Who is this, you ask?
Oh, just the most beautiful woman walking this earth… that is, in my opinion. Nia Long. She is an American actress best known for major roles in Love Jones, The Best Man, Soul Food, Big Momma’s House & Are We There Yet.
I thought of Nia Long because I was a bit perturbed after reading a statement that a young woman recently made about Lil’ Wayne. To quickly summarize:
This woman (we’ll call her Suzie Q for kicks) along with some of her friends met up with Mack Maine, a member of Lil’ Wayne’s group “Young Money.” He invited the women back to his hotel where Lil’ Wayne and a few other members of the group were partying. When Suzie Q and the other women entered the room someone stated, “y’all pretty, to be dark-skinned.” Lil’ Wayne then quoted a line from his song Right Above: “Beautiful black woman, I bet that b*tch look better red.” Because Suzie Q is my kind of girl she asked, “Wayne, your daughter is dark skin so why would you say such ignorance?” Lil’ Wayne replied, “My daughter is a dark-skinned millionaire, that’s the difference between her and you. MY daughter is the first and last dark skin child I’m having. The rest of my baby moms [are] light-skinned chicks. I even got an Asian baby moms to make sure I have a daughter with good hair. Too bad we had a son.” From that point, the women stormed out of the room, but not before one of the men followed to let them know, “Not everybody hate dark-skinned girls. Young Money just allergic to Chocolate.”
Lil’ Wayne denied these statements. Do I think he said it? Umm, duh. My guess is that after hearing the words he vomited out of his mouth, he was too mortified to be man enough to admit it. He wrote these lyrics –> Beautiful black woman, I bet that b*tch look better red <– who does Wayne expect to believe this didn’t happen?
Now anyone who really knows me… knows that I have been the biggest Lil’ Wayne fan for over the past 10 years. I’ve always viewed him as an overwhelmingly creative musical mastermind. In the past few years, I’ve seen Wayne channel all his energy into what seemed like endless rhymes, that he produced mostly for the underground [music] world of mixtapes. In translation, he did a lot of work…basically for free. The only thing he wanted for all this work– respect.
Over the past few years I’ve also seen Wayne transform into a reckless, syrup-sipping, bastard-bearing, typical superstar.. the kind who loses any grip they’ve ever had of reality, due to excess fame (insert Micheal Jackson & Britney Spears here).
Now, let’s talk about preferences. A preference is a greater liking for one alternative over another or others. I have no issue with anyone having preferences. I have my own physical preferences when it comes to men… & I’ll save that conversation for another time, another place. But! The two things that don’t go together are… one’s preferences & a skewed perception of reality. If Wayne prefers to date a light-skinned woman, that is his prerogative. To say any given brown-skinned woman would look BETTER if she were light-skinned, is just plain stupid.
Hopefully Wayne, all members of Young Money, or anyone else who shares their unbelievably brainless beliefs, will stumble upon my blog so they can see just a few examples of how wrong they are:
These women, gorgeous! They don’t need to be any other shade of brown, red, pink, or yellow to make them more beautiful than they already are. As a dark-skinned woman, I’ve heard this type of foolishness my entire life. I’ve been told things like, “you’re a pretty dark-skinned girl” & “you’re pretty to be dark-skinned.” While I understand that African-Americans have been psychologically ruined by the color complex that dates back to slavery… but still heavily perpetuated throughout our society– I beg of everyone to stop the madness. Stop, and look in the mirror. Think, before you let idiocy spill out of your mouth.
If you have dumb opinions… just let them bounce around in your brain. Don’t bother the world with them.
