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I don't think this is 100% accurate. the weave thing is not shade specific. find me a light skin celebrity and i'll show you a weave (rhianna/beyonce). many of the women I see going natural are actually dark or brown skin.
i dont think that is the case.
i think they want what whites have not to be what whites are.
the burning question can you get what they have but not be what they are?
this is bs. the tanning industry is a multi billion dollar industry. white women routinely put themselves at risk to become darker. the ideal skin color is a light brown mocha type, not your average white persons color.
white females also spend billions on lip injections and butt implants.
"Some folks want to look black but very few actually want to be black" -------Simonism
It occurs to me that people who can't remember American culture earlier than the 80s might not realize that light skin among blacks in the first 80 years of the 20th century was almost always a result of light-skinned blacks having married other light skinned blacks--or such a combination being no further in their past than one generation...not the result of an interracial marriage.
How is relaxing the hair trying to be white? Many blacks relax their hair for style variety and for convenience.
There are pure Africans born with blonde hair. And so what if they get nose jobs? Other races are getting their lips enhanced, butt injections, and tan to get darker skin. Are they trying to be black?
And what does waist/hip reductions have to do with being white?
When the black pride movement gained prominence in the 60s, it was absolutely our reaction to the historical and constant pressure to look white, and we all knew that straightening the hair had always been acquiescence to that pressure. That's why wearing a 'Fro was considered a political statement of resistance, not a fashion statement. We hurled the challenge, "Am I black enough for you?" because we were tired of never being white enough for America.
In fact, adopting the word "black" itself to describe ourselves was a political statement, a deliberate raising of the fist, metaphorically speaking, in deliberate diametric opposition to being "white."
This entire movement was not in reaction to nothing--it was in reaction to the pressure to look white that we'd been subjected to for all of the 20th century.
I don't know about blacks wanting to be white, but I did notice something interesting lately. I have seen a lot of black women with white men. Before recently I would see some black men with white women, but the reverse was always very rare. I'm not sure if it is happenstance or an actual shift in culture.
I think it does represent a shift. And if you'll notice, those white men are more than likely with dark-skinned black women, not the light-skinned women one might initially expect.
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