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In today's society, black self-love has also been at its highest, because if you don't love yourself in a world that makes a mockery of you, then who will?

On a more positive note....

Unique Johnson

Eng 340

Fall 2016

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How does a black woman still give off love and stay true to herself, even when the world tends to over-sexualize and degrade her features, and praise them on other non-black women?

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A black woman has always known that she is more than just her body.

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"There is nothing inherently sexual about black women, but instead, there is a sexuality placed upon their bodies, first by colonizers, then by the slaveholders, and now by the popular media." - Lindsey Wiltse (famous author)

Cultural Appropriation vs. Cultural Appreciation

For so long black women have been made fun of because of their naturally curvy bodies and large lips, and now when a non-black women surgically enhances herself, she is praised.

Amandla Stenberg

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"Black features are beautiful, black women are not. White women are paragons of virtue and desire, black women are objects of fetishism and brutality".

The media gives off the idea that black women are only good for sexualizing their body.

BLACK POWER

Now ask yourself.... why?

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Fear of the Color Black

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