Still, blacks come by their color consciousness honestly. The income gap between light-skinned blacks and dark-skinned blacks is the same as the income gap between whites and blacks; more light-skinned blacks hold white-collar, professional jobs than darker-skinned ones. Pre-movement, black organizations played a role, using the "paper bag test" or combing applicants' hair to screen out the Negroid. In 2001 a black ad agency hired to launch a campaign for a black college was found to have rej...
A primera vista, le pudiera parecer a uno que Concha Buika es de Jamaica. Sin embargo, es de Mallorca, España de origen Guinea. Esencialmente es Africana pero Española culturalmente. Empero, su opinión se vuelve muy típico al tratar de racismo. A ella no importa últimamente lo que nos pasa a la gente negra, de hecho, haría todo hay en su haber a fin de evitar reconocerlo. Sin lugar a dudas, es talentosa pero tal como los demás, finge ser afrocéntrica únicamente cuando le conviene. E...
Posted by Tarus on Wednesday, September 2, 2009,
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Society
Dawah is a trip! He may very well be a radical, but I can assure you this: His kind is in far greater need today than most of the self-centered black bourgeoisie. Anyway here he is...
Posted by Lamont Cranston on Monday, August 24, 2009,
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Encouragement
This sistah is by far among the most attractive I've seen. I of course, have a strong predilection for dark-skinned women. However, this is unfortunate for me though because the darker they are...the lighter they seem to prefer their men. Anyway, enough about me!
I'm really digging this message. I think other sistahs should be inspired by it.
Posted by Tarus on Friday, June 26, 2009,
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Encouragement
I have a special appreciation for those of us that have decidedly forged ahead with dogged determination in learning other languages, especially ones commonly perceived as being too difficult. The undertaking of a foreign tongue cultivates the mind, character, and sometimes even the soul. It enables you to begin to value and understand to a certain degree other cultures, affording you greater insight, respect, and admiration.
This video is encouraging and proves that We (people of the Afric...
Posted by Tarus on Monday, June 8, 2009,
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Encouragement
So don't follow others who've apparently lost their way. You instead, place yourself @the vanguard. Get in shape, eat better if you need to! Improvement is always good, but don't go gettin' implants, nose jobs, and skin lighteners. By the way, this song is called Zandisile by Simphiwe Dana (S. African Jazz)
Posted by Tarus on Sunday, June 7, 2009,
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Xfiles
There are so many people who are not aware of how they have been indoctrinated since childhood to believe that everything white is better than who they were born to be...black. I can recall so easily of how my own mother unwittingly pushed the implicit agenda of self-hate by pinching my nose all the time to make it smaller and applying topical solutions to lighten my dark skin, which never submitted...Thankfully!
Posted by Tarus on Wednesday, April 29, 2009,
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Encouragement
She is a great example of someone who is fully aware of the many inequalities of the world but remains balanced. She doesn't allow one or a few bad dating experiences (if she's had any bad ones of course) to derail her or mortally corrupt her perception of black people. So, I've decided to include her occasional video blogs Dear Life: Living in Japan here. It's encouraging to see sistahs trying to admonish others in the hopes that they might become more enlightened and thus navigate through s...
