Queer and Colorist

You got friends and I know you got hell of friends too. So many people in your life and sometimes it's hard to keep up with everyone. But it never fails in America for colorism to come up in the most uncomfortable  ways. People in America have been systematically programmed to believe everything they see as a marketing scheme whether it be television or a magazine. America has created this colorist idealist martyr. Imagine having a darker skinned friend who is the sweetest person in the world, Yet the world views her as this aggressive and mean individual based off the color of her skin. Imagine having a lighter skinned friend and she still deals with the issues of the world, but always being told that you never truly experience the back experience. As a community of black Americans, we have to stop trying to compare those in our community to one another. Colorism is a one of the systems that were created to continue to divide us. As a community, if we are still participating in the act than we are the problem. We have always been the problem. Before, we could not take accountability due to the lack of resources. However, Today we have no excuses for the colorist actions that take place. We have all the resources to learn and grow away from using colorism as a socially acceptable phenomenon. The only way for us to actually stop everyone outside of black Americans to not use colorism is to attack it in our community head on. If we continue to blame the other race, nothing will happen. To be able to live freely externally, you have to be able to live free internally. To make sure you are healed on the outside, one must make sure they are healed on the inside first. As an community, we have to attack the trauma from the root of the tree. Once we dig up the dirt that had been planted for centuries, we can finally start to tackle more taboo and hurtful topics that were given to us by the colonizers or the majority race. They all want us to believe there is a difference due to skin tone, but there isn't. The only thing that separates us as humans is truly our thought process and how we think! This is not to say that race and skin does not play a role in how are people and government make decisions, but I will say that its becoming old and tired. People who believe in that system still are out dated. Its time to actually make true change for the future. To all my queer and black readers, how do you attack colorism? Have you asked yourself, "Am I a colorist?" Have you actually faced colorism and how did you positively counter act? 

xoxon