My mother and I are both sick. Sick in two ways. She and I both are at our wits end with the way African-American women are presented on television. We decided to cuddle up and watch the premiere of Harry’s Law. When it is interupted by a ferial hair commercial with Beyonce as the spokesperson.

Why is it that she gets whiter and whiter? Here are pictures, you can see her get lighter and lighter.

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I mean,She’s powerful, she’s rich, she’s doing something with her life. Why does she feel like she has to follow? Why does she feel that the whiter her skin is the more she can do? She was a strong long before the blonde hair and the lighter skin? Why do African American women think they can only do great things if their skin is light, closer to white?

They’re just buying into the paper bag stereotype. I took a united States History class this semester. We got onto the topic of Slavery, and I love, how I’m the only black person, in the entire class. We were talking about Slavery, and no one knew about the paperbag. Even my professor. So I explained it to him.

That slaves would be chosen to be insides or outsides by comparing it to their skin tone. Why are we still buying into this bullshit? We finally have a black president and we’re still letting white people run shit.  My mother came up with a brilliant idea. She wanted to see what would happen, if we had an all black new station, with one white person, who worked in housekeeper, and see where that gets us. I told her, that it would get the building burned and it would be the 40’s-70’s all over again.

But it does raise a question doesn’t it? Why do we feel to be important we have to be white? If we talk proper, are we trying to be white? Don’t we remember when we were kings and queens in Africa? When we ruled, when We were important?

Does no one remember this?

Thoughts from Bunny Lips,

Kousagi