Check Out The Top 10 Affirmations Of Being African-American

There is so much that has been going on within the Black communities lately. It is enough to make people begin to question everything around them. Instead of the nation moving forward it seems to be taking steps backwards. So, what we as Black people have to do is remind ourselves who we are and that we always have to keep pressing forward. We owe it to the generations to come to show them that we are a group of people who will never be defeated. The more you push, try to humiliate, and break, the stronger we rise. Let’s take time to affirm ourselves and others with this….

1. Black is Beautiful

We come in various shades of beauty. From light tone mother-of-pearl to black-blue. We are lucky and some older people like to say blessed to not show the stress, trials or tribulations on our face. Our skin retains its youth like no other group on the planet. We enjoy straight, and kinky tresses. Our bodies are curvaceous, muscular, and thick in all the best places. From the switch in a mother’s hips to the swag in the Black man’s stride. Everything about us is beautiful, smooth, strong and gracious. Remember the words of Ruby Dee: “The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within—strength, courage, dignity.”

2. Black is BRILLIANT

So much talent consumes our race. Look around at all the accomplishments within our group. We hold claim to our own people, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, James Baldwin, W.E.B Dubois and many more of their time. Now, move into our time and we have had Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Maya Angelou, Aretha Franklin, Beyoncé, and who is in now sitting in the White House, President Barack Obama. We identify with none other than brilliance. Generations to come will have to huge shoes to fill.

3. Black is ENTERPRISING

It is all about making those Benjamin’s within our communities.  From the beginning of time until now, men have been all about making that money. Regardless, of what other groups want you to believe, you know that on any given day strolling through black communities, you will see men out on the street turning a profit. Whether they selling bottled water or lemonade, they making that money. Then there is the black woman sitting on the stoop braiding hair for $150 a head, figuring that $18 beats minimum wage any day. She about making that money too. However, the media will make you think that everyone in the Black community is unemployed, living on welfare and public housing. However, Black people know differently. You know that it extremely rare to catch a Black man or woman with a dime in their pocket.

4.Black is PHENOMENAL

Nothing stays the same in the Black culture. From the way we walk, talk, look and dress, we are always switching things up a bit. Just when society thinks it has us figured out, when our styles and ideas are already on the cultural copier, we switch it up. Black people are both the noun and the verb of this affirmation. We are not only just constantly undergoing change, progressing toward destiny, ever evolving.

 

5. Black is RESOURCEFUL

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