*Maybe the San Diego Reader should reconsider their titles for their magazine covers.
If Elizabeth Salaam, writer for the San Diego Reader, had such trust when she penned the most recent issue’s cover story, it was misplaced.
The editorial staff for the local periodical took her article about finding social and educational spaces near her community, where her children would be able to see people of color, and inexplicably titled it, “Afro Puffs.” They chose to run a photograph of a toddler pulling her natural hair. But most jarringly, they chose to run the following copy along with that image and headline:
The white girls like
the black guys,
and the Mexican girls
like the black guys,
and the Filipino girls
like the black guys,
and the black guys
like them, too.
But no one likes the black girls.
Read the rest of this crazy, well, interesting article at Clutch Magazine.
I won’t bother to read the article. It is true that no one likes the black girls. It is not new information.
I will not bother to read the article either because it will rehash the same old same old crap about dark vs light and I do not care to hear it. Black is beautiful period always has been and always will be. The little cutie on the cover is so precious.
Here we go again….I’m so sick of this propaganda forced down Black Women’s throat. It seems like we have been at war with the acceptance of the Euro beauty standards for a longgggg time but now it appears that they are trying to make us extinct. So sickening. Ugh!
So true…but I refuse to ‘bow’ or force myself to be concerned about those who line us against us. I definitely read it all and disseminate it wide and far. I think it’s best to deal with reality and as the saying goes…’ what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’. I actually feel a sense of calm having the ability to face these truths because you learn exactly how to deal with them. I believe those who hate Black women are actually bothered that they cannot conquer us…they simply cannot conquer those who have no love for them either.
if anything in this article were true, then why are they always trying to look like US ??? getting their hair permed to be curly or kinky, getting their skin tanned, butt implants, and dating black men???
I saw the article and dam near choked because I live here in San Diego… and let me tell you, the black people [we] here are soooooo divided! I see my people all the time around and about town… AND LET me tell you – people are so rude to just pass by and not even make eye contact nor speak to one another! The sista’s here are all over the white guys and brothers over the whites girls as well. I definitely don’t have a problem with interracial dating because I have dated several women outside of my race. The problem I have is: when one loses their identity to be with someone of another race and FORGETS the struggle their forefathers had to endure for them to have the life and trappings they are enjoying today! Like I mentioned earlier, we don’t stick together out here at all and our race is truly suffering from an identity crisis on a massive scale! When I see one of my OWN, whether down-trodden or “blinged-out” I give that person(s) the utmost respect and wish them well, but their are people that are so caught up on hating and not having anything positive to say that constantly berate their OWN so they can seem “down” with others! Let me tell you – there are some beautiful sista’s out here – but they won’t give a brother the time of day, but will dam near break their necks to chase after a white guy and brothers do the same as well with the white girls, too! The only time black people here stick to together is when one of us has been unlawfully killed by a cop or some racist group, then, you see people “pulling together” which is ONLY MOMENTARILY!!! Once again, here’s the ole adage….”we are our OWN worst enemy”! Harriet Tubman, MLK, Sojourner Truth and a host of other activists that died for our freedom would be “appalled” by the turnout of the Black Dream! Nuff said…
And this is what they call ‘progress’ but it only hurts and divides the Black community, but there’s no turning back now. Look up the writer’s photo to get a better idea…and here’s her story on link.
http://www.mamalitathebook.com/tag/elizabeth-salaam/
Article in SD Reader: “All I Want Is My Birth Story”
Monday, January 31st, 2011
This excellent article by writer Elizabeth Salaam, All I Want Is My Birth Story, was published on January 26, 2011 in the San Diego Reader. In it, Salaam tells how she was adopted at four months by a family in Boise Idaho, and for most of her life, her story started then.
You are absolutely correct!… If I could like your comment ten times, I would…
@timdogg, I’ve heard the same things from relatives who live out there. Looks like San Diego isn’t a place for me. I’m all for diversity but I love my chocolate cities and its so sad that many Blacks lose their identity and have no idea what people endured for us to enjoy their fruits of labor in the struggle. We still have a ways to go but darn it that’s insane for you not to acknowledge your own people.
Agreed!
I read the article and I did not find anything offensive. Even though the cover is telling the truth I think most sistas is taking it out of context. The article has nothing to do with the cover. One thing sistas have to understand is there is a difference between a man wanting to be with you or just be intimate with you. I’ve work with and still do work with man of other nationalities and one thing I’ve always notice when we get on the discussion of women all want to sleep with sistas or brag about how “they once slept with a black chick” but none say how they was in a relationship with or took a sista to meet their mother or friends. Don’t get fooled and deceived because they court you by taking you on dates or trips that they may seriously want a future with you, that’s just their culture. Not trying to generalize but just something I notice. Black love is beautiful. (Deuteronomy 7:3) Shalom.
“One thing sistas have to understand is there is a difference between a man wanting to be with you or just be intimate with you. I’ve work with and still do work with man of other nationalities and one thing I’ve always notice when we get on the discussion of women all want to sleep with sistas or brag about how “they once slept with a black chick” but none say how they was in a relationship with or took a sista to meet their mother or friends. Don’t get fooled and deceived because they court you by taking you on dates or trips that they may seriously want a future with you, that’s just their culture.”
I find the opposite to be true about nonblack men approaching us black women. The nonblack men are more serious when approaching me and they aren’t looking for any flings just serious relatioships and marriage. Black men seem to be the only ones playing. I choose not to casually date men from another race because their feeling seem to be deep and pure. I don’t casually date period. The ideas people usually have about black women have been shaped by media and movies. If there were at least 5 films this year portraying black women in a positive light I’m sure more men would flock to us. Look at the roles black women are given and those crazy tyler perry movies, all are very damaging. If you see us in t.v. like you have seen other races of women you too would love black women. Hispanic women are replacing us in films and videos. It is all the black mens choice. You should hear all of the things black men say about the white women they have slept with same old talk among men.
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