A beautiful black woman. They made everything black ugly and evil. Look
in your dictionary and see the synonyms of the word ‘black.’ It’s always
something degrading and low and sinister.
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It’s been a mess in the US after yet another black male fell
victim to police brutality. I’d like to quote Dr Martin Luther King:
“If
the Negro is to be free, he must move down into the inner resources of
his own soul and sign with a pen and ink of self-assertive manhood his
own emancipation proclamation.
“Don’t
let anybody take your manhood. Be proud of our heritage. We don’t have
anything to be ashamed of. Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it
in language.
They made everything
black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionary and see the synonyms of the
word ‘black.’ It’s always something degrading and low and sinister.
Look
at the word ‘white,’ it’s always something pure and high and clean. I
want to get the language so right that everybody here will cry out,
‘Yes, I’m black, I’m proud of it!!’”
How
interesting. Are people conditioned, mentally and otherwise to think
negatively about the colour black? In the US, the black wire is the live
wire, while the white wire is the neutral wire.
This
colour-coding is unique to the US. For everyone else, it is red, not
black, that represents danger. Isn’t the devil always depicted as red?
AMAZING COLOUR
I
find black an amazing colour. Who doesn’t own a little black dress? Who
doesn’t wear black when trying to look formal and sophisticated?
Who
doesn’t turn to black lingerie when trying to look sexy? Who doesn’t
choose a black sports car over a white one? Who doesn’t choke in
frustration when invited to an all-white party?
And
if you ever want to buy me jewellery, please look no further than a
black diamond. They are exquisite. Black is powerful. Black represents
control. And you know how we all love money?
Well, talk to your accountant, he or she will tell you that “Being in the black” is a good thing!
When
my father died, the entire family wore white and cream suits to his
funeral. Who says that to mourn, one must only wear the colour wrongly
associated with bad things?
Why was
it called the black plague and not the white plague, given that it hit
Europe and not Africa? Perhaps someone should wear a smashing black
bridal gown one of these fine days. It’s a mysterious colour – strong
and contained.
In any case, no one
is actually black, are they? And no one is actually white either. It has
nothing to do with colour thing. It’s has to do with attitude.
Deep
down many Blacks don’t believe that they are equal to White man. Why
fight so hard to be called African American? What was wrong with Black
American?
They fought to get rid of
the word nigga but still use it among themselves, so much so that it’s
now a huge part of pop culture. Every white person into hip-hop screams
Nigga at their top of their lungs when we are not looking. It’s just a
word; I don’t see what the fuss is all about.
“You
dirty lowdown skanky whore!” is okay but “You dirty stinking nigga” is
bad? If someone decides to insult you, one word is not any worse than
another, in my opinion.
You are
afraid of the word because you feel inferior. It touches a nerve. How
many of you have ever bought your child a black doll? Anyone? How sad is
that? If MLK could speak from the grave, he would want all of us, not
just Americans, to sign our own emancipation proclamation. After all,
you don’t need shackles on your hands and feet to still be a slave
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