From: clg1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Christopher L Gray)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Re: Maury Povich Show: She Wants To Be White
Keywords: Integration Tricked the Knee-grow(negro)
Date: 12 Apr 92 22:20:16 GMT
Organization: The Deephouse Project

From: staggers@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Ken Staggers):

>Did anyone see the segment this week on the Maury Povich show where a 20 year
>old african american female said, many times, she wishes she was white?
>

Yeah, I caught this show a few months ago..

>Kim is dark skinned, yet she said she would have surgery to bleach her skin
>and change her nose.  She said she has straightened out her hair and currently
>wears green contacts.  Maury asked a blond caucasian audience member to stand
>up and asked Kim if she wanted to look like her.  She said yes.

More specifically besides the societal problem, Kim was a victim of attempted
integrecide.  I define it as the want to be like white people, live like and with
white people, and to ultimately to become white people(it'll never happen tho).

This girl probably looked decent before she added that crap...the contacts and
all that (don't get me started on how pale Michael Jackson's underbody and chest
area is...).  She was so unstable about her wants...I think she only wanted to
be accepted..Fuck that chameleon routine.  There are probably plenty of Blak guys
who would talk to her, but her mindset, or the lack thereof, probably ran them away.

>On the show, Kim did put down blacks in general.  She made a lot of
>stereotypical comments.  She has only one black friend and Kim says its 
>because her only black friend doesnt talk or act black.  Her friend has
>tried to convince her that she is beautiful, but she doesnt want to listen.

I think that girl has a problem in the since that she obviously doesn't know
or care about the remarkable things that Blak people have/are made to
society, and thinks that the white skin is ultimate.  But she isn't to blame
fully.  This poisonous society has tainted many minds beyond the original
efforts of genocide.

I bet you she loves and believes *everything* that white people say on
television, and the movies.  

>Kim does have a daughter.  Kim said she didnt plan it this way, but the
>father is white.

Like hell.  She had him pecked from the beginning.  I just don't believe that
she stumbled upon a guy "who just happened to be white".  Her sub-conscious
directed toward his qualities, or lack thereof...  

>She is very proud that the daughter looks white (imho,
>you will always be able to tell that kid has black features) and that
>she will not face racism when she grows up.

Bullshit.  That child will go through hell.  Because we don't know who we
are, and the fact that she is mixed with more white blood than the norm,
the question as to *who* she is and *what* she stands for, along with the
confusion that her mother will bestow upon her is enough for that child to
have suicidal tendecies.

>Personally, it was one of the saddest things I have ever heard.  This lady
>has no self esteem.

and no idea how sweet Blakness really is #:)

>Her parents did not try hard enough to explain what
>all the racist comments Kim heard as a child meant.  She took them too
>personally. 

I don't know what her parents did, but its a thing that KIM must face, and
she didn't appear to be comfortable with it, when it was discussed nationwide.
I think she needs a historical and spritual session with herself.  
There is nothing wrong with being Blak.  Hell, everyone else is doing what
they can to become BLAKKER.

>Having never heard this before, I have to wonder how widespread is this? 
>Besides Michael Jackson and Kim, are there a lot of African American kids
>who want to actually change their appearannce to look like a different
>color?  

To me, the 1980's was the worst time for Blak people..and this is during
my lifetime.  Gheri-curls to have hair looking and feelng closer to whites,
dressing like, listening and dancing to white music...and ultimately attempting
to think and be like whites.  I am a victim of that particular struggle, but
I am in some serious rehab. ##:)  

But some people kept going WEST.  I am looking to the east for my 
guidance.  

I think that since the Afrocentric movement has rejuvenated within the masses
of Blak people, the skin color thing is taking a back seat.  If anything,
I think a lot of ligher-skinned Blaks are catching heat for not being
dark enough. ##;)

But there are still some confused Knee-grows who want to stray.

Enough from me...

As Salaam Alaikum




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