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divercity usa thursday june 25 2009 jimmy kimmel s chimp handshake am i the only one who thinks the handshake in this video is a little suspect what are your thoughts posted by joanofalltrades at 4 37 pm 1 comments labels racism sunday may 10 2009 happy mother s day that beautiful woman in the picture with me is my mother this picture was taken 3 years ago on my wedding day in her backyard physically i am just like my mother we have the same smile the same shape the same feet the same walk the same freckles i guess you could say i m a brown version of her i ve mentioned in previous posts that i had an interesting childhood because even though both of my parents are black i was often treated as if i were biracial my mother is often mistaken for a white person because of her fair skin when i was little and my mother worked in my elementary school everyone just assumed she was white and assumed i was mixed either that or adopted never mind that i look just like her it s no secret that there is a lot of intraracism in the black community and a long history of people being plagued with color complexes recently one of my good friends asked me if i had a color complex growing up because i am the darkest person in my mother s family i had never really even thought about it until she asked me that question my answer was no and i have my mother to thank for that as a child i don t think i ever even knew i was darker than the rest of my family they never made the distinction my mother always made it a point to have black art and black images in our house she was proud of her brown babies and she showed us with her love every day i have always loved the color of my skin and i wouldn t trade it for the world i look at young black girls today and i see how they struggle with their identity trying to live up to society s standards of beauty it is hard to believe that you are beautiful when everything around you is telling you that you are not my mother has always said she has a ph d in motherhood and i agree she stayed home with me until i was old enough to stay home by myself she exposed me to different cultures and taught me to be proud of my blackness she has been with me through every triumph every heart ache every trial and every success in my life she always has a listening ear a lending hand and an insightful answer she is my mom and my friend she is more than i could ever dream of in a mother she is my blessing from god i ll always love my mama happy mother s day mom posted by joanofalltrades at 6 57 pm 5 comments labels children of color intraracism mom saturday february 21 2009 i don t understand there are several cultural things that i just don t understand please shed some light if you do i don t understand why i keep working in places where the children are obsessed with confederate flags and calling themselves rednecks i am asking any confederate flag toting redneck to please shed some light on this because i don t understand i don t understand why people think it s acceptable to ask me or anybody else if their hair is real first of all it s none of your business second of all why do you care third of all it s just plain rude i honestly think people think it s a compliment when they ask me this question but it s not it s insulting i don t understand why telling me that someone would want me to work for them because i am young and aggressive would be deemed as a compliment for some reason the combination of me being a woman being black being tall and being articulate makes me aggressive and intimidating i am so not aggressive in fact i m a bit of a chicken at times what is it about me that scares people i don t understand why cnn spent 12 hours yesterday talking about that stupid chimpanzee and only 2 minutes about the racist new york post cartoon i don t understand why people are still hating on barack obama please help me understand or feel free to let me know about anything that you don t understand posted by joanofalltrades at 10 11 pm 15 comments labels cultural differences thursday february 19 2009 drunken negro cookies shaking my head i normally don t like to give publicity to ignorant people on my blog but i have to make an exception for this fool guy because i would like to deter people from giving him anymore business i m going back to ny next week and i ve been contemplating on whether or not i m going to visit this bakery why you ask well how can we change the racist society we live in if we do not become an active part of the change not to mention i m still working on extracting the ignorancist out of me and becoming more inclusive my only problem is that i m not sure what i would say to him he is clearly very special as you can see from the video but that s what i have all of you for if i take the trip to the bakery what do you think i could say to get through to this man who obviously feels he s above admitting that he is being offensive in his actions posted by joanofalltrades at 12 00 am 8 comments labels barack obama drunken negro cookies ignorance monday january 12 2009 i refuse i refuse to give a name to this person who is ruining my quest to get the ignorancist out of me i refuse to give her him a name because the more we rant and rave and give this fool i mean person x airtime the more money he she will make off of his her ridiculous book if you don t know who i m talking about good if you do know who i m talking about you re probably as annoyed as i am and you won t give this person a dime or your time person x decided to criticize famous bi racial people such as barack obama b hussein obama as person x refers to him halle berry and alicia keys for referring to themselves as black and in turn discounting the white mothers who raised them and honoring the black fathers who left them shaking my head where exactly do i begin it s funny you mention the white mothers because just like it s not their fault that their ancestors created the social construct called racism which divided the human race into different groups and colors it s not the bi racial children s fault for society forcing them to check the black box because of the color of their skin in case you forgot light skinned black people used to pass for white just so they could be treated equally how do you think a bi racial child with brown skin would be treated if he she claimed to be white scratch that how would you be treated person x if you claimed to be black so before you criticize someone for making a choice that they really have no control over take your shoes off and try on someone else s size oh that s right you can t do that because your feet are so darn big how about closing your mouth and opening your mind posted by joanofalltrades at 3 19 pm 9 comments labels biracial ignorancist mixed race children friday january 2 2009 mixed race twins this is maybe the third story i ve seen like this in the past year apparently it is unusual for twins of mixed race parents to come out favoring one race more than the other even though this seems to be medically true i m not sure why this is so shocking to people black children come in various shades and their shades don t always resemble that of their parents regardless of that i feel sorry for these children because already at a young age people are putting way too much emphasis on the color of their skin i mean it was priceless when the father said i m still in shock you just love em the same um gee thanks dad because for a second there i thought you were going to treat the white children white and the black children black i hope that someone in these children s lives has enough sense to treat them and teach them as equals if society won t do it the parents should at least make an attempt posted by joanofalltrades at 5 02 pm 5 comments labels children of color mixed race children thursday december 25 2008 merry christmas around the world arabic milad majid brazilian feliz natal chinese cantonese gun tso sun tan gung haw sun ethiopian amharic melkin yelidet beaal french joyeux noel german froehliche weihnachten italian buone feste natalizie japanese shinnen omedeto kurisumasu omedeto korean sung tan chuk ha spanish feliz navidad tagalog maligayamg pasko masaganang bagong taon thai sawadee pee mai or souksan wan christmas urdu naya saal mubarak ho vietnamese chuc mung giang sinh yoruba e ku odun e ku iye dun posted by joanofalltrades at 12 00 am 0 comments labels christmas languages world older posts home subscribe to posts atom followers blog archive 2009 6 june 1 jimmy kimmel s chimp handshake may 1 february 2 january 2 2008 27 december 5 november 5 october 6 september 2 august 2 july 3 june 4 diversity links an allegory on racism warren ballentine truth fighters this i believe submit an essay about a belief race the power of an illusion obama biden 2008 aafroqween sanctuary implicit association tests test your bias my favorite blogs