A Girl Like Me
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Color is more than skin deep for young African-American women struggling to define themselves.
This film is licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/legalcode).
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Labels: politics, society
it's all in the eyes
So, my girlfriend sent me a link to this video. I won't say much, but I have often said that the best thing that ever happened to me was growing up in Ghana. The experience sheltered me from a lot of the pressures the West imposes on 'African' people to be straight-haired and light-skinned. I was just myself - I was the short kid, the silly kid, the smart kid, the bow-legged kid, but NEVER the BLACK kid. Colour never featured in the vocabulary that described me - the closest was, he's darker than X or he's lighter than Y, but that's it. I guess I should thank my Dad for uprooting me from London so early to grow up in Accra...
I'm not saying I don't know people who bleach their skin in Ghana though!! Funny world, sad world, odd world...
Labels: politics
