Eka Darville Instagram – The hatred directed toward blackness has a history so deep, so pervasive that no continent, no culture, no community has been spared.
When I was a young kid growing up in all white Australia, I hated the colour of my skin, the shape of my nose, the texture of my hair. I remember being 9 years old, looking in the mirror and just wishing I looked “normal”. But my family loved black culture and celebrated the beauty and majesty of Africa.
So where did I learn to hate myself?
The answer is everywhere.
The messaging that blackness is inherently inferior is a cacophonous bombardment that can be nothing short of crippling.
The resolve, self love and pure grit it takes to not let that messaging be transformed into subconscious belief is Herculean. That is why we celebrate #blacksuccess with such unbridled zeal.
We feel what it took to get there, and more importantly, its proof that little voice telling us ‘we aren’t enough’, the little voice that was put there by our culture, is WRONG.
Please let it be wrong.
The outpouring of grief that is spillin into the streets of America right now is a collective grief so deep that some of us dare not feel it for fear of being swallowed whole.
Its a grief that lives in our DNA and sounds like a mother screaming for her new born child that’s been ripped away.
When we see another black life consumed by the same system we feel daily trying to break us, the little voice smirks “I told you so”. I’ve been chocked, I’ve been shot, I’ve been erased.
What I see happening right now is both beautiful and sickening.
I see a pain that MUST finally be heard, and with the same stroke, I see an agenda intent on exploiting black suffering it yet another way. An agenda that seeks to divide humanity further, plunging us into a deeper state conflict.
These protests started peacefully, often organised by black mothers, but the violence and ‘riots’ have been intentionally incited. Why? Because never let a good crisis go to waste.
So, to my brothers and sisters, your pain is justified, your suffering is real and you deserve to be heard! *Continued in the comments* | Posted on 30/May/2020 22:05:36
