Worth checking out
It's always astounding how people think one form of prejudice is different from another so it will be interesting to see the fall out from John Amaechi's revelation that he's gay.
Link to NPR talk:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7495602Labels: politics, society
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
