I Am Black and I Am Proud.

I really needed this. 

The people around me tend to question if I am proud to be black. 

I am! I love my history, my culture and the people who share it with me. 

I go to an HBCU for heavens sake. 

Just because I don't talk like you, walk like you or dress like you doesn't mean I'm not black; it means i'm educated. Those stereotypes who walk around should be the ones being questioned. If you were really proud to be black- proud to be from the same motherland of Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and Muhammad Ali- then why wouldn't you want to showcase the best of your talents. 

When people think of me I want to think of an educated, well-mannered, well spoken, worldly young woman who can carry her own. 

I am happy that BET actually used their power to showcase the amazing black women and the handsome black men who believe in us and crave the best for us. 

Because when the day is done, I want to go home to an Idris Elba not a Weezy F. Baby. 

I want my kids to look up to mommy & daddy and not think that they cant do anything because of their skin color or their hair texture. I want them to shoot for the stars and never feel like they have to be something other than themselves because that's what people are expecting of them. 

Just because the people around me are not the people I want them to be, doesn't mean there are not people like me hiding somewhere. 

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I just realized that I've been a pretty shitty blogger in the lack of labels that I've been using.  See, I noticed that you can put labels on your posts and I thought it was cute until blogger decided to change the "look" of blogger and not putting the label area where I'm used to.  Labels are cute so that people who type things into google can find your blog out of the hits they receive via LABELS.  Will I go back to older blog posts of mine and lebel them? ehhhhh, I'm going to say no.. whether it's because my current little cold has increased my laziness by 35% or because it would ruin history,  doesn't really matter.  From now on I will label my posts, not so much for widespread popularity because that wasn't the original intent of this blog, but because they tend to be funny and because I lack the romantic love option in this "labels or love" battle, I'll label the hell out of our blog.


I'd also like to add that I miss my friends and family very much.  Although it became a tougher drive when I moved to Broward, it didn't feel far, but being in Orlando and everyone being all over the place in Florida feels like I hopped onto a wild roller coaster that I don't know how to excuse myself from.  So shout out my big hommies, Honey bee luhhh y'all :*


xxxxxx Honey bee


(p.s. yes, the title is in German, shout out to my germssss out there too !)