It's 2008 folks!!! Elevate by the way your think!

Okay...so recently I have been really perplexed by the amount of black folks (both men and women) who have such restricted color qualifications in the people they date. I'm tired of hearing people talk about how they can't date someone because they are too dark or not light enough for them. That stuff is played..for real. How could it be that we are coming this far in America tht we as black people are still enslaved by our own minds?? If it isn't instant gratification, it's our own self-hatred against the color of our own skin.

Now, recently, Young Berg made a comment about him not dating women darker that he, and that he doesn't do "dark butts" and that he is "kinda racist"....unfortunately he is just a representation of something that is deeply igrained into the psyche of many African Americans, and especially into the prototype for black females in the industry....come on black people....we gotta do better.

Let's be real....but there are a lot of light skinned women who get crowned with the 'pretty' title, when in fact all they have IS the light skin...and this is not to down anyone, but I really want to see when we stop judging a person's attractiveness by the hughe of their skin...that stuff is for the birds and we have come much to far to still be enslaved by that oppressive mentality...we have spend four hundred years living up to the qualifications of beauty and class of our oppressors, and now we perpetuae them ourselves...when are we goign to define our own standards and set our own ideals of beauty? It's gotta start about the way we think of ourselves...especially when we have dark skinned mothers but won't date dark skinned women...what is it, in essence, that we are saying about our very own mothers? let attractive be defined by much more than color...elevate your mind...



Here's his whack apology here..


“I want to apologize to every woman across the world,” Yung Berg told AllHipHop.com. remorsefully. “I would never want to offend any women of any race because I love women so much. You can tell by the music that I make that women mean the world to me. My mother is a lovely dark skin lady…I’m totally sorry and hope I didn’t offend any of my fans that have love for YB.”


....wow how did I predict that his mother was dark skinned.......