I know everyone has got into the habit of using the word black when referring to someone, but I personally find it a bit offensive, and I'm not even 'black'.
People have so many different coloured skintones, some African women have more milkier complexions, others darker. No one who is the actual colour 'black' exists, so why now, in the year 2007 do we use it to describe a person who's skin tone could range from light to dark? Chinese people are often referred to as yellow in a derogatory way, but when describing a Chinese person, we don't say 'that yellow guy'.
How do 'black' people feel about this word? Perhaps if people weren't such xenophobes and read up on other cultures, we could maybe learn to identify physical traits with their respective cultures i.e. being able to see the different between a dark-skinned somalian woman and a jamaican woman, as opposed to seeing them both as just 'black.
2007-05-21
04:25:50
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midsojo
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