The furor over Puff Daddy's recent Casting Call for "White, Latina and Light-Skinned African-American Models"

[TheBlackList]

KOLA BOOF:

I am asking every BLACK MAN I know to please
answer this question.

Printed in RED is Troy Johnson's response to the furor over Puff Daddy's recent Casting CALL requesting "White, Latina and Light-Skinned African-American Models" only fo his new ads.

TROY said:

Yeah, I can't bring myself to get riled up about this issue. Who really other than the models who were excluded from the jobs gives a darn.

If his majesty Diddy decided he wanted dark skinned models this sister would be too busy twisting her tail in a Ciroc ad to launcha boycott.

Do guys actually buy Ciroc, cause some yellow gal is in (or not in) the ad with a shaded Diddy -- puhleese!

Seriously, I'm sure someone has determined that the fairer sisters, with straight hair, slender bodies, less pronounced facial features, have the broadest appeal to gents of all races.

While he may be attempting to capitalize on this I can't blame Diddy or even hip-hop for this...




I would like to ask YOU---with Black Men having general attitudes like this, who are young black girls supposed to think are their ENEMIES in this society?

And WHY shouldn't they hate black men?

Isn't it natural to come to hate someone who so obviously hates you?

I ask you this, because...you and others have said that I'm too hard on Black men.

It's even been suggested that I "hate" black men.

I have expressed very strong sentiments against
Black men whose Psychological and COLORIST abuse of Black Females is Publicly OVERT and for some bizzare reason "acceptable" by most of Black America.

Yet we're always called on to March for Black men's issues.

Every day...on Black websites....there are TONS of articles attacking
WHITE MEN for their Racist society and their POWER.

Yet quite flagrant in the Black Community is a profound disrespect and Abuse of Black women's images and their humanity...based solely on their skin color and Hair texture.

Why are the women like me who question it deemed HATERS of Black men?

I have given birth to 2 Black men. Not mixed--fully Black.

How many Black American men in 2009 can say that they love
Black Men enough to give birth to one?

Can ISHMAEL REED say it? Has he given birth to a Black man
or a Black child?

No...as he stated himself...his daughter could pass for an Arab.

Cloaked in the hood of "Black male rage"--he, a non-black, has
Whined all his life about the oppression of Black men...yet his balls
have not produced one.

So who is REALLY the enemy of Black Africoid people?

A bunch of Black men who don't have the courage to give birth to
to their own image?

With Academic Intellectuals like yourself in particular, Professor---do you
really not acknowledge that a huge bulk of the world's respect for White men, Chinese men, etc. derives from the fact that they insist on giving birth to their own image?

Yet we're the opposite. Tediously, we reproduce our master's image (white or Arab).

Isn't it the Dark skinned Woman who is really THE black woman?
Isn't it her who makes us truly Black?

And how in the name of GOD can we claim that there are no beautiful
BLACK women?

Thank God Harriet Tubman is not alive to day to witness what our people have become.

And when it comes to Black Men claiming that Black Women
Writers HATE black men....I think it's time to shut the fuck up.

Because it's quite obvious that a lot of BLACK MEN---hate their
damned selves.

KOLA BOOF
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[teri]

This is so typical of this lot of black so-called men. They suddenly get a little money and power and covet what the white man has, they have no pride trying to run away from what they are and it's often the darkest ones looking to whiten up. Unapologetically I have written them off and I date EXCLUSIVELY outside of my race because I meet men who accept me for myself and I don't have to try and be someone else nor impress anyone with who I am dating. They appreciate intelligence, sincerity and not the same shallow backwards mentality that these losers exhibit. If they weren't rich or famous they would be begging these women to notice them. They all know where they can go for perpetuating the myth that lighter is better. Better for whow? Their own sorry pathetic need to be accepted and show they've arrived. All of them can get permanently lost and that includes Puff Daddy of whatever they hell he calls himself because he don't impress me none, no matter what he owns, drives, wears of drinks and if it were based on my buying prowess, he and the others like him would be on welfare because I have never and will never spend one hard earned cent on their crappy products.

