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The Undeniable Aura of the First Black Lady…And Black Women in General

Michelle Obama DNC 2012

  1. “You know the same wound that prevents you from the mere thought of showing your natural hair (because it’s “nappy”), the same wound that caused little dark-skin girls (and grown women) to secretly wish they were a tone or two lighter, the same wound that identifies Beyonce as the black standard of beauty.” WHAT?! No, I don’t know, because this passage of text doesn’t apply to me and a lot of other black women. I Love my black skin that I inherited from my African ancestors and never wished to be any lighter than my dark brown skin already is. Also, I AM NOT MY HAIR. This is a slanted, pedestrian piece of crap of writing right there. SMH

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    • Just because it doesn’t apply to you personally doesn’t mean that it’s not reality for many young black women. There’s a reason the students in my high school classes used to argue about which of them had “Spanish” or “White” in them.

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