"Take the kinks out of your mind, not your hair..."
--Marcus Garvey
The TV series 'A Different World' debuted on NBC on September 24th, 1987; it was a spin-off of the wildly successful 'Cosby Show' and lasted six seasons on the network.
Now, I know I'm dating myself by saying this was one of my favorite shows on TV for several years. See, the Cosby Show was so rigidly catering to mainstream white audiences, that I really couldn't watch too much of it.
Actually, now, with shows like 'Basketball Wives' and the 'Love and Hip Hop' reality TV series, I wish the Cosby Show or something close to it would make a comeback.
Anyway, what the Cosby Show lacked, A Different World made up for in terms of being politically conscious at more of a 'down-to-earth' level; and even its 'earthiness' was tempered by all the young Black men and women in the show being college students. It was damn near perfection.
Cree played Winifred 'Freddie' Brooks on the show, and man, I was beyond smitten with this woman.
She has the same alluring traits that have, or had me attracted to Jill Scott; and those are a quasi-regal aire, and that new bohemian/earth mother-type vibe; lovely.
Fast forward a decade...or two later *smiles*; and I notice the ONLY kind of black woman I see on TV, is this woman. When I say this woman, I mean, the curly haired, light skinned, bi-ethnic looking black woman.
And any time I see a pure bred, or darker-skinned black woman, they're purposely being portrayed negatively as having boatloads of attitude (ala Love and Hip Hop, Basketball Wives, etc.)
Now, I readily admit, in the past, anytime I saw a curly haired, light skinned black woman, I'd almost drool; that's until I threw the white supremacist shackles off my psyche and saw them for what they really are...half-bred black women.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not casting aspersion on these women's characters; the majority of them that I've met are very endearing and sweet; but I'm the one who's different. Meaning, whenever I used to look at someone who's darker skinned, my white supremacist conditioning would kick in and I'd think, man, their skin's sooo dark!
Now, when I see anyone, especially a black woman, with a higher grade of melanin than mine, i.e. anyone who's darker skinned, I get real envious...and here's why...
Not only do increased amounts of melanin block the sun damage that causes most skin cancers in other people, it also acts to eradicate 'free radicals' in the skin. Meaning, your skin will tend to look younger (reference the saying 'Black don't crack'); and I think we've ALL noticed how darker skinned women tend to have flawless looking skin.
At least I have.
But there's another, greater advantage to having highly melanated skin; one rarely anybody talks or knows about.
Now, regarding this, here's a question: have you ever seen a white colored solar panel?
I didn't think so.
They're ALL Black; that's because the color Black is a better conductor of light and electricity.
And what are our thoughts biochemically? Answer: electric impulses.
So the Black woman or man who's got the darkest skin will literally be able to think more quickly than his white counter-part. Now, whether they capitalize on this is something different.
But don't take my word for this, go and look this fact up!
But I think we've all seen instances where Black people have shown they're quicker thinking; for instance, I remember when I was young, there was an incident where someone was running down the street waving a weapon in the air.
As a group of people ran by me, I ran with them; even though I didn't know what was going on. There was one white guy who looked past us trying to investigate what was going on, until he saw the guy with the weapon, then he ran.
White people's propensity to make good decisions when they're put under pressure, or danger, is when you'll usually see how deficient they are...mentally (i.e. they've got no common sense). Or their complete inability sometimes to handle the pressures Black people endure everyday, speaks to our being mentally stronger...and quicker thinking, thanks to melanin!
I remember when I was in high school, a darker skinned young women literally told me, "...man, God didn't give us nothing...we've got big lips and kinky hair..."
Funny, how lately, white women are injecting silicone into their lips (and butts) to make them look like ours, and fashioning their hair like black women; to the point where they're actually wearing weaves and hair extensions 'cause black women have made them popular.
Now, if you're a Black woman reading this, let me tell you why you should absolutely revere your kinkier hair--it's because it acts like an antenna allowing you access to higher spiritual frequencies...let me explain...