[teri]

This is so typical of this lot of black so-called men. They suddenly get a little money and power and covet what the white man has, they have no pride trying to run away from what they are and it's often the darkest ones looking to whiten up. Unapologetically I have written them off and I date EXCLUSIVELY outside of my race because I meet men who accept me for myself and I don't have to try and be someone else nor impress anyone with who I am dating. They appreciate intelligence, sincerity and not the same shallow backwards mentality that these losers exhibit. If they weren't rich or famous they would be begging these women to notice them. They all know where they can go for perpetuating the myth that lighter is better. Better for whow? Their own sorry pathetic need to be accepted and show they've arrived. All of them can get permanently lost and that includes Puff Daddy of whatever they hell he calls himself because he don't impress me none, no matter what he owns, drinks, wears of drinks and if it were based on my buying prowess, he and the others like him would be on welfare because I have never and will never spend one hard earned cent on their crappy products.

[Ulysses]

Okay, if before this moment you were a Puffy fanatic I can see your point
The guy that made the comment is right. Nobody with a mind of their own is going to be influenced to prefer whatever is being marketed after experiencing it, because of the models.

That's Kevin, my baby, all 6ft 6in, 265 lb, Hard core Death Metal post punk apocalyptic rapping, math nerd of him and his baby daughter Micah.

And his older sister Lisa

I like them even more than I love them.
I'd kill a brick and catch a bullet for them any day for no reason except they are here.

But I can't give birth or produce milk. Still I am proud to say that my children are an improvement on me! I can't tell you what their mothers think.

She's 25 and he's 22, I have spent their entire lives studying what they listen to and watch. My children have not paid attention to Sean, since he did the sound track for Godzilla. With the exception of his role in a "Raisin in the Sun" and the mention of a Justin's in Detroit, that never happened.

He's not important to their goals, dreams or aspirations. They understand that he is a product and a marketing device as much as if not more than the products he promotes and the people he employs or exploits (depending on your point of view). It's not like he's in France distilling vodka, cobbling shoes, hammering out the sheet metal of some exotic car or building tablet PCs he's a glorified sales rep.

And truth be told, there are the people that people want to look at, the people the people want to talk to, the people that others want to fix their toilets, the people that folks want to cook their dinners and the people that other people want to wake up with for the rest of their lives. Personally I don't want to see Bell Hooks in a thong doing a pole dance. I don't want Oprah Winfrey cooking my gnocci and I don't want B. Smith fixing my toilet. Just like I don't want Ice Cube to be my President or Will Smith to be my pizza boy.

You're right a lot of us hate our selves. I mean hell! We climb out of diapers feeling hated. Look at where who come from? If a brother's not an entertainer or just oozing with material things, who has anything note worthy to say? I mean when was the last time you heard a sister go haywire, shoutin' that Percy Lavon Julian, Mark Dean, Anthony Butts can get it with as much passion as any televised criminal, actor or athlete? It just don't work that way.

I'm not blaming anyone.

Still I argue all the time that Black folks, especially women don't articulate their dreams and therefore there are no dreams for boys to aspire to that someone outside of their own culture didn't invent and market for Black women to covet and Black men to labor to attain for the right to woo them.

A Black woman didn't make the dragon I chase and therefore I am not obligated to bring her his head when I finally win my trophy.
Still, sense I love my sisters, mother, grandmothers and daughter so much I most likely will lay the dragon's head at one of their feet.


Our love for you is not a debt, it is a gift!

[Rayfield A. Waller]

I second Ulysses' comment:

"You're right a lot of us hate our selves. I mean hell! We climb out of diapers feeling hated. Look at where who come from? If a brother's not an entertainer or just oozing with material things, who has anything note worthy to say? I mean when was the last time you heard a sister go haywire, shoutin' that Percy Lavon Julian, Mark Dean, Anthony Butts can get it with as much passion as any televised criminal, actor or athlete? It just don't work that way."

