Lisa Turtle

It. Is. True. I didn't embrace my blackness until I was in my late 20's. To be fair, I grew up in a small town in Georgia called Lilburn. There were only a handful of us coloreds and one token attractive black guy with a serious African last name. He claimed he wasn't African but I knew he ate goat soup.. I just knew it! I learned how to adapt to being a Backstreet Boys fan and wearing the white people Timberlands (don't front..You know what the white people Timberlands look like). When I got older and began traveling for music I started to realize that I had something kinda magical. I didn't have to use lip liner on the outside of my top lip to enhance its fullness because.. my lips were already full. I was thin but I still had a butt. My skin was brown and I didn't have to spray paint it on and not shower for a day to make sure that it stayed that way. As much as the world tried to make me feel like I was the lesser form of beauty, I was actually the damn prototype of all things real bomb. I don't say this to gloat! This comes strictly off the heels of a plethora of conversations i've had with women of color lately about color appropriation. Although LA is considered the hub for injections, implants, nips, tucks and sucks, if i'm keeping it 100, women all around the world are scraping their coins together to achieve a look that we (black girls) have naturally. All we have to do is be BORN! Being a black girl is like having an inheritance. Yeah.. kinda like a silver spoon filled with the rebuking of crows feet. We don't age and we aren't out here like the Sanderson sisters sucking the lives out of little children to stay young forever (That was a Hocus Pocus) reference. I think it's important to address modern culture and the current trends that have made waves in keeping people in a space of discontentment. Why is it that some white women feel like they need more "ethnic" features?

Wypipo, please don't be offended. I feel your pain because once upon a time I was you (didn't you read the first few sentences)?!! I'm not going to lie. A large part of me gets annoyed when I see Caucasian women doing everything in their power to be part of the Freaknik culture but then I quickly snap out of it because lets be honest.. AINT NO MF WAY!!! how?? HoW?? HOW???? We are often imitated but never duplicated. Lastly, before you go on a tangent about how we wear weave.. I have a strong rebuttal. 70 percent of black women are natural right now so what you've witnessed as of late is a Mongolian Kinky curly. Bye girl!

Seriously though. I love everybody but I had to stamp and address this topic. Fight me! Thoughts??