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In a Class of My Own

June 1, 2026June 1, 2026 adversity, African American, black skin, Chicago, class, half-human, hlaf-demon, IL, InuYasha, Marcus Garcia, Mexican, mix, pretend, Spanish

Marcus Garcia,
Chicago, IL

I chose these words that have been plucked straight out of InuYasha. If you aren’t familiar, InuYasha is about a half-demon who goes through much adversity and is often ridiculed for being both half-demon and half-human. During one fight, he yells out these words and proves himself as a worthy opponent against his full-demon enemy. I myself am a mix of Mexican and African American without really retaining the traits of falling into one group or the other so to speak. There’s something fascinating to me about someone who doesn’t fit in anywhere but finds solace in carving his own path that is deviant from either group. As much as I would love to learn Spanish, the few times I’ve tried to speak it has been ripped to shreds by someone who has spoken it since they were a kid while I was not. As much as I would love to pretend my skin is black, it still resembles a side of me I couldn’t fully connect to anyway. Yet I see both of these cultures as their own thing while I’m neither, and still find something to admire about both.

Bless Black Skin and Blue Uniforms

March 17, 2023March 17, 2023 American, black skin, blue collar, blue uniform, children, Durham, heart, NC, son, Tanya Adams

Tanya Adams,
Durham, NC.

Will my sons come to know a time when we are in a United State as Americans??? My heart grieves!

My Black is Best on Me

February 10, 2017February 22, 2021 Allure, Bantu knots, Black, black looks better, black skin, black women, Boxer Braids, Cornrows, Elle, expensive, gele, hair, hair piece, Injections. Street style, Kylie Jenner, Mini Buns, Newark, NJ, sashiki, Shani Ketema, skintone, Tans, teased, thickness, twerk, Vogue, white women

Shani Ketema,
Newark, NJ.

Mini Buns. Boxer Braids. Tans. Injections. Street style. TRANSLATION Bantu Knots, Cornrows, Black skin, thickness and what I’ve been wearing for years cause designer is expensive.

I’m beyond tired of hearing that my black looks better on the bodies of white America. It’s not fair that someone can buy my skintone in a store and spray it on them- especially if all my life I had to hear how bad it was to be colored this way. Especially if it took years for my older sister to love our skin. It’s not fair that my twerk means I have no self respect, but my friend Jenny’s twerk just means she’s having fun killing it. It’s definitely not fair that my hair- locked and curly is a problem on me but not a problem for the white women to whom Elle, Vogue and Allure appeal to. It’s not fair that Kylie Jenner has taken everything that I as a black girl was teased for and made it into something ‘litt’ for her own personal gain. I could go on and on about the other things that are coincidently okay on white women: my a**, my gele (Nigerian hair piece), my dashiki etc etc. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that black people in blonde weaves and blue contacts isn’t the same thing. It definitely is and I’ll entertain anyone who points that out. I’m just saying that I shouldn’t have to hear that my black looks better on a white woman.

Black Skin? Conditional Acceptance In Society

September 10, 2014 Acceptance, Barry M., black skin, Canada, neighborhood, school, society, socio-political, work

Barry M.,
Canada.

Whether at work, in school, in a neighbourhood… especially a new one you moved to, as a Black person, especially as a Black man your acceptance is conditional. Your every mistake is taken as a reason you do not belong. When you do right no one notices. Anyone is allowed to make negative comments about you and assign socio-politcal meaning (almost always negative) to your clothes, hair, personality, foods you eat, how you walk etc. If you do not fit in the pigeon hole for “one of the good ones” then you are tossed in the other pile. You are labeled in some negative way and any negative feelings are automatically validated if you do anything seen as “wrong” whether or not others are allowed to get away with such things.

The “condition” of acceptance is what ever those with power in the given setting consider perfection.

Affirmative action beneficiaries: mostly not poor

April 23, 2014 Affirmative Action, black skin, ghetto, Minority, Nathan Whitelight, poor, rich, value

Nathan Whitelight
USA

Liberals arguing for racial preferences in our government always give a sob story about a minority who grew up in the ghetto, unlike the Whites all of whom must have been middle class. This simply isn’t an accurate picture of the typical affirmative action beneficiary, most are themselves the children of middle class parents, often who have gone to college themselves. If the desire behind affirmative action is to help the impoverished that could easily be done. That isn’t the desire. The desire comes from people putting a greater value on Black skin.

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