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Sheesh! I just had a conversation with someone on Facebook about color issues.
Its amazing the different views out there!
Okay we know about the whites who hate blacks. I just had a conversation with a person who believed Black, specifically Black Africans ought to feel threatened by mixed people -Caribbeans, African Americans, etc. and for sure Biracials.
Those type of people -the person says- should be considered a half-caste. And until they breed in- i.e. get themselves blacker, they are "striving to make Blacks invisible."
What an attack!!!
How is it assumed, presumed that my black parents deliberately breed out? I'll admit I myself married a white guy. But my parents? They were both from Haiti from Haitians. the caribbean in and of itself, I supposed, is mixed so perhaps that's what you mean. The more caribbean babies that get born, the more African American babies that get born the more threatened Africans feel????
And if, by virtue of my very existence, i'm striving to "make us invisible" then there can't logically be any love towards me by Africans. Unless Africans like those who they claim are aiding in destroying them. which brings back the fear, "is there really nothing but love for the non-Black black folks"?
I totally don't reject blackness,nor Africans, etc. In fact I am only now beginning to understand your stance. Its almost as if the brown people of the world are a threat to both Blacks and Whites. So both groups use coercion to pressure this brown group -who are like voters sitting on the fence- to come to their side, the whites by shaming the brown about their lean towards black; and the blacks by claiming to have 'nothing but love' for us --but we gotta get blacker to have a non detrimental psychological title; some kind of whole sounding title.
Well, hmmmmmm...I have to go back to thinking about this but...it raises the question...perhaps its the browns that should unit (if they can ever get over hues and shades. if they can ever get over all the pressures surrounding them).
It would seem that based on this conversation, that the brown people are a "children of a lesser God" where the force and power that black holds joins with the force and the power that whites possess. I wonder if the goal of brown people should be to harness this new power and defy the whole color system -just shoot it right out of the earth.....
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"I just had a conversation with a person who believed Black, specifically Black Africans ought to feel threatened by mixed people -Caribbeans, African Americans, etc. and for sure Biracials."
Most black Americans are 17 to 18% white, and getting whiter.
Physical color in the scheme of things is irrelevant.
At one point, we were all one color. From that one color, all colors evolved.
I always thought that, if all the people of the world came together and procreated, we would once again see that First Color.
Blacks, I'm told, were the Atlantans, the first people to use technology at an advance stage, using airships that sailed across the skies, and used the power of crystals to develop technologies not since seen in our world--a world where many whites credit themselves as being superior by virtue of their superior technology.
Had the Library of Alexandria not been destroyed, we might have learned about many of this planets early civilizations, as well as their technologies--even the knowledge of how the pyramids were built.
Spiritual power, were it developed to its highest degree, would supplant physical power (advances in technology), and, where they were in competition, override it.
There was a NatGeo special that looked at the man from whom we all received our Y chromosome--all of us now living today, whether we're white, black, yellow, or brown.
With the utmost care in research, researchers determined, after searching for this man, using DNA markers, that he was black, and lived in Africa.
There's a people there now who are direct descendants.
You might be able to view it online. Google "Genetic Adam," or "Scientific Adam."
It's an amazing story. They even went so far as to reconstruct him.
HI First Domino,
"Spiritual power, were it developed to its highest degree, would supplant physical power (advances in technology), and, where they were in competition, override it."
i am so there! co-sign!
All this color business is political, because really its what's inside that matters and what we DO.
I fear the world is reaping all its injustice. Some were happy to have injustice as long as they were on top, but such cases never last like that. Eventually everything erods (sp?).
Anyway, I have to not let myself get sucked into these type of arguments/talks/discussions because they are so convoluted and I have such precious small space in my brain LOL. I don't need that.
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