In other words, speaking as a Black man, fifty percent of the madness we all grew up in and live with and tend to pass on to our children is yours, Black woman. Nearly every Black woman I have ever loved has judged me not for my heart and mind or my spirit or even my love for her, but by my material success and/or how I look--my ability to mimic the power complex of White male identity and my skin color and hair texture.

Can a Black woman give birth to a self loving, dark skinned Black man loving, intellectual Black man loving woman? Or are you just as condemned as I am to 'give birth' to or raise, or witness, or even create whatever the hell the madness of Amerikka programs INTO you and what ever you give birth to? In other words, while you are barking bitter woofs at the moon (Puff Daddy of all people! When was the last time any of us saw Puff Daddy feed or comfort or cry over the homeless in our communities?), are you paying any attention to Calvin Butts? Or how about Calvin Hernton? Do Black women sing praises to Derek Bell, who writes books and does not look as 'fine' as NFL sports figure Kendrell Bell? Derek Bell resigned his position at Harvard after Harvard ignored his demand that Black female faculty be hired. His story is told, among other places, in the journal, "Black Issues in Higher Education:

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Archives 1997
From the 1997 Archives of
Black Issues In Higher Education

Derrick Bell: keeper of the flame - author of 'Confronting Authority' and Afro-American law professor at New York University

by Raoul Dennis
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Editor's note: No discussion of a commitment to diversity in higher education would be complete without talking to Derrick Bell. Unfortunately, as Black Issues was preparing the following article, Professor Bell fell ill and was unavailable for an interview. Black Issues is happy to report that at press time he was reported as doing better.

Professor Derrick A. Bell Jr. is known throughout academic circles under many names: The Race Man, The Steward, The Scold, The Pessimist, and The Realist, among others. He is often recognized as a pioneer of critical race theory and, perhaps most definitively, as the man who walked away from Harvard University.

When Bell went to Harvard University Law School in 1969 after years as a civil rights lawyer, his understanding was that his would be the first of several appointments of faculty of color. When he received tenure in 1971, he was still alone. And despite the appointment of some visiting professors, he remained alone on the faculty for many years. During that time he helped develop the notion of critical race theory, a collection of ideas that center on the way law has been used to enforce racism in the Western world.

In Confronting Authority, published in 1994, Bell describes his frustration with Harvard University: "Twenty years after hiring me as the school's first full-time [B]lack law professor, Harvard's diversity record at the Law School was poor and in the rest of the University appalling. Harvard's claim that it made goodfaith efforts to diversify its almost entirely [W]hite and male faculty was belied by the fact that not even one Latino, Asian, or Native American professor had joined the law faculty. Although over the years a half-dozen [B]lack men gained faculty appointments, Harvard had stood aside while women of color taught and earned tenured positions at other prestigious law schools, including Georgetown, New York University, and the University of Pennsylvania."

As much as the university held fast that it was actively seeking out potential minority hires, students as well as Bell got a different impression.

"They would talk to us about making changes," explains Sheryll Cashin, now a law professor at Georgetown University who was a student of Bell's during the late 1980s at Harvard. "But nothing would happen."

"Derrick was the most important mentor in legal education for years because he was the only Black man, for one thing," says Columbia University law professor Patricia Williams, who was a student of Bell's. "He took everyone seriously - especially Black women, which was rare."

Bell had already left the deanship of the law school at the University of Oregon in 1985, where he had relocated during a brief leave from Harvard. He left Oregon because the West Coast institution wouldn't tenure an Asian woman whom he thought deserved it.

Now he would do the same at Harvard. In 1990, he told his dean he was taking leave and would not return until the institution hired a woman of color.

