January 22, 2012
On the saying “black is beautiful”

ethiopienne:

It’s not just an affirmation of our collective self-esteem as black women.
It’s not an attempt to degrade other peoples.

It is an attack on social standards that do denigrate people—namely, us.

Look around you. Open a magazine. Turn on your TV. What kinds of women are you seeing? What kinds of women are deemed most beautiful? What eye colors? What hairstyles?

Chances are, they’re white. And the token black women you see don’t look too different from them either.

So for us to rebel against a society that tells us we’re “scientifically” the least attractive of all women, that tells us our hair isn’t good enough the way it grows out of our heads, that makes our celebrities look more and more like white women every time we look—-that’s nothing short of revolutionary.

Black thought, anatomy, culture, and people are all beautiful.

(via sapphrikah)

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