After recently watching the reunion of the famed “Love & Hip Hop Atlanta”, I can only wonder if this is what our people have come to. Although I will admit to being a watcher of the show, it was just entertainment; well at first. As it progressed it became an interesting test of the state of mind of my Black people. When did classiness become taboo or just an ‘act’ for the public? When did we, as women, decide it was okay to be the ‘baddest b#$?*’ versus a queen? When did we become lost within our already lost generations of the past? When did material things start to hold more bearing on our minds and our lives than happiness or peace for that matter? When did our bodies begin to mean less than our minds?
Although I grew up in a time where there was a change starting in our minds, I never imagined our people being this shallow. It came to my attention when I ventured out and went to college. Now to be clear, I view myself in no higher elite status than those who have never attended college, lived on a campus and gotten a degree. But much like those who are a part of a group everyone is not included in, the experiences I have lived through are just not the same as my non-collegiate counterparts.
I learned through being around other races, which is something I’d never experienced, that we are very far removed from the reality of society as a people. We ARE a joke, and that is a FACT. Other races look at these ‘reality’ shows and laugh at Black women, Black people. We are no longer something to be desired, by our men or anyone else. We sit back and allow ourselves to be abused, mentally, physically and emotionally. We allow ourselves to be so hurt that we act replaceable. We allow ourselves to be Styrofoam plates versus fine china. And worse than allowing it, we are FINE with it.
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This is prelude to a series of articles on this topic. More to come!