Written by Manali Jama In today’s society, there is a lot of backlash against the black community. The biggest would have to be the discrimination and unjust treatment that they face. As well as number of police murders committed against our black folks that police seem to get away with. These are all examples of things that have been occurring in the U.S. The Western society has a problem with the black community but this isn't anything new. We would think that this would have been a thing left in the past, but that is not the case. The funny thing is that there are many parts of the black culture that is unwanted, yet at the same time people still find ways to steal from it. For example, a black person will be made fun of for having large lips, but then white or non black beauty influencers such as Jessica Simpson, Lindsay Lohan, and Huda Kattan will go and inject their lips and now it's a hot new trend. Another example would be how black girls are made fun of for having nappy hair, and then the protective hairstyles that they use are considered “ghetto” and then taken from them and are appropriated. Black people are also made fun of for the darkness of their skin, yet people will spend money into getting fake tans and enjoy having tanner darker skin rather than their pale complexion. The black community doesn't only get resentment from white people, but yet from other communities within the POC (people of color) umbrella as well. In many communities, it is favorable to have lighter skin. People will go to the extent of bleaching their skin in order to have lighter skin. In some African communities, it is known that males prefer to marry a female with a lighter complexion than one who is darker in color. This creates self hate within the community of color. I have even seen this within my own community as well; my brother who is a tad bit darker than the rest of the family will get called things like “the literal black sheep of the family” or will make jokes about him being adopted. All because his skin complexion is darker compared to the rest of us. We should learn to be accepting to all and even ourselves. Today's society doesn't give enough credit to the creative ideas created by black individuals as well. For example PluggedNyc is a black owned clothing company that came up with camo designed clothing sets. Kylie Jenner had stole the idea from them after placing an order with the company. Without giving any form of credit, as a result taking business from the black owned company. It was wrong for her to take the idea in the first place for her own business benefit.
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March 2018
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