YOUR BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL, BUT WHAT ELSE IS IT?
I posed the question to my friends on Facebook, Twitter, and BGC; and I received a diverse array of responses. Here are some of the responses,
The responses:
“My black is PROUD!” – Sincerelyric
“My black is intelligent, inquisitive, critical, perceptive, humorous, thoughtful.” – Thetrudz
“My black is Artistic.” – BOOMJones
“My black is innovative and Intelligent.” – FemmeFatale Harris
“My black is resilient, strong, and unforgettable.” - Bright_Eyzx3
“My Black is storied.” – TheKabosh
“My black is creative…motivated..my black is a combination of many colors on a palette. My black is bold and has a voice…” – Cakezilla
“My black is bold and inspiring!” – srtyrck
“My black is bold, daring, humble, proud, courageous, & captivating.” - drniaimani
“My black is ancestrial, authentic, and metaphysical.” – Lifted_Truth
“My black is… undefinable, ever evolving, all encompassing, everlasting.” – UrFavCharity
“My black is loving, understanding, hopeful, free.” – LoveMrsBrenda
“My black is intellectually open.” – dreamphilosophy
“My black is aloof, passionate, sometimes egotistical, scientific, driven, going-somewhere-but-haven’t-quite-figured-it-out-yet.” J. Silver
“My Black is enduring.” – rebelsin
“My black is determined…Strong…Loving overall….sometimes militant.” – 25lighters
“My black is passionate, determined, intuitive, intellectual, and focused.” – _black_majik_x_
“My black is absolute, knowledgeable, mysterious, infinite.” – SonofBaldwin
Posted on January 22, 2011, in Questions, Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. 7 Comments.
Wow. Beautiful post. I love the plethora of responses.
Very beautiful and inspiring!
The one day I did not look on your Face book! damn…
Guess I’ll join.
“My black is the power of many rolled into one, demonstrating the strength, perseverance, love, and might of a people whose skin is sometimes sunkissed dark by the sun, or lightly toasted like the sands. My black is a testament, tribute, and a commitment to take what was offered to me and fight for what was not so the next generation can be even more free than I. My black is an exclusive truth made clear to the sight by the bright inner light within my people whose skin comes as dark as the night.”
Very Interesting! I don’t see the point in making my black out to be anything more than what it is – it’s no more mysterious than that! It’s a fact! It’s my nature and my nurture, my spirit and my soul. It’s my grandma’s calloused hands, my grandaddy’s fierce pride, my daddy’s survival in the face of destruction and my mama’s insistence that despite the obvious, there was nothing else but black that mattered. It’s the FBI coming looking for my brother for being a Panther, it’s my sister lip-synching Aretha, it’s walking through downtown shouting SOUL POWER at 10 years old. It’s the air I breathe and my aura, too. It’s in my speech because out of the abundance of the heart the mouth will speak, and it’s in my food because I am what I eat. It’s in my man’s hair, his lips, his nose and his spirit because he is a reflection of me/when we lay together I get up in a double-black funk and I don’t think you can get any blacker than that!
I just came across this through your Twitter feed, and I have to say I appreciate it. I have spent a long period of my life ashamed of my black identity. I never knew to think that with this black skin that I carry with me every day that I could erase the “Scarlet Letter” mentality that I have carried for so long. I guess if I could complete the statement, I would add that “My black is something that should never be taken for granted, nor something that I should be ashamed of.”
Thank you for starting this dialogue, and for helping me to do some serious reflection.
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