“If she’s 13, then I’m 13 too” I always see this on Twitter
and Instagram of some guy who posts a picture of some girl that’s 13 but she
looks like she’s 20. It is crazy that in this society girls who are 13 have on
“skimpy” clothing and “booty shorts”. Like c’mon society let these children be
children! I remember when I was in the 12th grade and I was working
at JcPenny in the children’s department. My guy cousin grabbed these tiny
little girl shorts and a two-piece bathing suit and he said “see this is why we
have pedophiles because people dress their little girls like grown women”. Now
this statement was pretty extreme, but he had a point. Why do people dress
their little girls in clothing that makes them look so much older? Let these
little girl play with dolls until they get tired and want to stop. Don’t force
this grown up clothing on them. You dress you children and even if you don’t I
doubt if these little girls who are 7 or 8 only want to wear “booty shorts” and
“skimpy” clothing. I can’t speak for everyone but I truly do appreciate my mom
and the way she dressed me. The way you dress your daughter can affect the way
that she grows up to be. Not saying that clothing can dictate the way a child
grows but clothing can make them seem more mature than what they truly are.
Just a few days ago my mom and I seen a little girl about four years old and
she had on these tiny shorts and a little t-shirt. It looked as though she was
walking around in Target with just her underwear on. All we could so was shake
our heads in the disbelief. It is not just with females though it is also with
males and how their mothers are dressing them like teenage boys rather than
little boys. Kids now a day doesn’t have flowers on their shirts or trucks on
their shorts. Maybe I am taking this whole clothing thing out of content, but
our parent’s generation dressed their children like children rather than mini
adults.
Every since slavery there has been a comparison between dark
skin blacks and light skin blacks. Even though slavery ended over a century
ago, society cannot get over the idea of dark skin vs. light skin. Even as my
mom was growing up she would always hear “you are pretty for a dark skin girl”.
Like who wants to hear that all the time. I bet you are wondering what does
that have to do with society today. Well in todays culture this is a huge
problem going on in the black community. It is worse with men than it is with
women. When it comes to light skin and dark skin women it usually have to do
with looks and beauty and that is about it. Well when it comes to black males
it is about looks, but also about how light skin males are considered to be
“soft” and “feminine”. The dark skin males are thought out to be tougher and
stronger. The list could go on and on about how these two “groups” of black
people could be so different, but when filling out papers we all check the box
that says “Black American”. The whole ideology of dark skin vs. light skin was
a way for slave owners to diminish the black culture and keep them separated
and weak in the mind and spirit. All this does it make the self hatred and discrimination and racism grow in the black community. Why we are still doing this in 2015 baffles
me. Why are lighter skin women considered prettier than darker skin women in
the 21st century? It is because the media and society still have us
thinking that being fully black or dark skin is not attractive. I couldn’t tell
you how times a day do I hear someone say that light skin girls are so pretty
and nothing looks better than them. Now don’t get me wrong my significant other
is light skin but that is not why we are dating. Skin color had nothing to do
with it at all, the personality was simply amazing. Which is surprising because they
say light skin girls don’t answer text messages or phone calls. We need more of what the bottom picture is saying rather than hating those who are different from us. When we are dividing ourselves up as a race and because of that we are now inferior to the other races. WE have too get out of this slave mindset because it is destroying us. At the end of
the day no matter what complexion your skin is, we would all be slaves, the only difference is if you were a house or field one.