"I cannot continue to urge students to take risks for what they believe," he told Boston Globe, "if I do not practice my own precepts."

Bell's decision sprang from his belief that ethnic and gender diversity brought new experiences and new ways of thinking, something which was brought home to him during the visiting professorship of Regina Austin at Harvard.

In his letter requesting leave, reprinted in part in Confronting Authority, he wrote: "Although I have never forgotten my representational function on this faculty, I was slow to recognize that as a [B]lack man, I am not able to understand, interpret, and articulate the very unique conditions and challenges [B]lack women face. While I urged the hiring of [B]lack women, I thought that as a [B]lack man I could both comprehend and represent the needs and interests of [B]lack women. A modicum of exposure to feminist writings, particularly those by [B]lack women, and Regina Austin's presence and effectiveness, have disabused me of this unintended but no less inexcusable presumptuousness. The large role our [B]lack women students are playing in the recent diversity protests here confirm their recognition of what should have been obvious to me years ago."

The first year of his leave passed with no woman of color hired. Bell took a job as a visiting professor at New York University. Then the second year of his leave passed. Harvard, citing tradition, refused to grant him a third year. And so Bell gave up his tenured position.

By taking this action, Bell showed that his passion for diversity was more than words and that he was willing to put his livelihood on the line. In the years since, that willingness to sacrifice has been an inspiration to others in academia.

"By taking the unpaid leave from Harvard and then resigning, Professor Bell's willingness to sacrifice personal gain for the public good is not only astonishing, it's simply edifying," says Michael Eric Dyson, a visiting distinguished professor at Columbia University.

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Not that I ultimately even BELIEVE in this bullsheit about so-called 'race'.

Race was invented by Europenas--or at least used for the first time for mass ideology and brain washing by European slave traders--to justify one of the greatest crimes in human history: the triangle slave trade, which turned slavery for the first time into a capitalist, profit driven, global industry and which stole millions of Africans from their homes and transported them into the Caribbean, and into North, Central, and South America to be chattel slaves, to die in the middle passage, to die in the cane fields or in the fires of the molasses industry, and if they lived, to suffer despair and self hatred.

Part of that self hatred is evident in our willingness to accept the European and the American mythology of 'race'. There is no such thing as "Black" people. There are no "Black" people in Africa--only Nigerians, Sudanese, Ghanaians, citizens of Cote d'Ivoire, South Afrikans, Mozambikans, Egyptians, Algerians, Ethiopians, Nilo-Saharan Nubians, Arabic Nubians, Kenyans, Congolese, Angolans, etc. There is no such place as "Blackland" or "Blackonia" or 'Colored Land'--there is no homeland called any of that.

African American writer, Chester Himes, who was a convicted criminal before he became an internationally recognized author, wrote about his own self hatred in the days before he discovered consciousness, in his book, "If He Hollers Let Him Go." Himes said that African Americans --"Black people" -- are THE FIRST NEW RACE in modern times. In other words, we were invented HERE, in captivity, in exile. We remain an exiled people by birth, not of this place, but not of Afrika either--obviously, since we insist on describing ourselves by our colors and not by national origins. In fact, some of us have ancestry in Niger, while some of us have ancestry in Muratania, while others of us have ancestry in Ethiopia. In reality, what would we have had to do with each other had we remained in our true countries (Afrika is not a country but a continent, an absolute diversity of a thousand nations!)? We are only here together because of the slave trade anyway! How the hell could we ever all be the same color, even before the rape and miscegenation of slavery?

In other words, why the hell WOULDN'T Ishamael Reed or any other African descended person have a child that looks Arabic? (DUH!!) Arabian genes run through us--we who come from the slavocracy of the south are almost all descended from captives stolen from NORTH west Africa. Self hatred is a legacy of the TRAUMA we went through to get here.

And here is where we are. Together. Men, women, light skinned, dark skinned, little heads, big heads, thick noses, keen noses, rusty feet, or golden caramel toes. Here we are, all together.

