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- Kia says that there are girls at school bullying her because she has "nappy" hair. The girls are lighter skinned, and say that they are prettier than Kia. Kia wants to know how the struggle for black power relates to hair as well as color-ism. Jared gives Kia examples, and explains to her that racism goes far beyond , and it's embedded in every system we know today.
- Color-ism stems from white people accepting "white passing" black people over darker skinned black people. The closer you looked to white person guaranteed greater resources as well as opportunity over a darker skinned counterpart. Color-ism is the discrimination against darker people from others in the same racial group.
- Often times, color-ism would provoke black people to assimilate so they would be accepted in white spaces. Black people to do this successfully were often ostracized from black spaces, and generational trauma of anti-black behavior pursued. As mentioned in lecture, this isolation of black individuals caused issues within the black community that we still see today.
- Black people were excluded from public spaces shared with white people. Black children were excluded from public pools, as they were thought of to be dirty. This is to blame from stereotype and it actually created a new stereotype that black people cant swim. There was no more room for discrimination, so there needed to be change.
- Even in media, Black people were denied chances as well as resources. To "fit the look" black women had to appear lighter, and possess euro-centric beauty features. For a long time, there was an extreme pressure to act in such a way that you were accepted in white spaces. This had to happen in order for survival.
- I don't get it Jared. Why do those girls bully me if all that stuff happened so long ago?Kia, generation trauma doesn't go away. It manifests itself into different outlets as the times change. Your hair isn't nappy or ugly,
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