In 2014 Raven Symone told Oprah “I’m Not African American” & bcuz Oprah lowkey facilitated the backlash Raven’s comment was misconstrued… she sat down with Jason Lee in March of last year to finally explain what she meant! “I am a BLACK AMERICAN…I’m definitely Black! …I have no ties to Africa!” 👂🏾 …✊🏾🇺🇸
This is one of reasons I disagree with people who think just because they were born and raised in the US means they had the Black American experience
No, you had the 2nd gen Afro-immigrant experience and that's OK but not the BA experience
I think everyone should understand the root of the hatred. Barbie became a symbol for white privilege + Americanism, which Bratz rightfully disrupted in the 2000s.
as someone who has been doing genealogy research for my family, women should hyphen their name. it has been difficult to find much on the women in my family because their last name was changed in marriage. their identity is erased. we should all care less about a man’s legacy.