

so basically i went on racialicious this blog and i saw this thing about Nigerian people and who we intermarry etc. and people's comments on what they thought about black people from West africa and how African American women are more desired than African women to African Men and all of these different opinions and I just recall my siblings and I growing up and I thought wow people really need to see everything before they start making stereotyes. My dad from Rivers State is light, and my mom also Rivers is dark. Her father is light , her mother is dark, my dads mother is light, his father is dark. Thus my dad is the only light on his side, and my mom is the only dark girl on her side with 3 light sisters, and 1 dark brother out of 9 children. And you know something no one every talks about skin color in our family I dont even think it was an issue it was the OUTSIDERS that are crazy. Im a mix of my parents so im a brown color, my younger brother is very yellow and has GOLd hair, the next sister is darker than me and the baby sister is Very light. So the youngest sister has my fathers soft hair its very mixed looking but anyway my mom had to deal with people saying " Oh is her father Puerto Rican or some nonsense even in Nigeria is it that her father is white ?!" But let me stay on track so I never realized anything until I went to public school and other people were like oh your AFRICAN ?! you dont look african........and then im like well whats an AFRICAN supposed to look like ?!!!!!!! or people say your not african no way...........or even you must have something in you I recall having the worst arguement with this girl CHICHI she was Nigerian herself so I thought she would of defended me. She said Onyinye you must have white somewhere, know I have already asked both of my parents who know their lineage very very well. I mean we have a huge family trea from both sides and its traces back to like the 1600's and his name is Odim...... and their is NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO white blood.
Or my brothers hair, why is it so golden? how is that possible?? Well, will people realize that life started where?! AFRICA that means we will all look different.............and do NOT JUDGE us for that.