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spartan eye picturing the bleak skip to content spartan eye picturing the bleak desperados published on october 24 2024 by chrisrenney 1 comment image categories photography tags alcohol beer colourful desperados late night drinks merthyr tydfil street trash best in show published on october 24 2024 by chrisrenney 1 comment image categories photography tags country life county show farming herefordshire judging livestock oliver hardy published on october 24 2024 by chrisrenney leave a comment serenade categories photography troubadors published on october 24 2024 by chrisrenney 3 comments image categories photography tags busking joy morecambe bay music seaside guest post david france published on may 16 2021 by chrisrenney leave a comment when did i first realise i was black i recently heard a question that has stuck with me and had me wondering if every black person has experienced that moment the question is do i remember the exact moment when i realised i was black growing up black in the caribbean like i did is much different from growing up black in the usa and it didn t take long for me to notice that difference thankfully i came up in a pro black environment so i ve always been conscious of the beauty behind my skin tone unlike in the us it was black everything black family black friends black teachers black people holding political office that was my norm so when i heard about racism growing up it was via history books not as a personal experience of mine of course caribbean history like that of every other country is far from perfect including the christopher columbus sham but i did learn of some great men and women throughout caribbean history and it wasn t one designated month of the year i m dark skinned which i quickly learnt in this society isn t always as welcoming as the lighter shade of black you learn that your first day at school children are the most honest people in the world and the most curious as well what do you say when you re asked why your skin is so dark not in a malicious way but complete curiosity you also have to put up with the jokes from the children that s trying to fit in thanks to my family my confidence was never shaken i was constantly reminded how beautiful my dark skin is looking back at it they were preparing me for the road ahead that confidence was at an all time high when girls started saying that my dark skin was one of the first things about me that they were attracted to life in the caribbean was good i ve always realised that i mattered in the us dark skin is not always as welcoming at least from my experience in the southern part of the country sad to say but even some african americans aren t as welcoming i was speechless when a woman that i was interested in a black woman told me that i would look better if i wasn t as dark the confidence took a hit for a second but that feeling was quickly replaced by disappointment i didn t think that it could get any worse than that but this is the experience that made me wonder if there s levels to blackness when another black person told me i should go back to africa that did it no way was i going to be speechless in reality this person and i could easily be related the only difference is that my ancestors were unloaded in the caribbean while his were probably unloaded in the state of south carolina i probably didn t say it in such a calm tone but that was the gist of my response so even though i always realised that i am black i m often reminded similar to when white people would lock their doors when i walked past their car in parking lots cross the road to avoid walking next to me or clutch their purses tighter if they couldn t aoid walking next to me little things like that they somehow think that we don t notice in the us i find myself making a mental checklist to not be a stereotype and still be the confident black man that i know i am one love david http liferow blog please visit david s blog for a perspective on being a black man on death row in 21st century america categories guest post writing tags autobiography death row life row politics bejwelled pavement published on may 2 2021 by chrisrenney 1 comment the riches below around and above us image by christine renney categories photography photography tags beauty glass pavement rainbow street unrealised unseen art and art published on april 21 2021 by chrisrenney 1 comment image by christine renney categories photography photography tags artwork colours daisies nature street vibrance cut flowers published on june 15 2019 by chrisrenney 2 comments image by christine renney aunt marie picked these pinks from her garden for me their perfume takes me back to my childhood glorious beauty categories photography tags beauty black and white flowers marie nature pinks scent wildlife marie s garden published on june 15 2019 june 15 2019 by chrisrenney 3 comments image by christine renney image categories photography tags beauty family flowers gardener love nature recording wildlife good friends published on june 15 2019 by chrisrenney leave a comment image by christine renney categories photography tags black and white close friends shopping street time posts navigation older posts create a free website or blog at wordpress com spartan eye create a free website or blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed spartan eye join 693 other subscribers sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy spartan eye subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar loading comments write a comment email required name required website