Black History Month --2

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Though I don't have a television, I can see from the many blogs out there that there are still studies being done to expose how bad it is to be black. lol! Studies show the worse thing you can do is be black, etc. I suppose these studies are important (I would sure like to find out who is behind these studies and why are they being conducted but anyway..). The by -product of these studies is that BF end up feeling crummy about themselves. But somehow its important to have these studies put out every so often. Why?

For one thing, its not a natural state to be crummy and down about one's self. These studies help to reinforce that feeling (in case we forgot and got happy for a hot second!) lol!

Well, I decided, in honor of Black History Month, to seek out through all the muck, and find good and positive studies. So here's what I found:

Studies show BF have diverse opinions and ideas (shocking!)

Studies in 2000 showed good self esteem in black children! (Self esteem study). This, despite that "pick the 'good' doll; white or black" study. (And what was that about? My sister wondered what was the purpose of that old study in the first place!)

Studies show in 2005 that hypertension, high blood pressure in Blacks is NOT genetic. A change in lifestyle is in order. Finished.

Studies show Blacks are more like to leave a hospice....to seek life extended care! How can that be, asked the scientists scratching their heads. So they chalked it to surely BF didn't know what a hospice was for inthe first place.

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Another thing I want to say, but not sure how to, so I'll just give a story that happened to me:

Long ago, when I was a kid, some other kids asked if I wanted to come and play with them. Of course I said yes. When we were outside some of the kids were telling me I needed to put sun screen on.

Honestly, I don't know about such things, but it does seem strange for a black girl -who's ancestry hails from Africa, and who's recent ancestry hails from the Carribean- that I should use sunscreen. Does anyone know more about this? I should block out the continental -ish sun when my family withstood a more stronger equatorial, or at least tropucal sun?

Again, I admit I don't know...

Black History Month

In honor of BHM (Black History Month), I want to write something special. I can't decide if I want to do "known" black/ dark personas from the Bible (I say known because I totally don't believe Jews were as white as the many you see in USA), or black comic book heros, funnies /most enjoyable clips from black sitcoms. or.........

Whatever, I want it to be joyful.