I cannot fathom the chill I get when someone calls me that. All my life I have been called that, no matter what neighborhood I lived in. I mostly hear, "Why you talk like dat?" and "You be round dem white people don't Chu?" from various people all time. Just because I pronounce my words and do things differently I’m white in the inside? It's the most annoying thing I hear all the time. Why do I have to be around all white people or not like black people? I do have friends that are outside of my race but plenty in my race. Sometimes the sad thing is that some people are actually thinking they are complementing me. Just a couple of days ago some guy was trying to approach me (obviously the wrong way) and I didn't hear him. When I said something back to him he said "ooh you like them white bwooys don’t cha ha-ha" that truly pissed me off. That's not the first time I heard that or something similar to that either. "Alexis you would be sooooooo cute with a white guy aha" why do I have to get with a white guy? I have nothing against interracial dating but why does it seem that way? It’s funny because I went to a movie with my long time best friend and her friend from school (which is a majority white all-girls private school) and she called me ghetto. I have never been called that in my life. So when I’m with my own race I act too “white” but when I go around white people I’m “ghetto” hmm? This is something I will never understand. I still feel like a little girl who in grade school who gets taunted by her classmates when someone call me those things.
This is another issue in the black community that we need to stop. Why do you have to be “white” to speak a certain way or like certain things? Light skin vs. Dark skin is also another issue here’s an article by Sierra Boone http://brownstonemagazine.com/hues-of-beauty you can also see her interview on Hello Jello J
Another rant by you know who.
-Alexis J.
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