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“I am only just beginning to understand what it means to be a Black man in this country. It’s not something I’ll ever experience, but I need to get as close to it as possible. I am the mother of a Black son.”
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(Thanks Kimberly!) “Margarita Barry wants to celebrate women of every color. She has used her writing talent to do just that by creating a new magazine called Tint… ‘Our target audience is any woman 18-35…’”
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(Thanks Tariq!) UK article on white women who engage in sex tourism. Full of really disgusting terms like “rent-a-dread” and “black bamboo.”
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(Thanks Eric!) Right-click the link above to download an MP3 of this interview. Williams wrote “Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America– and What We Can Do About It.”
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(Thanks Tariq and Kimberly!) “The study by a doctoral student at the University of Georgia found skin tone more important than educational background for African-Americans seeking jobs, even if they have resumes superior to lighter-skinned black applicant
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(Thanks Kimberly!) The relationship between hair and identity is a charged topic for some young black women. What does your hair say about you? What image do you want to project?
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(Thanks Tori!) “…Whenever a reviewer praises my work as universal I get the same, tingly, back-of-neck sensation I get when a white person compliments me for being so articulate…”
Adrianna wrote:
I’ m not suprised about the study of doctoral student about colorism in looking for a job. That’s how our world work. It’s the who’s afraid of dark skinned man syndrome? People are insane.
Does Hair Make the Person? of course not but al ot of people are close minded and beleive that it does I think that this young lady is going to go to college and become cofortable with sporting a natural do. When I got to college that’s when it happened for me.
Posted 22 Aug 2006 at 5:34 pm ¶
Mystic_Rebel wrote:
The colorism thesis for job seekers saddened me. I live in a rural part of Southern Oregon and it just floors me when Whites have made statements to me or in front of me about seeing a dark skinned African American person and assuming that they were “bad.” These are people who get their reference to blacks by watching Hollywood TV shows and movies with black villians in them!
Posted 23 Aug 2006 at 3:42 am ¶