master where white but that fact that lighter people of your same race got treated better made it much more.

Another thing I learned in one of my classes is that back in the day, somewhere in Europe, if you were lighter you were of higher class. The reason this was is because the darker you were spoke that you had to work outside in the sun. That obviously mean that you weren't of higher class, which was not desirable at the time. This darker vs. lighter thing seems to have gone farther back than we can remember.

I think it is an issue of dividing the community. We need to focus on bringing us closer together. It is important to teach that skin color or any outer appearance shouldn't call for discrimination or prejudice or anyone. It really does at the end of the day truly matter about your inside, you personality and all things of that sort. It is important to gather everyone together and become united.

The black community definitely needs to learn to work together and unify for a greater cause. We cannot continue to do what has been done together. Do not let the negativity from the past creep back on us. We should gain knowledge from what happened in our past to create a better future. We all have the power to do it, so get up and let's make a lasting impact on the present and future.

And I will end with a question ..

How did you guys like this?

love,

black girl ki.

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