Comments on: Just Because I’m Black Doesn’t Mean…

By: EnsomCityEmpress

EnsomCityEmpress — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:14:56 +0000

Thank the heavens someone said, im tired of being in boxes and categories that people put me in because of my nationality and race. I am Jamaican and i DONT like Bob Marley sue me!

By: Jst1BlckMn

Jst1BlckMn — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:13:55 +0000

…doesn’t mean I need to take up my rightful place as the only person who can bring into existance and therefore strengthen the 360 degrees of the Afrikan experience: the political, economic, family and community structures, sources and mediums of mass/group communication, marital, Afrikan love, parental, structured Afrikan childhood experience, cultural, spiritual, Afrikan holistic health, continental.

By: Mika Abdul

Mika Abdul — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:57:24 +0000

Just because I am black doesn’t mean:
-I will purchase a new Gucci bag before I pay bills
-I am fluent in ebonics
-I don’t watch Friends, Grey’s Anatomy or King of Queens
-My favorite television channel is BET
-My ancestors were slaves and/or native americans & I’m waiting for
reparations
-I don’t take in foster children for a check

By: bre

bre — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:15:16 +0000

just because i’m black, doesn’t mean i wear weave all the time. or do a ghetto girl pose. or follow lil wayne. or have dreds.

By: OsamaObama

OsamaObama — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:36:53 +0000

Just because I’m black doesn’t mean that Obama is my messiah.

By: Mohamed

Mohamed — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:55:06 +0000

because I am black does not mean
- that I am a drug addict
- that police are always looking for me
- that I hate white

By: boo

boo — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:54:07 +0000

just because i’m black that doesn’t mean that the African american diet is Chicken and biscuts.

By: Dels

Dels — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:26:48 +0000

The saddest part is that we stereotype and judge one another.

Just because I’m black doesn’t mean:

…I can’t enjoy sports other than basketball and football. I played tennis, was good at it, and thoroughly enjoyed it…

…I can only appreciate rap, r&b and hip hop… I played Violin and that was one of the most entertaining and enriching things I could ever have experienced. And I plan on learning to play my FAVORITE instrument soon… CELLO! (To me it sounds as if the finest velvet or silk was made into music…)

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:58:35 +0000

Does not mean we didn’t earn scholarships, but were handed to us because of Affirmative Action

Can’t adopt or be foster parents (and to children outside our own race)

That we don’t use cloth diapers.

That we can’t enjoy Daft Punk and detest 50 cent

That we didn’t take 3 years of Latin and 1 year of French in high school

That we would not be interested in joining the Peace Corps

That my best friend can’t be Hispanic

That we date outside our race because there are no good Black men

That we don’t watch C-SPAN.

That we watch reality t.v shows, period

That we can dance

Speak slang constantly

Don’t know our fathers’

Wish we had straight hair

That we are not paranoid about the New World Order

That I can’t have family members that make over $250,000, that are not in the entertaining business.

That we call each other ni%&^*s , bitches ,and ho’s on a regular base.

That we want hand outs and welfare (we are not multinational corporations :)

By: Childfree Sexpot

Childfree Sexpot — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:49:16 +0000

Just because I’m Black doesn’t mean…

I’m homophobic or against gay marriage (I love every gay person I’ve ever encountered)

I can’t be a feminist

I can’t love tofu

I identify with hip hop culture

I have multiple children by various men

I don’t love animals and respect them by choosing not to eat their flesh

I don’t have an amazing, ever present father who has been in my life the whole 28 years I’ve been living it