The question is, where do we GO from here? The answer is not to be found in Puffy's videos or anywhere else in the mass media/advertising industry/entertainment industry. The answers won't be found by carrying on the European lie of skin color, either. A Black woman is not more of an African woman because her skin is dark. There are African woman the color of yellow corn silk in Zamalek, Cairo, in Egypt; Cairo's richest suburb. Yet, there are African women whose skin is yellow who also beg for bronze King Farouk coins in downtown Cairo in Plaza Tahrir.There are European women whose skin is dark as tar who live in the area of Friedrichsrasse, just off the U6 U-bahn ramp in Central Berlin. I've seen them and spoken to them.

As far as it goes, too, no "Black" man or "Black" woman has any obligation to love a woman or to love a man because of the color of his or her skin. You can have the 'correct' dark skin and give birth to dozens of 'correctly' darkly colored children, and be a self hating, obnoxious ass.

All in all, the world does not look to us to going on bitching and moaning at each other about our skin color. The oppressed of the world look to African Americans, who sit and lie and live right in the belly of The Beast, and who have managed to elect one of our own to the pinnacle of power in the capital city of The Beast's kingdom, to lead the way toward human liberation.

The struggle against American hegemony is global, and encompasses ALL colors, ALL races, and ALL nations. Like it or not WE AFRICAN AMERICANS are placed by history in the vanguard of The Struggle. The wretched of the earth do not have any more patience with our self indulgence over our self hatred, and our same old carping, whining complaints over Black failure to love and accept each other (didn't we already cry these tears in the 60's, while Malcolm and Martin (dark skinned Black men) died for us, and while Angela Davis (Light skinned Black woman) went into exile, hunted like a dog by the FBI, and while Elain Brown (light skinned Black woman) tried to make us shut up and act, and while Assata Shakur (dark skinned Black woman) tried to make us pay attention TO THE REST OF THE AFRICAN WORLD, because it AIN'T JUST ABOUT US?

As Amerikka drops air fuel bombs and depleted uranium and chemicals and phosphorous bombs on women and children in Iraq, and soon will also be dropping them on the citizens of Somalia, what do we have to offer to the rest of the world? As the poor and the oppressed of the world struggle against our American armies (armies which are full of OUR CHILDREN, light skinned, and dark skinned, who support American oppression globally, and don't know any better because WE DID NOT TEACH THEM ANY BETTER), what do we have to offer to the struggle?

There is a curse on both our houses, Black men, Black women.

Continuing to linger in our own sorry regrets and recriminations toward each other is not the answer. Neither are Puffy's videos, and buying Ciroc, no matter what the color of the models on TV who sell it.

La Luta Continua

R A Waller

[Lyonezz]

Greetings Ulysses,

Uh okay....let’s look at the last line first......

You said:
"Our love for you is not a debt, it is a gift!"

The fact that you exist as a human is a gift, this is also true for the Black
Woman. Yet although we were all made by the Creator, somehow in that statement, you seem to leave out the part about the gift of the Black Woman to carry these boys (girls too but for the purpose of this statement) for nine months, GIVE BIRTH, feed them, change their dirty diapers, wipe their snotty noses, protect, shelter and last but certainly not least Love them so that they have an Opportunity to Grow UP and turn into a Black Man.

And this is where the pain comes from for the Black Woman. The pain and degradation to hear and see Black men desire and prefer women of other races that have minimal negroid features and hair texture. .Because her babies, are a part of her; a part of her Life Line…they are her Not as an object to be ruled, .not as a possession, but as a blessing to be nurtured, cultivated, to be taught, to be loved...

