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Yes, I do feel like it's not often talked about, but I definitely feel like it's present
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I have yet to see a completely brown skin family on the sitcom
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I don't think so, honestly. It's an issue. It's definitely an issue
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There are people who still think that the lighter you are, the better or whatever, but I think that I see a lot more people
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embracing, you know, darker skin tone. I noticed one guy that was like
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if you like skin, you automatically a seven. You know, like, people say dumb stuff like that
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You know, we need to start shaming colorist people. Like, one day I just woke up and I was like, I'm over colorism
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Like, I'm just tired of talking about it. You know, and like, I decided to let that go
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I think it's really bad in the working world. I think it's definitely not accepted
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I think you're looked at as like your hair looks crazy or it unkempt as they like to say I think black people have embraced women wearing different hair styles I don know about society One summer I decided to cut my hair off because I see so many women who have long hair
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For example, I went to a job interview years ago, and the first thing that came to my mind was
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oh, let me straighten my hair. But then I asked myself, like, straighten your hair for what
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I think we are on the high right now. It is more acceptable for our culture, I can say
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society is warming up to it because they know that we're not backing down now that we're embracing our curl
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they kind of can't stop us. Every since I've cut my hair and been wearing natural, I feel like a lot of men are gravitating
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toward me and telling me like you know I this is the look for me
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I see a lot of brothers like really embracing it and stuff and it's a beautiful thing. My son would be like, mom
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You need to wear your hair curly. Like when I straightened and stuff, I'm like, I like, I like your hair better
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when it's woofoo. And I am not trying to shame it up on me because I wear it all, leaves, whatever
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But it's better like, just having your own hair out. It's just being like yourself
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And I think that a lot of men like that. I think it's a double-ed sword, to be honest
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I think there has been, there's a lot of really uplifting, you know, websites and
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people to follow. There's a lot of people that are positive. I think there's also stuff out there that's like really ratchet
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It uplifts us for sure because we see once again like other black women doing good or looking beautiful and nowadays everyone like yes melanin Like you take a picture Forget what you doing We like oh melanin her melanin pop
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You know, like, that's, it's lit. We live. I think that a lot of conversations happen on social media
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Even, like, on black Twitter, like a hashtag will pop up. And it'll be funny, but I think it's really starting a dialogue that we didn't have before
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That we had amongst ourselves as black women. but it's making it public
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And we can kind of see each other's issues, even if it's through comedy or whatever
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Black women did these things for art sucks. Like, Black girls rock was started by a black woman
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Now, I'm not saying that y'all black men don't rob. Black men don't have magic
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I call it bunch of for y'all. But what I'm saying is, y'all don't know if y'all's up
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Like, why we're gonna sit up and we lift ourselves up too? I feel like as black women, we do it for the culture every day
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Like, we, when we are lifting ourselves up, we're also lifting our community up, we're lifting our men up, we're lifting our children up
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Like, that just kind of goes along with the territory. I mean, that's just the way I see it
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Stop hating on us. We pop, then. You need to accept it, okay
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Right, like, let's do it together. Right, you got to, you got to be like, yes, queen
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And she got to be like, yes, we're saying. Boom, power cup. I think we as a people in general are embracing ourselves a lot more to push ourselves to to push society to progress Society is really was moving forward so much so that
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people got scared. The people who wanted to stay the same and who benefit from
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the world being you know not a great place. There's like this growing number of people that
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really want to see that message move forward, the message of empowerment
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We are a lot more multifaceted now. We're way more free and uninhibited
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Women are really like about taking their power back right now. We are owning our power now
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You know, we're stepping into it and we're creating lanes for ourselves
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You know, we're, you know, black women are like the fastest growing entrepreneurs as, you know
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as of this year. And I think that's just amazing. It's reflected in the music and, you know, we have people like Ava and Issa and Shonda
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you know, Amara Kiel holding it down in the media and we have people like, you know
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Beyonce and Rihanna holding it down in the music arenas and beyond and being very black while doing it
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People like Solange, Cardi B, you know, different types of black women
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but they're all radical in this series. We're not only in the kitchen and cooking anymore
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We can do way more than that, and these men out here, they know that
