The world would be a better place if everyone thought like me.

 

I’m not saying that people need to agree with all of my thoughts and ideas, I just wish everyone would think for themselves and think openly… a lot more openly than some believe they already do.

 

I read an article the other day that dripped with ignorance disguised as insightfulness. 

 

If you want to put yourself through the suffering. Read here.  For my enlightened readers, this article will be a little tough to sit through but if you’re able to stomach it, go for it and let’s reflect on what we’ve come across for a moment…

Clearly there are many possible angry black woman tirades that I could go off on but honestly I just don’t have the energy for traditional arguments (that’s never been my style anyway). However, there are two notes that I would like to respectfully make to the author:

 

1. You think you gave a fair and balanced description of women of all shades but you didn’t. In fact your article just got more and more insulting the more I read. Aside from the obvious problem with saying that you yourself believe that women are favored over others because of their skin tone without challenging this notion, you actually try to put a silver-lining on this “fact” by insinuating that most light- skinned women are only good for their looks and dark-skinned women are ugly ducklings whose unfortunate skin color can be redeemed by their award-winning personalities.

 

I got the feeling that you were trying to highlight the pros and cons of light vs. dark skin, while also trying to show that each outshines the other in certain respects (an arguably flawed concept at inception) which you predictably failed at. However, you did succeed atone thing- insulting us both equally. 

 

Correct me if I’m wrong but I’m pretty sure there are just as many light-skinned women who want to be looked upon as superficial bimbos, as there are dark-skinned women who want to be looked upon as work horses  and these women are all clamoring to be your third “baby momma”  but for the rest of us… we’re still sitting around re-reading your article trying to find out where the good part was.

 

2. I hope you realize that your perception of the two “types” of black women is just that- a perception. I might be wrong, but you sure didn’t seem to ever acknowledge that fact in your article. You made it seem like certain women are inately more high-class, stuck-up, or well-to-do because of their color but never open up the floor to the idea that this is just what society dictates they are and not what they actually are.

 

Now, before you say it, I get it. There are a lot of women who act accordingly with the description that you gave them BUT this has more to do with the way they’ve come to perceive themselves in the reflection of our culture’s standard of beauty- a white standard of beauty.

 

It’s for these reasons that some yellow women have their noses in their air (unjustifiably if we follow your description) and why darker-skinned women hang their heads low for no apparent reason. I’m not saying you’re right by any means but I’m saying that your article reflects your opinion, your perspective, things you know to be true- without any depth. 

 

I got to the end of it and didn’t get your point. What was I supposed to get out of that article besides an account of your narrow perception of women? Maybe that’s all I was supposed to get but if that’s the case then I wished it would’ve been labeled as such. Something about the way you prefaced the article made it seem like you were gonna say something prolific and I quote “So I have decided to take on this topic once again and actually go deep”

*crickets*

I’m still waiting…

For the record, I’m brown and I have absolutely no qualms with being darker, especially at times like this… when I’m reminded that my skin doubles as ignorant black male repellant.