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rickysrose 
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Posted: Feb 11 2013 at 10:58pm |
 jonesable wrote:
I remember asking my great grandma about the Great Depression.
She was like what? Same ole same ole, didn't make no difference to them she said |
I miss being able to talk to my grandparents....It would be just about life in general......... it never got boring... They all came were around the same age one set from KY and other from NC yet had such situations that made their life sooooooooo different so it was an interesting pov of racism.
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I find myself getting so mad when we perpetuate the light vs dark skin and the good hair and bad hair that all started from slavery. To this day I have family members looking down on natural hair and my father begging me not to go natural and it's like we aren't breaking the cycle and I know things take time but... idk 
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Posted: Feb 11 2013 at 11:04pm |
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Honestly, most of our ancestors were more whitewashed than we are (and that's understandable)
There are alot of things that we look back on them and disapprove of (including the passing of the skin color and hair complexes)
I stay with my grandmother right now and I really have to bit my lip when she says the most ignorant of things. Also, she talks about her mother and her grandmother... they were real hard asses. Down right abusive tbh
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Posted: Feb 11 2013 at 11:06pm |
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I forgive them for that though,
I cannot imagine living through those times.
You're bound to be traumatized from it and they were just trying to survive .
That's why I had to temper my criticisms of Booker T Washington.
I do not agree but I definitely understand
That's a lie, I don't understand but I don't hold the things they had to bear and then had to adapt to against them.
We can look back and pick out the cons of integration but c'mon living in those times it completely reasonable why they wanted to feel like they belonged.
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Posted: Feb 11 2013 at 11:09pm |
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I understand what your saying Alias my great-grandmother says some crazy sh*t!!!!! Always talking about people being too dark and she says the most awful things about natural hair. She is very fair skinned and can be very stuck up because of it.
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Posted: Feb 11 2013 at 11:11pm |
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They would be disappointed.
Blacks
weren't considered people, they were mistreated even after slavery was
over and it took a century after slavery ended for blacks to get some
respect - civil rights' marches, anyone? -and now we see blacks
"proving" the point of some white supremacists: that blacks are thieves,
stupid (have you heard some of the rap and hip hop music?) and lazy
(men impregnating women and don't pay child support; women who have one
child after another and all they do is collect welfare paychecks).
They
would be happy to see black millionaires and billionaires; heck, just
blacks with a roof over their head, their children living with them and
not taken by some buyer, and able to vote, go to school AND get paid.
Sometimes
I look at some black men who think they are the sh!t and I think "If
this were the 60's I don't think he would fight for his rights".
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Posted: Feb 11 2013 at 11:12pm |
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The same way I feel about some of them I presume.
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Posted: Feb 11 2013 at 11:14pm |
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the fact that ppl don't care is a microcosm of the problems in the black community |
Thank you. So tired of those people with nothing inside their heads that they think it's funny to mock the thread.
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Posted: Feb 11 2013 at 11:14pm |
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Sometimes, I don't know if I should be disappointed in my fellow African Americans or feel sorry for us
Our situation is very complex. We didn't get here by ourselves. We aren't doing everything we can and I do feel that we have lost our way but that has been a meticulously orchestrated fate and it's amazing we aren't worse off
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