Curtis Mayfield sang “high yella girl, can’t ya tell, your’re just the surface of our dark, deep well.”
I agree.
The way that they believe they are the entirey of the well. Draining from its depths without ever having lived at the bottom.
As the world has evolved we are still only engaging the surface and the pedastling of those who are light, as better, because it was a beauty standard laid down by the west, when they realized they couldn’t just be done with Black bodies all the way around.
Except everywhere we look folx spend their time fetishizing the darkest among us for clout. Steal all I can, discard the dark Black body, take the credit, so I can reach the heights.
From the obsession with painting and photographing overly Black artwork, Altering your body to look more like Black women’s naturally, from lip poppin to teeth suck nothing is safe.
A prime example of this is Seeking Mavis Beacon a sad and messy documentary about typing program that was used to create a typing savvy Black working force to further fund our nation.
The docu ultimately comes down to consent and how if you are dark skinned femme people are allowed to do anything and everything to you in the name of clout.
The filmmakers do the same thing to Mavis that the program developers did to her, using the clout and collateral of the Black body to fund a world rooted in anti Blackness, where only those closest in proximity to can thrive.
When did making art become an empty vapid thing? Pretty, shiny, hollow lil film.
It discouraging to see the exact generation that has brought me into alignment with what liberation and identity are, actually be undercut by Hollywood’s anti Blackness, confusion, chaos, and that biracial beast, that supersedes all, and sends madness out into the masses.
We even watch a young and thriving dark skinned archivist catch COVID, playing games with death, it order to deliver what?
The scenes of a biracial femme literally gaslight balling over a Black woman who told her no, it was disgusting.
It was deeply uncomfortable, and i’ve been in those situations. The attempts to weaponize your emotions with her son in the hopes of coercing a response. Dangerous.
It’s like she believed Mavis Beacon to be her mother in some weird way. This mammyfying of someone and then moving like you have rights to them just because you wanna make a movie.
It made me sick to my stomach and there were further questions that needed to be asked of these humans.
Like why is this biracial femme is so addicted to and obsessed with Black femmes and women? Could it be because of the cultural gap left in her by her yt mother and Black father?
It was honestly giving Kamala and all the Black cosplaying she did trying to win this election. All of the pandering with Taraji and Howard University and whoever else, when Blackness is always embodied it is never a performance.
And yet it seems that is all we can be, performers at the beckoned call of the world.
What gave the filmmaker the audacity and permission to think you could overwrite Black women’s consent and then make a documentary about it, and try to foolishly make it look like you didn’t do what you did?
The film is a lesson in anti Blackness.
Giving people yet another detailed play on how to do whatever it is you want when it comes to Black women and femmes.
Dare I say it’s your Black father who also sowed those seeds further.
This belief that you can do what you want, when you want with the bodies of Black women, we are still engaged like pieces of property, that’s what my Black father and Black men in the world taught me about my body, no matter who they chose as lovers and mothers.
Why is it so hard for ya’ll to be bi-racial and to claim it with your full chest?
We can’t speak to it and ya’ll just ignore the harm so you can claim belonging which isn’t yours to take and it’s not for Black folx to hold.
Your cultural in betweenness needs to be carried to the people who created it.
Because again if this filmmaker is the standard for Blackness, and her behavior is acceptable.
Where does that leave me and the rest of us who aren’t bi-racial and able to code switch between cultures for profit and clout, decimating those who actually formed the culture and the basis of knowing in the first place?
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