Time to have another important conversation at the expense of yall comfort:
Stop saying "Black Women" when you v specifically & exclusively mean women who are half black & ethnically ambiguous looking — bc a lot of ppl (entirely too many) love to equate this w being pro black, woke, feminist, inclusive or extensively ab fully Black women when it's not & hardly ever is. It's colorist, ironically misogynoir, & again, entirely too many casually stand for it to deflect around being real ab how they perceive/associate Blackness lest it's genetically watered down in women.
This op isnt to ostracize, isolate or attack biracially half black women, but it is frustrating & a little mind boggling how ppl just flat out associate or identify just anybody w Blackness now, esp feminine Blackness, w increasing normalcy — & still consciously exclude & forget ab monoracially Black Women in the same breath or on the same subject matter. It can be especially offensive regarding how black women are the trendsetters & prototypes in so many feminine spaces & aesthetic circles that non black & half black women alike copy, yet they're never ever considered or sourced properly. Even worse, no race of women in the world suffer the kind of oppression fully Black Women deal w just existing. Light skinned nor biracial women deal w anything like that in any regular capacity — so why do yall insist on making them out to be entirely representative of Black Women?
If you can't credit, support or acknowledge Black Women in their natural, dark & brown skinned, purest ethnic & cultural forms when you bring them up, then you are not talking ab Black Women. You are talking ab Biracial Women. And that's fine. The two groups are not the same tho; esp considering there's often a antiblack/colorist/texturist/featurist template to what alotta yall feel Black Women have to look like for you to speak positively or inclusively ab them at all fr, ijs.
When yall speak specifically ab light skinned and/or mixed women, yall are absolute ab the type of women you mean based on phenotypes often in contingency w biracially, & dsbw are totally omitted — yet when yall say "Black Women", suddenly definition is extensive & a pedestal for women who are half Black to represent Black Girls period. At the same time, when yall dog & defeminize/dehumanize Black Women, yall don't ever mean the same white-passing or ambiguous looking biracial women yall comfortably simplify as "Black" — which is mighty interesting bc, just as well, Biracial Women don't even take offense to or speak out against misogynoir geared specifically toward fully Black Women, either, in spite of "being (perceived as)" or identifying as Black.
Colorist & antiblack. Yall really gotta work on this w/o getting so defensive ab it & making it out to be racist, too. Like it or not, this is gatekeeping, & its v necessary since literally everyone claims being black now like the culture's a costume, or takes full credit for black aesthetics to be edgy or whatever. Being half Black & fully Black are not the same things. These are false, trendy equivalences & a lot of yall can't be real ab how consciously yall participate in the erasure of Black Women being able to represent themselves. Like let's be frfr ab this, cus it's still antiblack & racist as hell. Yall don't even do the same thing regarding dark skinned black men & light skinned men. Stop doing this to Black Women.
