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Originally Posted by trinigirl
KMT Yes my sis, Just reading the dialogue in the thread about the Brazilian sisters tripped me, hence the reason for me really needing to VENT this. One thing I have found from interacting with my family from many many different places is that we are really the same.. with different accents but by and large our levels of morality, spirituality, and family are similar. So why must there continue to be the attitude that "these women are trying to get our men & money..." or "they're coming here..." The thing is we all arrived somewhere.
There are beautiful brothers and sisters where i am from that will make great companions and friends etc.etc.
peace
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Yeah I feel you. I take part of the blame in the argument about Brazilian women because honestly it wasn't about Brazilian women per say, but more of me not being aware that a lot of Brazilian women are black. I honestly was not aware, but was educated on the issue, you feel me? See how the conditions of Hollywood has brainwashed us?
Which shows all of us need some growth. I always invisioned Brazilian women being more on the look of let's say Michael Michelle, so when I read it, I was like ok so what lighter skinned women are more beautiful than darker women, then of course my own insecurities on other things didn't help.
This is why us having forums and discussing varioues issues opens the topics and opens our eyes on our own slave minded mentality. All of us are slave minded some more than others, so educating each other by allowing each other to teach or give points of view is very important.
I think the black community should start forming nation wide and state wide healing seminars in every city and state to re-connect everyone, where Africans, West Indians, Latinos and Black Americans can sit and have an open discussion to spill out all of our questions about one another, to clear the air between the cultures and the people, and allow each other speak each others mind, then teaching each other why these conditions and discriminations started to begin with, which was the brainwashing over time by colonializm aka yt
Sort of like if you are in AA, and you are a parent who did drugs around your children and it hurt your children so much that while in rehab you have to have family counseling sessions where the children are allowed to say what they need to say. If we don't say it, vent it, it can't be fixed.
Sit down and ask your African brother why they have anger towards us, and vice versa. Ask our latinos what hurts them or makes them angry with not only Black Americans and Africans, but also the in house racism within their own culture i.e. Mexicans vs. Puerto Ricans
We will find that by having these open seminars that "divide and conquer" line will deplete itself.
I honestly believe that, then we will stop using words like:
Minority
Third World Countries
because we are neither