Monday, June 20, 2011
Passing & True Beauty: From the Point of View of Lil Wayne and others
Knowing your music and not only what, but who you listen to is a must for today's day and age. Rapper Lil Wayne is no exception to the rules. He set women back over a hundred years and caused controversy among black women in general because of his ideas of the "perfect women". Redish. This brings back the notion of passing. Passing is what most people used to determine beauty and opportunity among African American women and men who were of a mixed race or fair skinned. Lil Wayne was quoted from his song Right Above It (3:00 minutes into the song) by saying, "Beautiful black woman I bet that bitch look better red" which is his opinion but what does this say to young black girls around the nation? If you are not the same complexion of Nicki Minaj or Lauren London? Is our black not good enough? Lil Wayne believes that if our race is not mixed with with something, its not good enough, "My daughter is the first and last dark skinned child I will have.... I even have an Asian baby momma to be sure my child will gave good hair, too bad be had a son". Now he brings the notion of GOOD HAIR to the picture. Mind you, this is a DARK SKINNED DREAD HEAD who wants light skinned babies with "good hair". One of his affiliates was also quoted on saying that they, Young Money/Cash Money were allergic to chocolate, meaning dark skin women. Sounds like the Hitler syndrome to me when he wanted a race of people with blonde hair and blue eyes, but he didn't even have that his self.
As a matter of fact, how would we as African Amercians react if a person of a different race or nationality said this about black women who were of a darker complexion?
What happens when we (black women) began to discriminate and have racial slurs with each other instead of rising together. Reference to Nicki Minaj Did It On Em (2:48 minutes into the song) and what is the difference between what she said, and what Imus the radio host said about black women?
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