"Black Features Are Beautiful. Black Women Are Not" - Amandla Stenberg

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Black people have no power and are at the bottom. If black people want things to change, then black folk will have to attain power :yeshrug:


All this beggin and whining will lead nowhere. Eventually people are going to start tuning all of this out. Then we will end up with benign neglect pt2
 

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Who cares about multitasking on dumb shyt like this though? That's my point whether you huff and puff ain't shyt going to change about them doing this and or the good music being good music but go ahead and multitask. Attack multiple trivial issues at the same damn time when your energy could be focused on bigger stuff but maybe this is big in your world. Its not in mine and that's where we have our differences

Black Beauty is not trivial. See that is the problem you don't even see the value in it yourself. You don't see the bigger picture. Healthy body and physical self image begets healthy self confidence which begets healthy black people which begets a healthy community.
 

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Nothing is stopping them and Black women do make their own styles hot but I don't see why you have an issue with what Amandla is saying. Calling out cultural theft is not a bad thing. What she is saying is right but I think you just don't like it coming from a Biracial young woman.

kylie jenner wearing cornrows is not some damn cultural theft, stop reducing our culture down to a damn hairstyle. funny part is BW will call a nikka dusty for rocking cornrows, but suddenly y'all protective of them.

also, ms stenberg is biracial, so where does she get off? she's half-appropriating the culture every time she takes a roll as a black female character
 

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Yes it does, Its a reason why Black Miss USA contestants place high when they have colored contacts and 20 inch weave or how about in Miss Universe when Black African contestants with natural hair barely even place. You not acknowledging this will only dig Black people further in to a cultural hole.

It's the reason why half of the coli men like exotic looking women who look nothing like their mother
Its the reason why their has never been a Black african miss universe with natural hair.
It's the reason why "nappy" hair is not presentable in work places.
It's the reason why black people code switch when talking to white people.
Its the reason why black men call each other ugly because they have broad noses and big lips.

You denying won't change anything the problems will still be there in your face.
What? Most people aren't in no dang beauty contest lol. Y'all stay online too fukking much that's all some of this stuff is telling me. People appreciate different versions of beauty so what? Why would somebody want somebody that look like they mama in the first place :scust: What kind of sick shyt you on? If you talking about marriage majority are married to black woman so again fukk are you talking about some cats online you don't to prove your point? Really??? Again I'll give you the contest stuff but like I said most people ain't in no Eurocentric contest fam. I see people wearing their natural hair all the time depending on the job but I'll give you that also. Everybody code switch so its no way on earth I'm giving you that. Who's going to talk in a professional setting like they are on the block? Man people call people ugly for various reason them just being a few of them. In closing majority of the shyt you kicking is honestly just junk and honestly the problem sitting in my face is the amount of insecure people out in the world whining about shyt that's IMO trivial.
 

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Who cares about multitasking on dumb shyt like this though? That's my point whether you huff and puff ain't shyt going to change about them doing this and or the good music being good music but go ahead and multitask. Attack multiple trivial issues at the same damn time when your energy could be focused on bigger stuff but maybe this is big in your world. Its not in mine and that's where we have our differences
I can attack both trivial and serious issues :skip:
 

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Black Beauty is not trivial. See that is the problem you don't even see the value in it yourself. You don't see the bigger picture. Healthy body and physical self image begets healthy self confidence which begets healthy black people which begets a healthy community.
It is trivial. You need to believe you are beautiful yourself. Strong arming folks to view you some way ain't going to work.
 

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I don't know my hair is natural, my eyes are brown, and I don't have white girl voice inflection pleighboi


So individual white men and white mass media are the same thing now? :mjlol:

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A bunch of group-thinking, dikk tugging cracker fakkits, yeah I think it's safe to assume they are the same thing
 

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It's crazy because it's like black women are objects. Everyone wants to be like us so badly but we don't get the respect that we should get.
Go to st0rmfr0nt and reddit to complain then. Stop begging white men to find you beautiful, it's not enough that black men love you and you love yourself. You bedwenches always need white men approval :troll:
 

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Damn i'm glad I grow up in a black city wit a bunch of hood boogers that wasn't exposed to so much cac influence, you suburban black women is a whole nother can of worms:snoop:ain't no way in the hell I would raise my daughter in the suburbs
 

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American women want to be appreciated by men of all races not just one.
Black women are really the only group in this country that don't get love for their feature.
well, I can just give my analysis from my own point of view (not saying i'm necessarily correct)

Most women, as a collective, want their men to appreciate them first and foremost before other men do.


I feel like the reason why black women always complain about other women engaging in cultural appropriation is because they dislike that they wont get the recognition or ownership of something that they were looked down upon for having/doing.
but now all of a sudden, it becomes a new fad when a woman of another ethnicity makes it more appealing to the mainstream, meanwhile getting more attention, which leads to more $$$$$$. Even if its something demeaning like twerking.

But Like I said, IMO the root of all this dissatisfaction is based on black men not laying down the structure and controlling anything in their communities from the economics to the media images.

Its even worse in America b/c women are bombarded with images of beautiful dainty white women(and asian women and hispanic women), meanwhile black women are shown as aggressive and angry and tough with nothing to counteract these negative images( which will in-turn make other races of men see view black women as more appealing beyond just a quick lay or 'slumming' .)

The only thing we got in America right now is rap videos (which are full of biracial and mixed latin women) and basketball wives/ Love and hip hop /RHW of ATL and even that is not all that good because, yeah they got beautiful women on these videos and shows but they still act tacky with no class whatsoever.


Its almost inevitable to not be affected by those images living in America or Europe being a minority, lack of resources, and lack of parental support and positive reinforcement from the media and parents as well.
 
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