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Three black women have a conversation about colorism, natural hair, black men, and the modern day black woman. The participants are an actress, a life coach, and a filmmaker.
Is colorism still a prevalent issue? Has mass society warmed up to black women's natural hair? Has the movement to empower black women left black men behind?
All of these and much more are discussed in the pilot for BLACK WOMEN SPEAK.
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Yes, I do feel like it's not often talked about, but I definitely feel like it's present
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I have yet to see a completely brown skin family on the sitcom
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I don't think so, honestly. It's an issue. It's definitely an issue
0:52
There are people who still think that the lighter you are, the better or whatever, but I think that I see a lot more people
0:59
embracing, you know, darker skin tone. I noticed one guy that was like
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if you like skin, you automatically a seven. You know, like, people say dumb stuff like that
1:09
You know, we need to start shaming colorist people. Like, one day I just woke up and I was like, I'm over colorism
1:13
Like, I'm just tired of talking about it. You know, and like, I decided to let that go
1:18
I think it's really bad in the working world. I think it's definitely not accepted
1:27
I think you're looked at as like your hair looks crazy or it unkempt as they like to say I think black people have embraced women wearing different hair styles I don know about society One summer I decided to cut my hair off because I see so many women who have long hair
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For example, I went to a job interview years ago, and the first thing that came to my mind was
1:52
oh, let me straighten my hair. But then I asked myself, like, straighten your hair for what
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I think we are on the high right now. It is more acceptable for our culture, I can say
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society is warming up to it because they know that we're not backing down now that we're embracing our curl
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they kind of can't stop us. Every since I've cut my hair and been wearing natural, I feel like a lot of men are gravitating
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toward me and telling me like you know I this is the look for me
2:26
I see a lot of brothers like really embracing it and stuff and it's a beautiful thing. My son would be like, mom
2:32
You need to wear your hair curly. Like when I straightened and stuff, I'm like, I like, I like your hair better
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when it's woofoo. And I am not trying to shame it up on me because I wear it all, leaves, whatever
2:43
But it's better like, just having your own hair out. It's just being like yourself
2:48
And I think that a lot of men like that. I think it's a double-ed sword, to be honest
2:55
I think there has been, there's a lot of really uplifting, you know, websites and
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people to follow. There's a lot of people that are positive. I think there's also stuff out there that's like really ratchet
3:07
It uplifts us for sure because we see once again like other black women doing good or looking beautiful and nowadays everyone like yes melanin Like you take a picture Forget what you doing We like oh melanin her melanin pop
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You know, like, that's, it's lit. We live. I think that a lot of conversations happen on social media
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Even, like, on black Twitter, like a hashtag will pop up. And it'll be funny, but I think it's really starting a dialogue that we didn't have before
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That we had amongst ourselves as black women. but it's making it public
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And we can kind of see each other's issues, even if it's through comedy or whatever
3:50
Black women did these things for art sucks. Like, Black girls rock was started by a black woman
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Now, I'm not saying that y'all black men don't rob. Black men don't have magic
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I call it bunch of for y'all. But what I'm saying is, y'all don't know if y'all's up
4:09
Like, why we're gonna sit up and we lift ourselves up too? I feel like as black women, we do it for the culture every day
4:18
Like, we, when we are lifting ourselves up, we're also lifting our community up, we're lifting our men up, we're lifting our children up
4:25
Like, that just kind of goes along with the territory. I mean, that's just the way I see it
4:30
Stop hating on us. We pop, then. You need to accept it, okay
4:33
Right, like, let's do it together. Right, you got to, you got to be like, yes, queen
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And she got to be like, yes, we're saying. Boom, power cup. I think we as a people in general are embracing ourselves a lot more to push ourselves to to push society to progress Society is really was moving forward so much so that
4:59
people got scared. The people who wanted to stay the same and who benefit from
5:04
the world being you know not a great place. There's like this growing number of people that
5:13
really want to see that message move forward, the message of empowerment
5:19
We are a lot more multifaceted now. We're way more free and uninhibited
5:31
Women are really like about taking their power back right now. We are owning our power now
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You know, we're stepping into it and we're creating lanes for ourselves
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You know, we're, you know, black women are like the fastest growing entrepreneurs as, you know
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as of this year. And I think that's just amazing. It's reflected in the music and, you know, we have people like Ava and Issa and Shonda
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you know, Amara Kiel holding it down in the media and we have people like, you know
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Beyonce and Rihanna holding it down in the music arenas and beyond and being very black while doing it
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People like Solange, Cardi B, you know, different types of black women
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but they're all radical in this series. We're not only in the kitchen and cooking anymore
6:22
We can do way more than that, and these men out here, they know that
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