Noted writer and feminist Kendall presents a diverse, well thought out history of civil rights and gender here, which is a great overview for how difficult it is to be a woman and do anything right.
It’s okay to be Black or mixed, so long as you are grateful for light-skinned privilege and don’t get too big for your britches. I use that antebellum language deliberately because there is virtually no difference in perspective people just use different euphemisms to cover it. I had seen the way many white people reacted to Barack Obama’s presidency - to put it bluntly, no matter what they might say, there are a lot of white people who will, when actually faced with people of color being in positions of prestige or power, get real mad about the house n- getting uppity when they should have been happy with their proximity to whiteness (and thus proximity to respect) by simply being mulatto. was all of a sudden poised to become a PRINCESS*.Ī BROWN GIRL WAS GOING TO MARRY A LITERAL, REAL LIFE PRINCE.īeing a brown girl myself, I had no delusions about how people would treat Meghan Markle. But I couldn’t not pay attention when a biracial, brown girl from the U.S.
I have never particularly cared about royals.
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