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comosehomo:

wingsandfins:

clingtomymouth:

shaanmichael:

mzreport:

I’m not mad at Sammy. I can’t relate but I understand why people would want to lighten their skin. I’m the opposite. I go tanning any chance I get. In every part of the Black World there are people using ridiculous and dangerous chemicals to lighten their skin. It makes me sad because I love black. I love black so black its blue.

I heard on the news this morning that Sosa is considering marketing this product he used. Being the official spokesperson for a deep seeded self-hatred that millions of Black people have for themselves. Sadly, I think the product would be a hit. Who doesn’t want to be lighter, make things easier, right? Being from the Dominican Republic, Sosa was born into a group of people that refuse to acknowledge their Black heritage. Much like Brazil and many regions of South America. In many of these places Black is synonymous with poor, dirty and unrecognized in society - in other words nothing anyone wants to be.

White supremacy is an ideology that stretches much further than the (US)American terrorist organization, the kkk. White Supremacy is a universal virus that has destroyed people of Black and Brown decent. It’s killed us, erased our history, enslaved us, raped us, lightened our skin, terrorized our minds and shunned our culture. There is just a little part of me that is patiently waiting, praying and hoping that one day, one day soon, we’ll stop hating ourselves and start hating the system that put us here.

I’m not mad at Sosa, I’m mad at the system that got us here.

I refuse to buy into this bullshit.

Yeah, I know people have hatred of who they are because of the negative connotations that go along with it in society, but this is fucking ridiculous.

Seriously?!

Ugh.

Buying into the system.

Lightening your skin to be “white” is doing nothing but feeding the bullshit cycle that has been going on for centuries.

Sosa is justifying all the bullshit that people of color are forced to endure, and essentially screaming to the world that “white is always right”.

Fuck that.

It’s bullshit, and it pisses me off.

dear sammy sosa-

YOU ARE BLACK. be black. the end. now you just look weird.  i am pale as hell. I GLOW IN THE DARK. and im going to stay this way.  you were dark.  stay that way!  everyone is beautiful just the way they are.

love, hannah

p.s. are your eyes a different color too?!