Black As They Is!

a Black woman armed. 

Why Black Women Should Be Rated Most Beautiful
July 27, 2014
author unknown

In 2011, a journalist, Satoshi Kanazawa, posted an article on Psychology Today to impose a study on “Why Black Women are Rated Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women” and I, among many others, was extremely appalled.

First it was the billboard hanging in NYC stating that the most dangerous place for an African American child is in the womb. Now this?! So, I am here to rebuttal that whole racist and stereotypical article. I will share why in my social and psychological judgement, BLACK WOMEN MAY BE RATED MOST ATTRACTIVE.

I am sick and tired of all the stereotypes trying to bring down our entire race of women by throwing negative connotations our way. To be honest, Beautiful Black women have been through a lot, and have built so much strength over the years. Beautiful Black women have been beaten and abused by men of our race and other races, Beautiful Black women have had our identities stolen, and our pride stripped.

For many years, centuries even, Beautiful Black women have had to overcome so much adversity, pain, and misfortune. Beautiful Black women had our children taken from us, Black women been kidnapped from our native lands, forced into alternative lifestyles, and sold like property. Beautiful Black women have had to bear children, raise them alone, watch them get killed we’ve been shunned by our own people, devalued by other races, and continue to strive for a better way of life for the generations of African Americans to come… all while finding ways of keeping a sane and stable mind. So with that, I am here to speak my piece.

Now, I can’t speak for all Black women, nor can I speak for all the men who rate Beautiful Black women. But for those I do know, I have shared my views with them and they’ve shared theirs with me. I’ve come to realize the finest attributes of beautiful Black women and am so proud. Beautiful Black women aren’t perfect, no race or gender is, but Black women have so many unrecognized qualities and Black women deserve our platform to show it.

With that said, Black Women May Be Rated The Most Attractive because:

1) Beautiful Black women’s STRENGTH. Black women have endured so much and still persist to do better. Black women don’t give up in the face of adversity and approach life fearlessly, no matter how much we’ve been threatened and devalued.

2) Beautiful Black women are so VARIED. We come in all colors, shapes, and sizes. Black women are blessed with all different shades, all types of hair, Black women have no standard size and can be as little or as big as we please, we are thick, curvy, thin, petite, slender, large, medium, and small. Beautiful Black women are proud of who we are, uniquely and wonderfully made.

3) Beautiful Black women have such a unique sense of STYLE and wear our fashions boldly and proud. Beautiful Black women invent new ways of innovating our style. Beautiful Black women change the game on so many levels, adding new colors, jewels, accessories, and more.

4) Beautiful Black women’s SKIN is strong and just doesn’t crack. Black women can certainly maintain our youth. 

5) Beautiful Black women are BOLD and outgoing. Black women aren’t afraid to be honest and speak our mind.

6) Beautiful Black women’s HAIR can do any and everything. Beautiful Black women are the only race that can pull off any type of hairstyle, whether cut, curled, colored, straight, kinky, braided, bobbed, twisted, long, short, weaved, or not- Black women can do it all.

7) Beautiful Black women are professional LEADERS. People of color have lead so many industries, from entertainment, athletics, politics, science, and more! Beautiful Black women have been inventively changing the game for years and years. Black women are creative thinkers who never allow anything to stand in the way of our success.

8 ) Beautiful Black women are MOTHERS and LOVERS and always keep that as our priority. No amount of money or level of our career can take away the priceless role of being a mother or lover. Beautiful Black women understand the value of keeping family first and live to keep that in our blood for years to come.

9) Beautiful Black women are are as SEXY and SOPHISTICATED as Black women want to be. 

hair of Kandae Gunther of Black Atheists. 

10) Beautiful Black women are CONFIDENT, no matter who tries to tear us down, Black women don’t ever stay down.

11) Beautiful Black women are FIGHTERS. No matter what challenges stand in our way, Black women fight to find a way past it. We don’t settle and certainly don’t fold.

12) Beautiful Black women value our LOOKS. Black women are always researching new ways to keep our body, skin, nails, clothes, weight, and hair on point. Black women put great value in our fashions and appearance making sure we achieve the look that best represents how we feel inside.

13) Beautiful Black women LOVE our men. No matter what we’ve been through with Black men, Black women cannot help but love the fathers, brothers, sons, and male partners in our lives. Black women honor them and place them with such high regard– until they ruin it of course– and still, Black women love them unconditionally. Even without the looks, money, time, and physical or emotional attention we request of them, Black women can’t help loving the men in our lives. Beautiful Black women understand their struggle and try so hard to be the support and strength that they need.

