@aspen Hi there ...this thread moves fast...so I am all being in a hour or two.
You asked What is wrong with being black....there are probably many answers between when you wrote that, and now...I must go back and read....but if I may...can I say...in this day and age it is not so much what the whites think of black people ...but what the black 'think' that the white person thinks. I believe they expect the negative and it's been ingrained for decades, so it's part of them.
The black people who have good self esteem ...seem to have no problem ( I speak now of England in the late 50's when I worked in London ). When we went dancing we danced with many handsome black men
We got to know some of them .....From Africa...sent by their fathers who were Trible chiefs , they acted like princes...stood very confidently ..and had the gold jewelry to go with it. ( boy ..they could DANCE..LOL..so no shortage of partners for them...I was all of 17 at the time
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Just saying...is it perspective , ( what we perceive a thing to be, is our reality) and how much of 'what is thought' by them , is really true? I don't know...
Only you know that answer....