the treatment of dark-skinned women always seems to exist on a spectrum of extremes. it's either discrimination through colourism and misogynoir, or an overemphasis on their "chocolate", "melanin-rich", "nubian skin”. people rarely seem to just treat them as ordinary people.
So many ppl dont know that the space on buses is for wheelchair users first
Not mothers with buggy
And so many wheelchair users are being denied access to transport cause theres people with buggies refusing to fold and acting entitled thinking its their space
Pisses me off
That generation wore afros, rocked all sorts of fancy hairstyles, then grew up, went bald, and started hating young people with hair.
Coupled with their religious psychosis, we suffered at their hands.
For those who were asking how they can support the African nurses whose homes were burned down in Belfast two weeks ago, there is a link here! Please share!
i do not think nigerians are morally superior or anything but if nigerians were to ever act like this to foreigners today, there’d be a lot more nigerians decrying and rallying against it. but there’s a silence on this issue by south africans that implies tacit support.
In the sweep of history, admittedly not all that long, this is likely the most pathetic and most captured generation of black athletes there’s ever been.
I’m not shocked at the idea of ID one day being a requirement to access most of the internet. It was easy to predict that we were headed that way. Am I a fan? No. Is there anything we can do? No.