14) Beautiful Black women find ways to EDUCATE ourselves even when education isn’t readily available. 

face of this Black woman is fierce. 

beautiful legs of Vivica A. Fox by Theo Wargo in 2015 

at opening of Fendi's flagship store in New York 2015

15) Beautiful Black women find ways to MAKE MONEY when we reach our lowest points. Beautiful Black women use of heads and don’t ever settle for being broke.

16) Beautiful Black women live, love, and LAUGH. We like to hang out, be with family, be out on the town, and enjoy the joys that life that has to offer in Black women’s various ways.

17) Beautiful Black women have FAITH. Although Black women may all have chosen different paths to our faith, Black women have a spiritual relationship with God that gives us the strength to keep on persisting through every challenge that comes our way.

18 ) Beautiful Black women are TALENTED. Black women sing, we dance, we act, we play instruments, we play ball, we write, we draw, we step, we swim, we design, and basically find some valuable skill in ourselves that we can someday call a talent.

19) Beautiful Black women are OPEN-MINDED and aren’t biased toward other races of shows, music, movies, books, people, etc. Black women weren’t raised to be that way, but understand how we are viewed by others and are always aware of that. Black women keep an open mind toward all others while trying to maintain our self pride and defenses in the midst of other races.

20) Beautiful Black women  RESPECT ourselves. Black women will never allow anyone to degrade our race to our face. Black women respect ourselves and our people and will always stand up for our cultural rights. Black women love ourselves no matter what Black women were conditioned to think and feel about being Black. Black women honor our ancestors and all their struggles seen and unseen. Black women believe in our achievement, our success, and our race someday overcoming all our adversities. Black women know what respect is and we demand it.

Keesha Sharp, actress on red carpet in March of 2007. 

Ebony Lynn, the composed mystery of

Lena Horne, a lady, a jazz singer.

There was a time.

African American woman's pride is won, and her strength is resilient. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Abonique.

a Black woman. the pride of her Ancestors!!

Afros were meant to build pride being Black in America, as a Negro becoming an acknowledgement of self above the terror of being murdered with aplomb by whites protected by a system of belief. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories [November 15, 2017]

Known to carry Life!

Kim Kardashian dévoile tout en robe transparente sur le tapis rouge. 

Beyoncé Knowles in the beauty of her pregnancy!!

Nia Long pregnant at 41. 

"Our women's strength to stand is dependent upon what she knows to tell herself.

In the first place, we are who we tell ourselves..." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 4.7.17 

What We Stand For!

Confederate flag waving

contradiction deep in white thought and sensibilities.

Confederate flag raised at Denver high school football game leads to injuries

"[“Some of our players reported that, when tackled, players from the opposing team taunted them with racial slurs.”] after a Confederate flag was displayed during the first quarter of a high school football game in Denver, according to a statement from Manual High School that was sent to parents on Saturday. 

According ...to a statement addressing what happened during the Friday night game, “Last night, the Weld Central High School team, which has a Rebel mascot, displayed the Confederate flag during the first quarter of the game, offending many members of the Manual community.”

“We asked them to remove the flag and they did. However, the tension created by the flag led to conflict…"

Colin Kaepernick said, To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way...

This young man, Colin Kaepernick, in the beginning and after much thought said, "To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color!" 

I know that strong men take strong stances... He unleashed the suppressed urges of rage and disbelief in a system governed against the greater good of Black Americans!! I also know that protest amongst Black Americans does not lead us toward deep inner change. As a collective we rise only above the limit of expectation of acceptance of white people. It is a strange dance, but done so often it is called something else by its practitioners.  How will this protest change us? 

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

September 29, 2017 

flag & the Black woman is a study unto itself. www.ShadesGifts.com

When Sisters Stand We Look Around!

Musa Ibraheem "OUR lives matter. That's what the slogan truly means, but bigots won't accept that our lives are sharply devalued in this society." 

Gregory E. Woods "They can't. Such an admission points back their direction with a responsibility to see and change! It is too much to ask." 


Renee Gray "It's so sad how Media portrayed this 'slogan' into a violence movement. 😢 I was researching the dude they killed (a young Martin) and the crap that came up first in my search was so disheartening to see our society continue to bash us... all out of fear! Smdh I searched blm." 

Gregory E. Woods "It isn't sad, it is revelatory. It leaves a responsibility upon you to do things you know you should. You cannot be responsible for other people's reaction to their truth, You can be truthful to yourself until you find the one thing, or the things you are unable to face and both you, and the whites in fear of this movement will have to face something together in separate places: your fears!

It, or rather this is the way of the warrior! "

Black Lives Matter. Believe DAT!

I'm Right I Kneel, I am Proud I Stand!

