Melanin as U.N.I.T.Y
You're the problem if you find yourself mad at black women for celebrating their magic. Does my melanin offend you? Does it come as a surprise? It brings tears to my eyes when i think about how much i needed this melanin movement while i was growing up. I grew up in a time where black barbie dolls were a myth , feeling misplaced in their white Barbie & Ken world, excluded and even labelled as "token". There is so much under the surface , the deep-seeded pain of sitting in a history class for 12 years and learning about how black people all around the world have been robbed of their throne, their land, their freedom, their spiritual inclination - their souls. I have frequent flashbacks of sitting there as a minority in a classroom, in a country where our race is the majority by far; while the teacher stands there boasting about 'conquering' our heritage , raping our ancestors , and butchering my language. Young black wom...