Have been reading comments on this thread and realising we all have stories to tell about how our skin colours and racial mixtures will always get some sort of reaction from the worse to the ignorant followed by the true haters
I am not here for that, was born and bred in the UK nigh on 70 years ago.and have always thought even as a little girl that if I wasn't liked or accepted by the ignorant out there that was their problem
Schools were pot luck depending on teachers wilful ignorance or acceptance
And work places could be difficult
Needing a wage meant sometimes biting your tongue
But they somehow knew what you truly thought of them though nothing was said and distances kept
I think what I'm trying to say is that there's everything jumbled mixed together out there in the world and we as black people or whatever shade of brown we may be have the shared experience of subtle racism, and being never quite as good so having to try harder. We need to have pride cohesion and love ourselves; sod the poison what racist idiots dangerously spread.
I never took much notice of others opinions just got on with my own and did how I was done by
We may never truly win the battle of the assumed perceptions of being black whilst just wanting to be honestly accepted but have to realise the abuse and suffering that we have survived ever since the early days of slavery has permeated how things are for us all now
Like I said,
We are born surviors so will live on to exceed to better days and work out whatever comes our way via how we appear to others
Says this grey loc haired lady
Remember,
Sharks are born swimming