October 2016 Georgia Tech dancer Raianna Brown chose to kneel while the national anthem was played before a game at Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta.

Myth America.

I haven't verified this story but: “A teacher at East Middle School in Farmington Hills, Mich. is being accused of forcibly dragging a black sixth-grade student from his seat for refusing to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance.

The unnamed teacher is reportedly under investigation and was put on leave from his duties after “violently” grabbing young Stone Chaney out of his seat for not standing.

“The teacher consultant comes up behind me and snatches me out of my chair violently,” he told WDIV-4 of the Sept. 7 incident. “I was so confused. I didn’t know what was going on.”

These reactions are from white Americans unable to see themselves through other's eyes. No one gives a damn about that pain of theirs. It has always been like this: Blacks and others conquered and dominated by Euro-Americans have always stood above and away with their intimate knowledge of our white people! When light hits upon their myths there is always a violent reaction. It is fear based, but belongs to them. Because they haven't the propensity to do their spiritual work leave them to be, is what Black protest is about on a deeper and invisible level! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Bill Russell, 11 time NBA champion, takes a knee.

"[Francis Scott Key] shared a general view of the free people of color as shiftless and untrustworthy: a nuisance, if not a menace, to white people. He spoke publicly of Africans in America as "a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experiences proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community."'

~ Jefferson Morley / Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835 p.40 

A found Voice!

A Black woman, who speaks from powers within, with Power to forces against the resistance to subjugation without hesitation fears no one. There isn't a worthy opponent. There is only the wrong to be unwritten, the foul deeds turned over to show their underbelly and there are the Hunters, the fighters capable of administering the death blow!

These are my words!

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/23/17 

A Black woman, who speaks with Power!!!!

The Community of Greatness

Cassius Clay at just 12 yrs old, 1954 

 A young Cassius Clay, later to be known as Muhammad Ali, poses for a picture at just 12 years old. After having his bike stolen he tell the police office that was taking the report that he was going to ” whup whoever stole it”. The Policeman decided to take the young boy under his wing and teach him how to channel that aggression out in the boxing ring. He then introduced Cassius to boxing trainer Fred Stoner.  


 

White Power! Black Success!

Seoul Secret, a Thai beauty company, has apologized for this advertisement for a skin lightening product that featured the tag line, 'Just being white, you will win.'

terror of slavery by Michael M. Law,

models Donnie Dae, & Smiley Smile

White girl, Billie Jo Long, loves Black men exclusively.

Sheila Johnson, billionaire CEO of Salamander Hotels & Resorts

and [part] owner of three professional sports teams.

founder & CEO of The Living Well Institute, Jewell Elliot drumming at Malcom X park (Nov. 2015)

family of African Americans.

HOW WE ARE, HOW IT IS.

The 21st century look of Black Power.

The image is comical and sad. It is an easy joke waiting to be ceased by white humorists itching to draw attention between the contrast of what Black folks claim they want and how they act like. No longer the intellectual and aggressive threat to white people, or the system governing our lifestyle, books and analytical thought are replaced by intense concentration upon cell phones and the trivia pursuits of its worshippers. Black people come across as social buffoons, as black face comedians, throwbacks to Amos and Andy renditions of self and caricatures of who they really are! It is sad, laughable and how white folks maintain their sense of superiority over Colored folk because the resistance to them and 'it' is of no real force, or threat. It is just cute. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 1/12/17

His words are mirrors. They reflect back to us how Blacks are perceived by whites more often than not. He is telling a story we want to dismiss, don't wanna hear, evaluate honestly or deal with objectively, if that is possible. . .

~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Jan. 12, 2017

BARE exposure...

a stereotype of white women as Haley depicts it at home. It is a hurdle for a thinking Black man thinking about crossing the racial divide for sex and marriage. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9.27.16

Brian Lewis Houghton puts me in mind of the clash of culture when Britain and other Western powers tried to infiltrate, and overwhelm Japan with its nefarious intentions. Centuries later you found a way to bridge beauty with scope as if nothing hard happened, and there was only beauty to consider...  - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 1/4/17

The fall of light is not a descent it is an arousal of substances that make up the composition of dark creating colors and light. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories. model Rosa Brighdid by Silver Light.

A look women can give expects age appropriate responses, not typical unimaginative ones from old cats. Age is not the acquisition of power. Power as it ages becomes substance. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 1/4/17

BLACK WOMAN STRONG STORY

Black women convey emotions around their decisions at play with their responsibilities that provide for their men's energies, and their children's. There is complexity at work in simple forms that shape us. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 10.24.16

body of wellness, of truth to the Mother's hand of touch and fullness of strength within without pretense.