You said:
‘She's 25 and he's 22, I have spent their entire lives studying what they listen to and watch. My children have not paid attention to Sean,”

The parent is the first teacher, (Father or Mother, and hopefully both). Consequently parents have the greatest probability to influence children more than anyone else. Your children seem to have been blessed to you in their lives; yet while it is important to be aware of what our children watch and listen to, it is extremely important that parents are proactive rather than reactive by living the lives we want our children to emulate. It equally important to REAL EYES that hundreds and millions of children do not have examples to follow or any credible male role models to fashion themselves after. This is the argument I think the whole piece is about. To a child this society teaches the public that if you do not have the power, you are nothing. Money as the status symbol. So when people are in the lime light; shining like money… the children influenced by these types of people get the wrong message. They begin to hate themselves like everybody else. Hating themselves so deeply they have blocked out much of the pain they have felt every time they look in the mirror.

The Media is run by the powers at be who pretty much feed those kind of derogatory remarks to the public to keep the media hype going. Normally I would not respond to this kind of waste of our MINDS but if Brothers keep thinking and making remarks of this nature…The Unity our people so desperately need for our very survival will continue to elude us.

Peace,
Lyonezz

[Rayfield A. Waller]

Just for Clarity's sake, and to give props:

Malcolm and Martin

Angela Davis

Elaine Brown

Assata Shakur

[Ulysses]

"The fact that you exist as a human is a gift, this is also true for the Black
Woman. Yet although we were all made by the Creator, somehow in that statement, you seem to leave out the part about the gift of the Black Woman to carry these boys (girls too but for the purpose of this statement) for nine months, GIVE BIRTH, feed them, change their dirty diapers, wipe their snotty noses, protect, shelter and last but certainly not least Love them so that they have an Opportunity to Grow UP and turn into a Black Man."

Yep!

Creation is an intentional process.
I owe my Creator for my existence.
That means I am a premeditated product of design and the commandment in regards to that was at first, "Take care of your play space (all creation), give everything a name and while you're at it, look for some one to share your life with".

"And this is where the pain comes from for the Black Woman. The pain and degradation to hear and see Black men desire and prefer women of other races that have minimal negroid features and hair texture. .Because her babies, are a part of her; a part of her Life Line…they are her Not as an object to be ruled, .not as a possession, but as a blessing to be nurtured, cultivated, to be taught, to be loved..."

I don't discount one iota of sacrifice made by anyone who has ever toiled for the people they love.
I kind of think of myself as being like the rejected daughter in "King Lear", You get nothing extra, but I ain't asking for nothing extra.

I don't adore women because they look like or remind me of my mother or grandmother. In fact I only adore women who remind me of the human being I am striving to be. And I never, not ever confuse adoration with lust.

I can relate to that. I know what it is like to not be attractive to who I am attracted to.
I see people who could easily be my children, walking around like zombies, with no purpose, no hope, no dreams, and no goals other than what somebody in a little box gives them and I have these moments of wanting to wipe the planet clean and start over because they seem to have never known love.

Love that sits on the front porch snapping beans
Love that is found knelling on the side of beds, crying words of gratitude to someone that is not there
Love that give the flowers names
Love that wrings the chicken's neck
Love that is found knelling on the ground playing marbles, jacks and drawing stick figures in the dirt
Love that rakes the barren soil and uses old newspaper to wash the windows
Love that sits in too small chairs and pretends to sip tea with "The Princess"
Love that asks and means, "So, what did you learn today?"
Love that reads aloud
Love that seeks dreams for young minds to chase

We are expressions and products of love and desire.
You gotta admit there are just too many empty McDonald's wrappers littering the streets.

[Ari Merretazon]

KOLA BOOF:

Ashe! Ashe! Ashe! Troy is out of the natural order. Continue to say this as often as you can, anytime, anywhere, no matter the faces, places and spaces! There are Brothers-for-Real who support you and the principle of giving birth to your own kind. Keep On! I honor, and support you!

[Nicolette]

Yes Kola Boof you are 100% right.

The dark skinned black woman is the mother of the race.

