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I came home from school one weekend to wash clothes, steal some food, etc. It was pretty late so i didn’t make a lot of noise comin in the house.

I went to the kitchen first of course, looked towards my parents room and their light was off but the tv was on. I figured they were sleep so i raided the fridge.

I started heading back to my room and peeked into their room & my dad was sitting up in the bed and said, “BOY, you better announce yourself when you come in this house! Turn on the light.”

Let’s just point out the stupidity in this: why would Blue come into this world looking racially ambiguous when both her parents are Black?

It’s heartbreaking and infuriating to see that thousands of people have replied, retweeted and favorited this deplorable tweet in agreeance. Blue is a beautiful little girl but because of her Black features she’s constantly called ugly. The comparisons to North West never end, because North is a girl applauded for what Blue “should” look like.

"It appears that they forgot, or perhaps never cared to realize, that Blue Ivy is the child of two Black parents, and that their hopes and dreams of her being the beige child they could obsess over, and project their anti-Blackness onto, have been deferred. For as Blue Ivy grows and develops into the beautiful child that she is, her features have not stayed in the realm of Whiteness that so many of us are comfortable with when it comes to finding Black to be beautiful. Her hair is not the wavy texture that they hoped for. Her nose is not the thin one they hoped for. Her skin is not the beige, off-white, lemon color that they hoped for. Blue Ivy is a Black child with full lips, hair that grows defiantly towards the sky, and skin that is much more chocolate than vanilla… And this has many people furious.” (Please read Projecting our Anti-Blackness onto Blue Ivy)

What year is this

Tumbling

It’s just a flesh wound.

because

y’know