ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL

I'm so excited about this post because it's by one of my favorite friends. For the past 2 weeks, I have reached out (and am still reaching out) to people I find inspirational and people I feel have a story. (A lot of these people just happen to be my very close friends) She was so happy to do this and she sent it in very quickly so I really can't wait for you guys to read this and every other post in this series. With that said, here's "All men are created equal" by Angel Love Bentil

“All men are created equal”, “We are made in the image of God” and “We shed the same blood” yet these ideals seem to live in utopia and well we live on earth. On earth, our reality is systematic division, black and white, binary, and non-binary, male and female. The race to end these systems has run for 400 hundred years and more with no finish line in sight.

In high school, My sister being a dark-skinned girl, was made fun of by her peers, plot twist who was also black—calling her baa baa black sheep wittingly due to her name being Baaba. In a world where two of the very same people with the very same skin discriminate, isolate, and encourage oppression are the very ones oppressed. In what world would a white man also not believe he may be able to do the same with your dark skin which you called better because it was lighter to my sisters.

Colorism has been an issue for centuries, yet we see it more often now than before. Why? Because it is apparent now than ever that black is beautiful. More simplified black features are beautiful. When historically genetic traits of us are being taken away and injected in those without melanin such as; pouty lips, a big ole backside, braids, even our dark skin, it shows the blueprint is not the issue but the spectator.

Kim Kardashian would be nothing without her bought features from black women; Kylie Jenner would be nothing without her famous injected pout. All we see in the media today is you can be black but too black. Enslaving the minds of the Black community.

When a social media platform as big as TikTok was able to create a sub genre by black men of why light skin women were better than dark skin melanated queens, I knew then an issue that was far from over and should be discussed.

If we dark skins are not good enough then take off our uniform and be plain Jane. But, you can't. Why? Because black is beautiful. We know what beauty is because we can compare to what can be seen to be called ugly. For the white man to justify themselves as being beautiful, they made us think and feel ugly. Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. Thus, they made the beholder white and made everyone believe the beholder too.

However, we are wiser, stronger smarter and would certainly like to think not in the shackles of slavery. Mental slavery. Make your beholder yourselves again. See the truth. There are universal truths that cannot be disputed. My baa baa sheep is beautiful and green-eyed jealousy is not very admirable or a great lens. I choose to look through my black-eyed love and it's beautiful.