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I hate to rain on everyone at ESPN's parade but the way Steph Curry's daughter behaved at last night's post game press conference was completely unacceptable for a child not suffering from any cognitive issues. I suffered with extreme ADD and Hyperactivity as a child and would've never been allowed to act out like that. I wouldn't have even tried it. We've all seen children on stage with their parents before. It's 2015, this is nothing new. I don't know if Steph Curry's wife gave that little girl a Red Bull after the game but something was wrong. I never saw it as cute or adorable until ESPN bombarded me with that message on it's latenight SportsCenter telecasts. In fact, while it was going on I felt really uncomfortable. It was like watching a car wreck.
Now this is in no way an attack on this little girl but do you notice how much leeway she got for her behavior and how every single adult called her beautiful or adorable? How every jet black athlete who would never go out of their way to compliment a black child tweeted about how gorgeous this racially ambiguous little girl was? She definitely possesses a degree of cuteness that all small children do. Still why does every light skinned person automatically get labeled adorable or beautiful. Does anybody think that if that were D-Wade, Lebron or even Draymond Green's kid up there acting a fool, the narrative would've been how beautiful they were?? They would've been like, "Somebody get this little crispy urchin off the stage." I understand why white people find light skinned people adorable and favorable. They are the portion of the black community that most resembles them. Duh. That's not even racism. That's human nature. However, it has always boggled my mind as to why blacks, especially the darker ones make it their business to always dote and fawn over light skinned children and proclaim how beautiful they are at every turn. Now I know someone is going to say that I'm butt hurt because no one called me adorable when I was a baby. Wrong!! I'm Nigerian and we typically come out very light and get darker over the months so I did not have this problem. Women wanted to steal me from my mother when I was an infant.
Recently I polled all of the brothers at my job. The question was, "Have you ever seen a black woman call a darkskinned child cute or adorable." Of the 20 or so brothers I asked, none of them had ever seen this. Ever...In their long legged lives. Ever. And they didn't answer with malice or disappointment. There was more of a "Negro is you crazy" type tone to their answers. Now this may be a regional thing. I live in D.C., a notoriously color conscious city but I'm sure most black communities are similar. Back to Steph Curry's daughter. I want to make sure that this does not become about her. She just highlighted an issue that I'm sure no one light skinned or dark skinned wants to talk about. I simply ask you all to just perk up your antennas and pay attention to who gets labeled beautiful and adorable regardless of it's validity and who never gets those labels even in cases where they are absolutely stunning. Get in the comment box and let me know what you think about Steph Curry's daughter at last night's press conference. Would you have gotten a whuppin' if you acted like that in public??
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I hate to rain on everyone at ESPN's parade but the way Steph Curry's daughter behaved at last night's post game press conference was completely unacceptable for a child not suffering from any cognitive issues. I suffered with extreme ADD and Hyperactivity as a child and would've never been allowed to act out like that. I wouldn't have even tried it. We've all seen children on stage with their parents before. It's 2015, this is nothing new. I don't know if Steph Curry's wife gave that little girl a Red Bull after the game but something was wrong. I never saw it as cute or adorable until ESPN bombarded me with that message on it's latenight SportsCenter telecasts. In fact, while it was going on I felt really uncomfortable. It was like watching a car wreck.
Now this is in no way an attack on this little girl but do you notice how much leeway she got for her behavior and how every single adult called her beautiful or adorable? How every jet black athlete who would never go out of their way to compliment a black child tweeted about how gorgeous this racially ambiguous little girl was? She definitely possesses a degree of cuteness that all small children do. Still why does every light skinned person automatically get labeled adorable or beautiful. Does anybody think that if that were D-Wade, Lebron or even Draymond Green's kid up there acting a fool, the narrative would've been how beautiful they were?? They would've been like, "Somebody get this little crispy urchin off the stage." I understand why white people find light skinned people adorable and favorable. They are the portion of the black community that most resembles them. Duh. That's not even racism. That's human nature. However, it has always boggled my mind as to why blacks, especially the darker ones make it their business to always dote and fawn over light skinned children and proclaim how beautiful they are at every turn. Now I know someone is going to say that I'm butt hurt because no one called me adorable when I was a baby. Wrong!! I'm Nigerian and we typically come out very light and get darker over the months so I did not have this problem. Women wanted to steal me from my mother when I was an infant.
Recently I polled all of the brothers at my job. The question was, "Have you ever seen a black woman call a darkskinned child cute or adorable." Of the 20 or so brothers I asked, none of them had ever seen this. Ever...In their long legged lives. Ever. And they didn't answer with malice or disappointment. There was more of a "Negro is you crazy" type tone to their answers. Now this may be a regional thing. I live in D.C., a notoriously color conscious city but I'm sure most black communities are similar. Back to Steph Curry's daughter. I want to make sure that this does not become about her. She just highlighted an issue that I'm sure no one light skinned or dark skinned wants to talk about. I simply ask you all to just perk up your antennas and pay attention to who gets labeled beautiful and adorable regardless of it's validity and who never gets those labels even in cases where they are absolutely stunning. Get in the comment box and let me know what you think about Steph Curry's daughter at last night's press conference. Would you have gotten a whuppin' if you acted like that in public??
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