I'm About to Go In on Whoopi Goldberg Again
Yesterday I went in on Whoopi Goldberg in a post where I refused to be politically correct while providing a much milder version of what people hear and say every single day. My post was published on a black gossip blog, I'll provide the link at the bottom of this post, and I really enjoyed reading the comments, which tended to criticize me whereas POTP readers had positive feedback.
I felt my "rant" was long enough, so I didn't go in-depth with my explanations. To the readers on a black gossip site, they know absolutely nothing about what I post nearly everyday here on POTP. For example, in one of my first posts today I mentioned that 'Brad Pitt is a sexy beast.'
My rant touched upon multiple topics that extend beyond Whoopi Goldberg's disturbing defense of Mel Racist Misogynist Abusive A-hole. I mentioned that I have noticed that darker-skinned black people seem to suffer from a color complex. In one of my comments on the black gossip site, I mentioned that light-skinned black people seem to be among the most Afrocentric leaders in history: Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson, Cornel West and Angela Davis - just to name a few.
I say this as an African-American who has been told that she is "so white" and "such a white girl" for as long as I can remember. When Michelle Obama said that people used to always tell her, "You talk like a white girl" conservative white people got pissed! Some of us won't STFU about certain issues, sorry.
I feel that some mixed and/or light skinned African-Americans have been put in a position where they feel they must prove their "blackness," or have felt compelled to do so, just like my black card is put in question on a regular basis and I, too, have to prove that I know of my history and am proud of who I am.
I believe that darker-skinned individuals are more likely to have subconscious color complexes that emerge in various ways - and that is how I connected Whoopi to darker-skinned individuals. Additionally, I mentioned that some darker African-American males may have a penchant for gravitating towards people of other races and lighter hues. For example, straight haired people want curly hair and vice versa - we sometimes want what we are not, it doesn't necessarily mean that each individual who dates interracially is self-hating and prejudiced, either. I just mentioned the reality of the obvious.
So... without further ado, I will update you on the bullsh*t sprinkles that Whoopi Goldberg spewed on The View today. Naturally, I have to dedicate an entire post to her nonsense cause this one would be too long.
READERS SOUND OFF ON FIRECRACKER'S WHOOPI GOLDBERG RANT - You should give Miss Jia some traffic love (and be sure to check out the comments left on my post in the blue link directly above above when you're bored at work or whatever, some of 'em made me LOL).
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July 18th, 2010 11:32 AM
Your animosity towards darker-complexed black people is quite disturbing. You seem to make a blanket statement as if all with such complexion does have color complexes. I've found blacks of all complexions with complexes over lighter and darker hues. Author you might want to check yourself because most aren't like that and it seems you are exerting your issues with darker complexed blacks via this Whoopi Goldberg mess. You might want to deal with those issues you had to "prove yourself", something I had to do as well as an adolescent as well and I'm of a darker complexion, but stop caring as a teen and adult because I don't give a flying fuck about the opinions of others except for my love ones...
Goldberg is one woman and not representative of all of her hue no more than Terrance Howard, whom seems to married non-black women, isn't representative off all with a lighter hue...
July 17th, 2010 11:54 PM
I say keep doing you! I stopped reading comments on black sites long ago as they're negative with FEW exception. Its almost, in some instances as if (theblogs) they're an outlet for darker skinned people to ventabout a "light skinned" experience they're approxamating. I'm not proving shit, I am who I am and I don't give a fuck anymore about my damn black card, I'd rather have a fit body, burrounded by good energy, good credit and intellect.
July 14th, 2010 11:53 PM
@ Lola, I knew the shit storm was coming and I'm glad I got some people thinking and talking. No one on Miss Jia said anything that I haven't heard before.
I'm also really glad that I was so 'off topic,' cause the things I have to say about 'off topic' issues are extremely prevalent and important. I wasn't going to pass up on the opportunity to speak my mind. And I did so at the best time, too, cause POTP's traffic has been double this week. More people are reading my 2 cents this week than the dozens of thousands of phantoms/ day typically do. :)
July 14th, 2010 11:48 PM
Thanks for the love, Firecracker! I really appreciate it and I did look on the site that you linked. It's a shame that some people were so hard on you. I agree that some people don't like to hear the blatant truth about these type of things. Discussions about race are always going to ruffle some feathers, but I think it is good and healthy to talk about these things and I'm glad you are addressing it on your blog.
July 14th, 2010 9:12 PM
"some darker African-American males may have a penchant for gravitating towards people of other races and lighter hues"
Maybe it's just an asthetic thing, yin/yang. There is just something inherently striking and beautiful about the contrast between a very dark-skinned person with a very pale-skinned one, like Heidi Klum and Seal.
"we sometimes want what we are not"
That is definitely true. I am short and pale with black hair and brown eyes, and I have noticed that I am drawn to guys who are tall, tanned, with blond hair and blue or green eyes (surfer/skater types, basically).
July 14th, 2010 4:58 PM
yawn.
really, who gives a rip?
make the most out of your life and drop the poor poor pitiful me rap and get on with it.
fix what ya can and don't sweat the small stuff.
drive on, life is about challenges and how they are over come.
goldberg and her ilk are not ever worth listening to; remember that their whole life has been in the land of make believe, so why would any sane person listen to them?
July 14th, 2010 10:25 AM
@ S-Dawg, We know a thing or two about an online debaterade, don't we? I enjoy going to your site and going in on your commenters who nitpick at everything. It's amazing how some readers want bloggers to speak their mind, then they get offended if there's an extra space between the last letter of a word and the period of a sentence, I swear to gawd!
July 14th, 2010 9:50 AM
Whoa - way to set off the debaterade and hold your ground over on MissJia.
July 14th, 2010 9:35 AM
Martin Luther King, and Jesse Jackson are NOT light-skinned blacks.
July 14th, 2010 12:59 AM
Did you click on the link and read the comments on MissJia? I say the truth, it's upsetting to some hypersensitive people who don't want to hear it, and they get pissed.
I mentioned celebrities because we all know famous black men, but this goes on with men who aren't famous, obviously. There's a lack of diversity in Hollywood and I commend Tyra Banks for working on her production company so she can make movies that features beautiful women in all shades, and more than likely, sizes.
That's America for you, though. I remember an ex-boyfriend of mine telling me about how his mixed female friend went to Paris and she was pissed cause the white dudes kept turning her down, telling her "You're not dark enough."
This light-skinned shit does not go down abroad, in fact, it's quite the opposite.
I refuse to sit and bitch about it and I also refuse to act as though certain issues, no matter what they may be, do not exist cause that's counterproductive.
You know I gots love for Lola. So much love that I'm commenting when I should be headed out the door right now. :)