Showing posts with label Black Women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black Women. Show all posts

Monday, October 7, 2019

We Are Still Here

My race has endured a tremendous prejudice from the day Africa was discovered as the birthplace of humanity; we have suffered the lost of more lives than any other race as well! Hear our tribulations and afflictions documented here...

Unlike the Jews, our history is hidden... the terror that saw Leopold II murder and maim over ten million Congolese, the hundreds of thousands of us whose souls littered the oceanic trail of tears to America's shores, the 'low-hanging fruit stifling the sweet smell of magnolias... but we are here!

The year 1619, marks the beginning of our enslavement at the hands of America's Puritan ancestors! Our lineage obliviated through the degradation and manipulation of our gene pool... witness the 'good Christians' watching from their perches upon high. We are tainted, but we are still here!

My race has given far more good than the evil we have received in kind... oppression, persecution, and genocide mark our way of life, the beautiful melatonin gracing our skin entraps, stymies our path to freedom making painful to bear the disparate yoke, but we are still here!

We believe the writings from the Book of Guidance, the Tabloids of Moses written by His hand. For 400 hundreds years we have wandered this land, faithfully seeking the 'promise land'! Our burden, though enduring to such lost souls denotes with clarity... we are of Earth everlasting! Our blood transitions the bodies of humanity and so, we are still here!

Glory be to the Father of us all without whom we would surely have fallen! I write these words in commemoration of my Mother's mother's mother's mother's strength of character as embodied in hue of our complexion, and to the two women I believe to be the pillars of strength in my life... my Wife and my youngest daughter.

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Dark Girls - Bradinn French

Time and time again it is pointed out what racism does to the target of that bigotry.  I will scream with my loudest voice until the day that I die for the pain that dark-complexioned women endure.  How can you degrade your own race with attitudes such as this - and yet we do.

There is no unity within the Blacks of America and it deeply angers me.  My feelings are... if you have such low self-esteem for yourself, how can you ever expect another person... another race, to have a favorable view toward you and your race.

I am Black.  I have never wanted to be anything but what I am - Black!  I thank God for my great grandmother, born a slave, but every bit the true model of what Black women are - strong, patience, loving, and ooh so beautiful on the inside as well as the outside!  I was blessed to have a grandmother who taught me the value of self-esteem at an early age and I teach these truths to my daughters and granddaughters.

To my beautiful dark-complexioned Black sisters - harmed by the prejudices placed at your feet because of the deep, rich colour of your skin - I love you!


Dark Girls: Preview from Bradinn French on Vimeo.

Clips from Bradinn French's upcoming documentary exploring the deep-seated biases and attitudes about skin color---particularly dark skinned women, outside of and within the Black American culture.

In a democracy, silence is not golden; it is condonance in the face of injustices; it is fear, where the thought of reprisal fosters control – Rodney A. Davis