Jill Scott is being called a Racist.
Jill Scott, a grammy award winning R&B soul singer and actress, recently wrote an article in Essence magazine about Inter-racial couples and "the wince" incurred by herself and other black women when she witnesses a successful black man married to a white woman and people are going crazy!
The Essence article simply explains the history of slavery which has left a permanent scar in our subconcious regarding the images of white woman, black woman, and black men. She discusses how the mistreatment of people due to skin color has left her feeling some sort of way when she witnesses inter-racial couples. So what!
Jill Scott isn't racist, she's just being REAL.
The comments following her story are ignorant and consist of people ignoring history and lieing to themselves. Jill Scott doesn't mention anything about her wishing the Black man discussed would have married a Black woman instead of a White woman, nor does she say that they can't be together or love each other, she simply describes her feelings towards the matter. What really disturbs me is how Black women are responding like they don't feel anything when they see the same thing. And if you do or don't, it's a feeling inspired by years of brainwashing to the point where, mentally, its almost natural. She never states that she feels "betrayed". She never states that it's "wrong". All she says is it's a feeling she experiences and feels like other Black women might also experience this feeling and now is the time to analyze why and where is this feeling coming from.
This controversy upsets me because Jill Scott is being discredited and being called a racist simply because she was brave and honest enough to submit her real feelings to the world only to be criticized. And the sadest part, is that the people who are criticizing her are probaly all of her same race; African-Americans! And in particular, African-American women.
Why must we continue to find divisive ways to bring each other down? We are becoming as closed minded as the Europeans that originally enslaved us! Anything that is unique was once declared "savage" and "barbaric"; we now call it "racist" and "prejudice". Stop being so sensitive and shunning people that are being real. Maybe if some of us weren't so busy trying to pretend like the injustices of the past didn't happen, THEN we could move forward. Stop being an Uncle Tom and kissing the Master's ass with all this crap, do you even know who you truly are or are you to busy trying to impress someone else? We can't have progressive change by eliminating what happened and hiding our true feelings. These are conversations we need to have within our communities to recognize the foundation of the problem so we can trace our feelings, and work together to make positive advancements.
So all you who are calling Jill Scott a racist. Please read the article and try to be empathetic, not judmental. And let me know what your comments are.
http://www.essence.com/relationships/commentary_3/commentary_jill_scott_talks_interracial.php
Jill Scott, a grammy award winning R&B soul singer and actress, recently wrote an article in Essence magazine about Inter-racial couples and "the wince" incurred by herself and other black women when she witnesses a successful black man married to a white woman and people are going crazy!
The Essence article simply explains the history of slavery which has left a permanent scar in our subconcious regarding the images of white woman, black woman, and black men. She discusses how the mistreatment of people due to skin color has left her feeling some sort of way when she witnesses inter-racial couples. So what!
Jill Scott isn't racist, she's just being REAL.
The comments following her story are ignorant and consist of people ignoring history and lieing to themselves. Jill Scott doesn't mention anything about her wishing the Black man discussed would have married a Black woman instead of a White woman, nor does she say that they can't be together or love each other, she simply describes her feelings towards the matter. What really disturbs me is how Black women are responding like they don't feel anything when they see the same thing. And if you do or don't, it's a feeling inspired by years of brainwashing to the point where, mentally, its almost natural. She never states that she feels "betrayed". She never states that it's "wrong". All she says is it's a feeling she experiences and feels like other Black women might also experience this feeling and now is the time to analyze why and where is this feeling coming from.
This controversy upsets me because Jill Scott is being discredited and being called a racist simply because she was brave and honest enough to submit her real feelings to the world only to be criticized. And the sadest part, is that the people who are criticizing her are probaly all of her same race; African-Americans! And in particular, African-American women.
Why must we continue to find divisive ways to bring each other down? We are becoming as closed minded as the Europeans that originally enslaved us! Anything that is unique was once declared "savage" and "barbaric"; we now call it "racist" and "prejudice". Stop being so sensitive and shunning people that are being real. Maybe if some of us weren't so busy trying to pretend like the injustices of the past didn't happen, THEN we could move forward. Stop being an Uncle Tom and kissing the Master's ass with all this crap, do you even know who you truly are or are you to busy trying to impress someone else? We can't have progressive change by eliminating what happened and hiding our true feelings. These are conversations we need to have within our communities to recognize the foundation of the problem so we can trace our feelings, and work together to make positive advancements.
So all you who are calling Jill Scott a racist. Please read the article and try to be empathetic, not judmental. And let me know what your comments are.
http://www.essence.com/relationships/commentary_3/commentary_jill_scott_talks_interracial.php
I also encourage anyone who disagrees to read this statement Jill Scott made on CNN to Anchor Tony Harris on Friday, March 26th.
JILL SCOTT: I'm going to take on a lot of different issues and thoughts and feelings. This is a Black woman's magazine and it's for everybody, but it's specifically the viewpoint of a Black woman. that's what i am. so i'm going to continue to write and critically write con accepts, ideas, things that trouble us, frustrate us, make us wonder so we can talk. If we don't talk, we don't heal. That's my whole point of position. I have no issue or problem with interracial love. i'm all for love. Love is the most wonderful thing ever created. So i don't want people to get confused by this. I just wanted to discuss what that little pinch is, what that that quiet little "ouch", are that comes from.
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