It's been proven that kinkier Black hair has higher levels of crystalline properties, and the most common component in quartz crystals is silicone...you know, the material they use in computer chips. And they use silicone in computer chips 'cause it's a better conductor of electricity (just like your darker Black skin); and being that hair is at the top of your head, the increased amounts of silicone in it acts with antenna-like qualities to connect you to higher spiritual realms. And again, don't take my word for any of this...go look this fact up!
And kinky Black hair is especially high in its silicone content when it's locked (Dreadlocks...actually, I just call them 'locks' 'cause there's nothing I dread about them).
Now, getting back to darker skin...I say, bottom line, darker Black skin just plain looks better!
For instance, check out this picture to the right of three sistas with varying skin tones.Which woman looks the prettiest?
In my eyes, it's the darker skinned sista, hands down!
And white supremacists tried to get slick here, by flanking the darker skinned sister between two lighter skinned sistas to make her look less desirable.
And the dark skinned sista still beats 'em both!
So, I've said all that to say this...especially if you're a darker skinned Black woman...
REVERE YOUR HAIR AND LOVE THE SKIN YOU'RE IN!!
Praise and pamper both as often as you can; 'cause contrary to what white supremacists would have you believe, both your hair and skin are working for you...not against you!
Ma'at Hotep and Sutekh (colloquialism in the Medu Netcher for Black Power!)
MontUHURU Mimia
P.S.
Shouts out to brotha 'Transcendenal Prodco' for creating this vid that explains the concept of Black hair acting as an antenna to access higher spiritual vibrations better than I ever could.
Check out 'Ancient Dreadlocks'...and enjoy!
P.P.S.
Some of the captions in this vid are too small to read on my Blog's miniature version of 'Ancient Dreadlocks'; in order to view them better, swipe your cursor over the vid's title and click onto it, this will take you to the YouTube page's expanded version of this vid; there, you can read all the captions clearly.
Dark skinned Lupita nyongo named people magazine most beautiful woman of 2014
ReplyDeleteLupita played a slave in a movie...that's not a victory.
DeleteIt's a victory for dark skinned women with low self esteem, that faces colorism discrimination in the dating world, and the entertainment industry.With no role models, Lupita is there hero and role model
DeleteDenzel washington played a slave an won a oscar in a movie too! Remember Glory
DeleteShe's the first dark skinned kenyan african to grace the cover! :-) She's not mixed race, she is 100% african. She also is lancome cosmectic first female of african descent to be signed with the top makeup brand. Her lancome cosmectic contract is said to be worth millions....
ReplyDeleteI wish my dark skinned sista's would stop letting black men make them feel bad about themselves. thr whole world says you're exotic and beautiful yet you are upset because the mentally damaged black man says something otherwise. wake up dark skinned sista's and know your worth!!
ReplyDeleteThe reason I created this Blog, as glib as it may sound, is to help eradicate the self-hatred that's so pervasive in the Black Diaspora.
ReplyDeleteAnd an integral part of doing that involves us realizing that we (Black people), have been conditioned more than any other ethnic group on the planet to hate and hurt ourselves and each other.
So I agree that there's a lot of Black men who say that they don't and won't date dark-skinned Black women; conversely, there's a lot of Black women who say they don't and won't date dark-skinned Black men.
So we all need to be open to the fact that BOTH BLACK MEN AND WOMEN SUFFER FROM THE SAME SELF-HATING SICKNESS.
And because of this, it's imperative that we treat each other with a measure of forgiveness, 'cause this is the first step towards truly healing the diaspora.
Please read my next post 'cause it deals with this subject directly, and leave a comment telling me what you think pro or con.
Thanks for commenting.
I for one am ashamed that I have been biased and also afraid of one of my race (Caucasion) growing up. Always beleiving that they were better than the darker-skinned people. When I finally realized that my grandmother was called a Mulatta, because her mother was Cherokee and her father was white. Well what does that make me? My father is a white man and my mother is the product of my grandmother. I believe they call that multi-racial since there's so many variegated colors combined. Call me black, African, Afro-American, I will never answer to anything other. We are humans first.
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