WIthout her womb, we begin to lose Africa and our very essence.

She is the one who gives us our beautiful black skin and unique hair texture.
It is a hair texture, to quote your books and poems Kola Boof, that no other race has.

She is the one who black men have outlawed and claim is not beautiful unless she's
an old grandmother.

She is the one that black men will not show in music videos on BET or feature on the
cover of magazines like King and Black Men. Almost 90% of the women that black
men praise and idolize for Pro-creation are women who looked ambiguous and not
really black.

The message is as racist as any white man's message and it is surely destroying our daughters
and it is worsening our sons delusions about identity and beauty.

Most black men suffer astounding self-hatred. They literally don't want to be black,
therefore they hate and demonize the black woman because she, like you said,
is the one who makes them black.

They have embraced Eurocentric belief systems and convinced themselves that
having dark skin automatically makes any female masculine and unattractive. They
want the "coolness" of being black, but not the color.

You are totally right when you said they are not willing to give birth to a black man.

The whole world looks at these men such as Tiger Woods, Seal and Jaime Foxx and many
others and sees they are inferior because their children look totally white.

Black men have a terrible delusion. They actually think people don't notice that they are
giving birth to children who look nothing like our race and parading these kids around like
they would never parade a real black child in public.

They love anything Light skinned or Latin or White. "Other" makes these colorstruck black
men feel like they are human beings and not....well black.

Everywhere you go they call the White man the "devil." They are jealous of the white man and
want his power and strength. They curse everything about the white man. But many black men are hypocrites.

To a little dark skinned black girl who has been shunned all her life by black men, they are
the ones who are devils. Yet they're too stupid to see that.

What you wrote in a book is correct, Light skinned women benefit from colorism. So they support the black man in his evil.

Light skinned women pretend that this really doesn't matter, it's not important because it doesn't affect
her. She is delusional too, because she doesn't see that she's next in line.

The black man will now consider her "too ethnic" and dump his light skinned "stand-in" for a real Latina
or a real white woman. These stupid light skinned women don't see that this is all they've ever been
is stand-ins and imitations. They were created by slavery.

Yes, that's right.

Light skinned people do not come from some great tribe in Africa.

They were created by the slave trade.

So the lightskinned woman is really half owned by Europe and all of its ways. She is really not
a black queen, but the white people's history book has introduced her as a buffer. Her job is to
separate black men from their blackness and lead them to white women who in turn separate them
even more. The lightskinned woman is a hypocrite and a liar just like the black men who believe its
ok to be colorstruck and shun dark skinned people.

We can pretend that its easy to ignore Puffy and Troy and all these type of men. But the reality is
that they are the majority of black men. They are not the minority.

They are the majority.

So many of the people on these thread talk about Africa and black pride and being a black
man, but Kola Boof is right. You are not willing to tackle this issue that is starting to make
our whole race look like hypocrites.

You look the other way and delude yourself into thinking nobody sees what hypocrites we
are to degrade and hate our own mother for being dark skinned.

But the dark skinned woman is the true African beauty. Her blood is the most powerful
and her soul is the strongest that we have. She is the mother of this race and when you put
her down, you automatically put all of us down.

Black people need to give up rhetoric and get a brain. The problem is that many of these stupid
colorstruck black people live in their own BET worlds in the United States and they don't even
know what real black people are. They don't know what a real black woman looks like.

It damned sure ain't Angela Davis.

I agree with you 100% Kola Boof and I applaud those young sisters who are not standing for
this racism anymore. I applaud them for dating out of their race rather than be alone. I applaud
them for announcing their own beauty and protecting themselves against black men's hatefulness
and black men's blindness.

I am so tired of hearing that the White Man is the "devil." But notice the Black man wants to be
just like the devil. He even wants his children to look like the devil.

[Ulysses]

I still have a stupid crush on Tsidi Ibrahim & B. Smith, but you'd have to be paying attention to smaller less important people.