Going Out To Ms. Genevieve...Thank You...Go check out this Short Film on her Blog

I just watched A Girl Like Me by Kiri Davis and man that hits home all over again about how black women are perceived...seeing that how my black sisters go through day in and day out I hate thinking about what I go through as a male day in and day out. The older I have become I realize how things have stayed the same.

Sometimes I have to take a step back here in the office when dealing with my sistas here in the office because of so much crap they have to put up with. Some of them brings crap upon themselves in the workplace but the majority of black women constantly have to prove themselves day in and day out here and it gets frustrating. What really is sad in America still and especially in corporate America, skin complexion still place a big part. I noticed how some light complexion sisters get treated better with just simple things as having the door held open for them, how white men gravitate to light complexion women and just in society as a whole how my sisters are thought of on a regular basis.

Seeing that short film takes me back to when I was in grade school and how most of us young boys would gravitate to the light complexion girls. Looking back now how idiotic of me for this because coming up and my complexion I didn't have a snowball chance in hell dating a "redbone" because I was "too dark"

Watching the movie and seeing how the children(15 out of 20) picked the white doll is not surprising even in the 21st century. Have you paid attention to the commercials? How is it that in most of the commercials you have two dark parents and the child looks of a mixed race? In most television shows still most thin black women are light complexion and the most brown or dark sistas are on the heavy side. We may have made some strides but it's still evident that  the workforce, Hollywood and even in my own culture we still go by the "Brown Bag" theory.

What's really sad is that she will get notice, maybe by Oprah, there will be a little buzz about it and then, as always...it will just fade away.

Thank you Ms. G for bringing this to my attention.