Tag: racism
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Frustrated Black Girl
I’m frustrated. You tell black girls to love themselves, then set about praising everything that is opposite of who they might be: if it’s light skinned/white, skinny, petite, “demure”, small, wavy/straight haired, not “too loud”, certainly not too black or sure of itself. You tell them they can’t be all the things they are, to…
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Let Kids Be Kids
Newspapers often print negative stories of the lives of black children murdered–as though ONLY black teenagers do wrong stuff, as though those one or two instances tell you everything about who they are. News flash: black kids are kids, too. All teenagers do rotten things–they are impulsive, flighty, and otherwise silly. If they published every…
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The Free Indeed
I’ve watched women in my family and abroad shoulder weight that wasn’t their own to carry, bearing the burdens of wicked white people and miserable men and and needy children and soul sucking jobs and time consuming churches. The only places where they seemed to be able to cut loose was in the dances and…
Kisha Creates 