Tights

Tights are thick leg coverings, like stockings or panty hose but thicker. Many of the people who wear tights are dancers or women.  I usually wear them underneath a dress or a pair of pants. Little girls are cute when they wear them with a cute outfit. Some women think it’s fashionable to wear tights with a plain shirt on, as if tights are pants.

  Tights are not pants, they were not made to be worn as pants. What makes this fashion decision worse is the fact that these tacky women wear these tights with white unders on and many have misshapen, cellulite ridden butts and thighs. Not cute. Even not cuter, is when some of these women think that stockings are tights and wear them like pants exposing even more than they should have. Walking around just traumatizing everyone, embarrassing. Be a lady and wear your clothes the way they were intended.

Beyonce…Yeah, I Know

Beyoncé Knowles is a well-known singer/actress. She made her first debut as the lead singer of Destiny’s Child. She’s originally from Houston Texas, my home state. Most people know her from such songs as Say My Name, Irreplaceable/To the Left, Ego, Halo so on and so frikkin’ forth. She has also starred in a number of movies. Beyoncé is married to Jay Z and has recently announced that she is pregnant, via exaggerated baby bump. Exaggerated meaning, not fully hers but it’s there, like that exaggerated wig on her head. My opinion, overall of Beyoncé is that I like her. I’m not like, fall out of my chair and faint like 80′s MJ concert. She can sing, she can dance and she really reminds me of a modern day Tina Turner. She ain’t awl ah det (Bon qui qui) but she aight. My mother and I would always frown at the fact that she pops her cooch in the camera, always. It’s like she deliberately opens her legs in front of the camera and its like ‘YAH!’. We have literally tried to count how many times she does it and well, it’s a lot. Oh and ladies, just because Beyoncé wears drawers like they are shorts, doesn’t mean that it’s okay for you to do it. Anyway, an entertainer is an entertainer and she keeps us entertained!

Black Parents, White Baby

 

I was browsing some sites today, passing time, and I came across this article on Media Take Out. I know, this site is not the most reliable source for the truth but it passes the time. Anyway after reading the article, I decided to research and see if in fact this was a true article, and it is. The in-depth article is on this site: http://www.huliq.com/8738/black-couple-gives-birth-white-baby . It states that both parents are from Nigeria, and have no evidence of mixed race in their ancestry. It also says that the baby was tested and is biologically both parents and she is not an albino. She is a white baby. My question is, since all of this has come to light, is this proof that all the people on this earth is black? I mean, I do believe in Adam and Eve, but most white people think they were white. Can we take this bit of news and run with it?  Can we say that the first white man was birthed by a black woman? If it is so, then we have been hated by our own all these years! Wow! I know it’s not going to change anything but there is hope.

Akhenaten in relation to my life

Akhenaten was an Egyptian Pharoah living around 1500 BCE. I’m sure I have heard of him when I was younger, but I was recently watching a series on the National Geographic channel about him being an alien. That isn’t what caught my attention though. What caught my attention was the way he was perceived by his artists. His head was long and his hips were wide. He also had long fingers and toes. I looked at his photos and sculptures and found him to be very attractive and began to see similarities in him and my husband. My husband’s head is long and he has long fingers and toes what I don’t understand is how could historians believe that these beautiful black people were aliens. Many believe this because he governed his people according to one God and not the many of his father’s beliefs. Why can’t people just deal with the fact that many black Africans were highly intelligent beings and get over it. Don’t bring alien beings into the picture. Although if it were such a thing as alien DNA, I think my husband has some of it because he looks like an Egyptian statue.

White People

Yesterday I had the unavoidable task of taking my beautiful cousins to gymnastics. My cousins are 6 and 8 and they are pretty little black girls, anyways they were the only black girls in that class. We get to class a little  early, say maybe 15 minutes, we walked in and sat on the bleachers. A white lady walks out of the office and says to the other employee’s, ‘Yall need to watch the door, you don’t know who could be coming in here’ directing her gaze at us. So I’m sitting there with members of this ‘class’ that pays 170.00 per month and you mean to tell me you don’t know what kind of people we are. White people were coming back and forth but you could only say something when the black people are there. Anyway, they completed their class and I leave before they are done because honestly I felt very uncomfortable and unwelcome, and for my aunt to be paying that much money no one should ever feel that way for any reason. My point being, considering the things that I have been reading these past couple of months about white  people and how they perceive blacks, and considering the history I have had with them, I really don’t think I can deal with them anymore. I don’t care if they are the nicest person on earth, something under my skin is telling me don’t trust them, don’t deal with them. It makes my stomach hurt sometimes.

Issues with Color

I go to church nearly every sunday and another member said ‘hello white girl’ to me. Confused I said back, ‘white girl?’ and she said yeah because you are so light-skinned you look white. Then she said ‘that’s a good thing ’cause back in slavery times you would have been working in the house and not in the fields with me.’ I take pride in my blackness. My mother is a reddish-brown color and my father is a little more olive colored than me, but he’s the blackest person I know personality wise. So as I am sitting in church I was pondering over what this lady said to me and asked myself, what is black really? Is it a color? an attitude? a way of life? To tell you the truth I am still kind of confused, and if we were still in slavery times do you honestly think I would be happy to work in massa’s house? Why do black people think that’s a good thing? Us light-skinned people have a hard life too you know. When I was in middle school I learned that the hard way. I went to a predominately white middle school on the white side of town after graduating from a predominately middle class black elementary school. Needless to say I made no friends because white kids knew that I wasn’t white and the black kids hated my color. After a year of being picked on and beat up, mostly by the black kids, my mom moved me back to where I was. Why can’t black people be acceptive toward one another. We are all in this race together and when will we learn that it’s not all about the shade of your blackness.

Hello world!

I’m just going to leave it at that, Hello World! My name is Shannon. I am, as of now 25 years old. It’s going to take me a little while but I know that I will figure this blog thing out. Well I am going to be talking about everyday issues that plague my mind. I’m a little ‘out-there’ with some of the ways I perceive stuff so don’t criticize me too bad. Well I am married and have two children that love to work my nerves and for right now I am looking for but still haven’t found work. Anyway I love to read, write and sing although I am not aspiring to be an editor, novelist or singer. I guess that’s it for today, well right now.

UPDATE: I am now on baby number three, my marriage is still going strong. I no longer want to edit anything because I write quickly and make a ton of mistakes that I barely notice. I am currently working and still enjoying life.