Yoo, I'm Kianna. So, I've really been inspired to write this book because of all the things going on it the Black/POC community. I've seen a lot of books but I wanted to start my own and give my own perspective. I will give opinions as well as facts...
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I'm gonna create a list for hall of stuff that gets on my nerves as a black girl. LEGGO!
1. Black Men Desiring Black Girls Just Because: This is the first because I thought of it first and I just posted about this as well. So I have no problem with interracial dating but I'm not gonna say, "It's so great, everyone should do it." It's not that deep at all but it's okay and if you wanna do it, do it.
It kind of like .. black men wanna "an upgrade", credibility. I mean I bet you that's how a good portion of men are even how us girls can be, we want a lighter skin person to show off. So yeah, like who you want and yes your may have preferences but don't say certain things about your race like, "Black girls safe dirty/ugly/too dark, etc." Especially when you generalize people .. come on now, we aren't all the same and that's an ignorant thing to say.
2. Never Getting Credit for Being Smart and Black: So, I take honors classes and soon I'm supposed to take AP classes. In my classes I have some black kids in my classes and there are a few black kids in my school with high high grades. This boy and girl, both Chinese came in two of my classes, (Biology Honors and Algebra 2 Honors) and now everyone thinks they are the smartest of the smartest. The girl, I know personally is definitely smart, and she is in 8th grade taking 9 and (I think) 10 grade classes. I don't ever ever get recognized for my smartness from my peers and only really my family calls me smart by I'm going very well. It's just I don't get chances to do stuff like that, I could be in 10 or 11 grade now but my school doesn't give us chances people skipping grades are people coming from other schools being in my school district period I never got a chance. So yeah, people don't wanna give us credit, at least in my school.
3. A Lighter Skinned vs A Darker Skinned Girl: I have noticed something around my peers. A lighter skinned girl that is pretty decent had a better chance of a boy wanting her than a really pretty darker skinned girl. I'm just saying I've noticed how much praise a pretty basic lighter skinned girl gets compare to a unique beautiful darker skinned girl. I don't know, I'm just saying, I know y'all know what I mean.
3. People Think I'm Stuck Up Because I'm an Introvert: I think the reason I don't have many friends and why people don't like me because I don't talk to much. I'm an introvert BECAUSE it's always been me and my momma or me and my grandma. I never had that many friends other than cousins and I don't have siblings that live with me or even in the same state. I just have always been by myself. I am not stuck up, I'm just not used to talking a lot to people even though I ironically talk too much but anyways. I am not stuck up but the exact opposite. Although lucky me, I HAVE NO FRIENDS.
4. Good Hair/Bad Hair: I have nothing else to say but, good hair is HEALTHY hair, bad hair is DAMAGED/UNHEALTHY hair.
5. Being Sexualized Since a CHILD: Y'all already know I have big breasts. So I always had to dress differently than others. Since 3rd or 4th grade, they have been pretty big and I have been taught to cover them up, it's wrong, you're asking to be sought after if you show them so that's all I knew. Y'all know from the other chapter what I feel.
