yesterday's enthusiast

alwaysbewoke:

sotouchy:

dementorkissmycooch:

These parents are “cruel” but my mother was following the norm. These girls cry because of their Black dolls and I was supposed to beg for White baby dolls at their age.

1. My Blackness is not a joke or a tool for shame or humiliation.
2. These parents are garbage for using Blackness as something to laugh at

This is super fucking frustrating for me to see.

Here’s the link to the video.

this is how racism is passed down through generations 

i heard about this video on twitter and refused to watch it because the stress from the hurt and anger i felt just from the description alone made it clear that i needed to just leave this alone. which speaks to black life right? the emotional, mental and physical toll living in a white supremacist society that uses our visage as a means to convey shame, humiliation, ridicule, barbarism and more fucks with you. it just does. that’s some shit that white people will never understand. 

and to read the tweets of white people making excuses for this shit. “it’s not racist for a child to want a dolls that looks like her.” yea the child may not be racist but the action of the parents obviously were. also while the child is blameless here, let’s not forget that for ages it was common for black parents to give their children WHITE dolls. common and expected. this shit goes back centuries too and with a purpose.

“A controversial homemade doll that’s often found in the South is the “topsy-turvy doll,” which had, instead of legs, another head that could be hidden under the doll’s skirt. One head and set of arms would be white; the others would be black. Early doll manufacturers Albert Bruckner and E.I. Horsman later produced a topsy-turvy doll as a novelty toy, Garrett says.

The topsy-turvies existed, Britt says, because the slave masters actually didn’t want the slave children to have dolls that looked like themselves, which would give them a sense of empowerment. “When the slave master was gone, the kids would have the black side, but when the slave master was around, they would have the white side,” she says.” Read the rest of the article here.

let me post that again

The topsy-turvies existed, Britt says, because the slave masters actually didn’t want the slave children to have dolls that looked like themselves, which would give them a sense of empowerment. “When the slave master was gone, the kids would have the black side, but when the slave master was around, they would have the white side,” she says.” Read the rest of the article here.

so what this white child saw as punishment, a ugly unwanted gift was an act used for centuries to colonize the mind of african american girls. the result of which were low self esteem, low sense of self worth, self hatred, abnormally high association with whiteness, inferiority complex and more. she, this blameless child, will never know, due to her obviously shitty parents, that she lives a privilege life where she can expect a doll that looks like her and reject anything otherwise. she is born into that privilege. a totally unearned privilege. something black girls for centuries did not have and many many many still do not have because their mother’s mind was colonized and brainwashed and they are passing down that evil to their little ones now.

yes indeed this is how racism is passed from generation to generation. this is racism. this is whiteness. this is white people.