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Thursday, December 8, 2016
Embracing Yourself
“I am black and I love myself." This was not always an
easy thing for me to say. As I grew up I used to hate my skin, my hair, and
race. Every day I would look at social media and think to myself "why don’t
I look like those girl”. I'm not what society deems as beautiful; I wasn't pale
with colored eyes and long straight hair. I was brown with kinky hair and brown
eyes. I would look at myself every day in the mirror and wish I could change
the way I looked. Society painted black women as unattractive, aggressive,
load, and with no class. Due to the way that black women are portrayed in
movies and TV shows. So, growing up I never wanted to be painted in this image
because I thought others wouldn't view me as socially acceptable. It wasn't
till senior year of high school everything switched for me. I started hanging out
with a group of black girls who didn't give a damn about what people thought of
them and loved every part of their blackness. Since then I have learned to love
the skin I am in and embrace who I am. Being a black woman in America isn't an easy thing so I created this
blog for black women to embrace their culture and talk about fears, struggles, insecurities,
to learn and love them self's. While providing others with insight of how black
women feel in society. Helping them become socially aware and possibly change the
view of black women.
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Growing up in an all white community, I felt afraid to embrace my culture and who I really was. And whenever I did, I would be persecuted by being called furociois names that were made to hurt me and diminish the importance of my existence. As a dark Nigerian female, I felt as though I didn't belong in the the community that resided in. I couldn't see the beauty and importance in myself. It took self-love, self-care, and motivation to release the insecurities and hate within in. And when I did, I was free and unchained. The mirror was clear and I was able to see that I was capable, intelligent, determined, and beautifully black!!
ReplyDeleteI can really connect to this, I remember back to those times i was in middle school and all the girls with pretty hair, expensive clothes and shoes and things would seem like competition. I went to prodominantly white rich schools, so I always felt like I had to compete with who jad the latest and the greatest. I also felt like I wasnt good enough, or pretty enough because I wasnt a white girl. I use to think that the whote girls were the better than me and I just wanted to be a white girl. Shortly after talking to my mom and dad, they made two things apparent to me, 1. That I'm not white and I shouldn't try to be something I'm not 2. I'm beautiful and perfect just the way I am. Since maturing and growing up, Iv'e seen that, and Iv'e realized that I should be proud of my background and culture, because it is unique and empowering to all others.
ReplyDeleteGrowing up as a black girl doing competitive figure skating was the most stressful thing. In a sea of young white girls with their older white patents I was always the black sheep. I was always told that I had to work harder just to be the same.
ReplyDeleteGrowing up black in a white community was not always easy. I was always pressured to fit certain stereotypes that I felt didn't define me. I was a victim to the usual comments that most black people in white communities experience such as "you talk white" and so and so "acts more black than you". I felt I needed to overcompensate for a part of me that was missing. Eventually through the years I learned that being black has no restrictions and that embracing who I was was more important that fitting stereotypes that other people placed on my community. I'm proud to be a strong black woman who had enough courage to be myself in spite of others opinions.
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