everybody wants to be a nigga, but don't nobody wanna BE a nigga.

[moneda]

libra (Sept. 23rd-Oct. 23rd)
This week, just be friends. We know, we hate that "friendship" B.S. as much as the next bitter, jaded single person. But let's face it: many a beautiful relationship has blossomed from the seeds of a beautiful friendship. And even if they don't for you, at least you'll have a good friend to complain to about how you're

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[dg76]

i need new running shoes too. my knees are not happy.

that is so sad about the 3 year old. i think the person who posted that blog handled it in the best possible way though - hopefully that little girl will always remember that interaction with a black person and not whatever the adults around her are instilling in her. it's really tragic that people are still so completely ignorant and racist in this day and age. why can't we all just judge each person on their own personal merits and not on some preconceived notion of what they are based on what they look like?

[harlequinlocke]

There's truth in your statement. On the other hand color isn't the only form of marginalization, even within the spheres of race. I got mixed messages from it, but overall I liked the effort. Glad to see Nas can still spark some deep thoughts, I'll have to pick this one up.

[war4l]

I was 4 yrs old the first time I was told that I could never measure up to white people because of the color of my skin, and because of the fact that I wasn't born in the U.S. I was told that not only would I never measure up but that because of the fact that I wasn't white, I was by default "ugly". The girls who told me those things were also 4years old.
When I came home and told my mother what happened, she burst into tears. I can only imagine how furious and humiliated she must've felt for me and for our family (we had just arrived to the U.S.), meanwhile I still couldn't wrap my mind around the deeper implications of what the girls had said.

I wasn't even in kindergarden yet when I realized that my brown skin and my Mexican origin would be enough for people to look down on me. It's mind blowing how many of us people of color realize these things before we've even lost all our baby teeth.