Comments on: I Hate The Word “Exotic” & Here’s Why.. https://balleralert.com/i-hate-the-word-exotic-heres-why/ Entertainment & Lifestyle Tue, 20 Jul 2021 22:53:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Ray. A https://balleralert.com/i-hate-the-word-exotic-heres-why/#comment-196613 Tue, 20 Jul 2021 22:53:59 +0000 http://balleralert.com/profiles/blogs/i-hate-the-word-exotic-heres-why/#comment-196613 I see what you are saying. But the issue here is far, far more deep than just the misnomer of a word.
The fact is, that most Black people have a long standing colorism issue, originating from being brainwashed ever since slavery that all things Black is bad and ugly.
It’s a crying shame that we as a people haven’t been able to break these mental shackles so many years after the physical shackles of slavery have been removed.
It is not only with Black men but heavily with Black women as well. e. g. WNBA star Brittney Griner handpicked a white blond hair blue eyed male to provide the sperm to create the twins for she and her wife.
So tell me. What made her choose blond hair, blue eyes when both of these mom’s are Black?
It’s that same self-hating mindset that has been beaten into slaves 350 years ago and now just perpetuated over and over in this generation of freedom.
What’s the solution? Can’t see one. Back in the early 70s there was a push to get Black people to embrace their dark skin and love it. Black is Beautiful even became a popular saying!
Then the 80s came back with light brights is right feelings and (Michael Jackson and Prince, Debarge and many others quickly erased that 70s sentiment completely).

In the 90s there was an attempt to get back that 70s vibe. The young Black youth wore African medallions and groups like X Clan, Arrested Development and others tried to get people more unashamed of being dark, but the self hate was too engrained. The biggest rap artists, Lil Wayne, Kanye, Rick Ross, Murs and a plethora of others kept brainwashing the youth to prefer light skin over dark skin. Even though the main culprits almost always are dark skinned brothers themselves , they go out of their way to say how much they adore and desire light skin. So the word they choose to use in this era is nothing, compared to the mindset of it all embodies. I think we should despise the self hate. Not one of the words used in conjunction with the self hate. You know?
But anyways that’s all I have to say.
Peace.

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