Monday, October 13, 2014

Why are black people so ashamed of their skin color and ethnicity? - 1

I can't help but question why it is that so many black people feel bad about themselves. It's like they are crazy or something. They bleach their skin, they wear blue contact lenses, they want to be white and they think white people are gods. They aren't comfortable in their own skin and sometimes they can get skin cancer from using skin lightning creams. And whenever you ask a black person where they are from, they say their great great great grandparents were white or Hispanics. And that they are mixed but sometimes it's not always true. They forgot where they came from and they are embarrassed of their family background and ethnicities. They praise Hispanics, Whites, and Asians calling them more desirable than their own kind. They say they are more respectful and feminine. Blacks are humans too and there was a time back in History in which a white man traveled to Congo and promised a man and his wife to bring his pigmy son to the United States. This white man put the boy Jack Ota Benga in a cage in the Bronx zoo. And gave him inhuman treatment. He was to entertain the guests. And there was a public outcry.

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