The movie was "Jumping the Broom." In the scene in question, an African American man hit on an African American woman. The woman was a stunning, dark-skinned sister, and during his rap he states, "I usually don't date dark-skinned women, but I am willing to make an exception." Wait a minute! What?!? Then to boot, at the end of the movie, a white woman asks him to dance and he looked to the heaven's and says, "Thank you." What in the world is going on here? If no one else recognizes that we have a serious problem in the African American community, I don't know what to do! We will never progress as a people if we continue to have the mentality that light is better. How can we have any argument with White America, if we don't love ourselves? I know this was just a movie, but we all know this happens in real life on a daily basis. For the writers to even feel comfortable putting the line in the movie speaks volumes. This is especially true because the star of the movie was a super light-skinned African American woman.
What are your thoughts?
I would have to agree with you about this movie. T.D. Jakes should be ashamed of himself. He wanted the darker skinned people to act a fool but wasn’t permitted to do so. Yes we as a community need to do better. I would honestly wish the reverse would happen, the darker you are the more your sought after. I’m saying this and I’m a butterscotch complexion. We need to embrace our blackness, all of us. To be noted as the first person on this planet, we need to hold ourselves to a higher standard. Stop adopting these European standards for beauty, that’s not us it will never be us. We are original, we are strong, we came from a land of abundance and beauty. Let us not die a broke down replica of something we’ll never be, something that oppressed us, something that has divided us, something that has conquered us for so many centuries.
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