Analysis

Are white women mutilating themselves trying to look black?

By Xavier James

I've spoken to a lot of black women who had been accused (not by me of course) of trying to look white. Although the majority of them denied the allegation, the majority of them also attributed these changes to the latest style or fashion trend. But in hindsight they were directly or subconsciously imitating what white society dictated to be the standard of beauty. You'll be surprised what people will do to belong, to get ahead or simply survive. 

For centuries now, black women have felt pressured to meet a European standard of beauty, style and etiquette. And for the most part black women imitated their white counterparts as a way of coping or dealing with the rigors of the white ruling class placing their white woman and anything she wore, said or did above anything else. After so much of her own culture and style was withheld, shamed or beaten out of her the only thing the black woman could do is imitate her oppressors. In doing so the black woman soon found more and more doors opening up for her.

However, beneath the black woman's European dresses, blond hair weave, designer make-up and green contact lenses was her uniquely chiselled lips, hips, breasts and buttocks They hadn't changed. And white women never let them forget that for a second. They teased, taunted and psychologically tormented black women so much about their non- European, non-white features and darker complexions, that some black women began bleaching their skin, getting nose jobs and starving themselves half to death hoping to lose their big, round unacceptable buttocks. These are the same Europeans who in 1810 kidnapped an African woman (Sarah Bartmaan), put her in a cage naked, and travelled around the country making fun of her big butt, lips and skin. These are the same white folks who put Ota Benga in a cage inside the Bronx Zoo to make fun of his African features as well. Then with the unilateral help of white men controlling the media (movies, television, magazines and newspapers) the lily white image of the thin white woman was practically deified around the world but especially throughout America......UNTIL NOW!

 Beautiful images of black women began to surface and before long black women began to see themselves through their own eyes. They realized that they too were beautiful; their hair, their eyes, their noses, their lips, and their hips were perfect. Once the vale had been removed the world wanted, needed to see more. People began to look at the world around them through their own eyes instead of through the skewed blue eyes of those trying to create an alternate reality. As the world began to see more and more black women, the more they wanted to see. Big lips and big hips were all the rage. The same media that was used to degrade black women (and men) suddenly found itself in a battle to control the public thirst for more.  But they couldn't. The women, who were once worshiped by every culture and race on the planet as goddesses, were back!

White women, feeling left out and rejected, complained to their male counterparts about all the attention they were giving black women, so they of course had to come up with a plausible solution. First, to prove they were not self absorbed or materialistic, white women went out and adopted as many black babies as they could get their hands on. That would prove to the world they could be better mothers to black children then black mothers themselves could be; without the post traumatic stress that came from slavery or segregation. It was cool, trendy and attention grabbing but then the novelty wore off and they were back to square one.

Secondly, they needed to look the part. The collective subconscious mind of White women realized they weren't just competing with black women but the onslaught of Latino women as well. Latino women were coming out of the woodwork and being lauded and applauded as the next big thing. And these Latino women came with their own lips and hips to boot. They weren't just maids and housekeepers they were mistresses and lovers. And white men were once again sneaking out to the maids quarters- as they use to do to the slave quarters, to sleep with the hired help. In order to win back the attention of not just their white men but black men as well, white women were forced to take more extreme measures.

Tan in a can flew off the shelves. Tanning salons were booked to capacity. And you couldn't find an empty spot on the beach where a white woman wasn't lying there, baking in the sun, trying to get darker. Collagen became the latest craze, then Botox the greatest thing since high heels. And now butt lifts are the norm and injections are an everyday outpatient occurrence around the country. White women no longer want the flat, pancake rear ends their momma use to have, no they want the new, round, black behind; and they'll do anything to get it. White women are getting breasts on credit and Brazilian butt lifts in the back of shady doctor's offices as some would be nurse administers anaesthesia while looking out for the cops. 

I haven't seen a white woman on television in years with her own lips or breasts. They all look like black lip wanna bees, cartoon-ish, animated versions of real lips. The same full luscious lips white folks teased and tormented black folks for having, white women are disfiguring themselves to obtain. And now white men are describing their bigger lips as "pouty."  And the ones that are disfigured; "trout pouts" and "duck lips." The increase in failed medical procedures extent to Botox and botched butt-lifts. That's right; White women are dying for black butts. Butt infections are rampant; followed by discoloration and lumps that require corrective surgery. White women are paying unlicensed providers then bending over and getting injected with substances that aren't even meant to go inside the human body. Why? Because THEY DON'T WANT A FLAT BUTT ANYMORE! In Russia only 1 out of 4 plastic surgery procedures are successful, leaving thousands of women scarred or disfigured. American statistics are not as high but thousands die from complications none the less.

Is it self esteem, fad or overindulgence that's fuelling this self image debacle? I mean thousands of women mutilating themselves trying to look like something other then what they are. After seeing Lisa Rinna's lips why would any white women still take a chance on a procedure that could leave them looking like Donatella  Versace? What's been fuelling this obsession?

Could it be the white male collective pushing white women to such drastic measures? I did a history check and found out that white men have always gone to the black woman for anything of substance. When he needed his clothes ironed, he got the black woman to do it.

When he needed his house cleaned, he got the black woman to do it. When he needed his food cooked it was the black woman who fed him. The black woman even pulled out her breast and fed his children while his white wife watched. Who's bed was he sneaking off to get into as soon as his white wife was asleep? That's right; the black woman.  Arnold Schwarzenegger and Strom Thurmond are perfect examples of that. White males own and run the media. They drive the train of popular thought that creates the reality most people live in.  Could they be the architects driving this subconscious train wreck of white female mutilations? Are they trying to make white women into the black women of their dreams? If we are to subscribe to the Freudian school of thought, then the answer would be an absolute "yes."  I laughed when I read the Psychology Today article claiming black women were less attractive. I knew it was propaganda and psychological fodder to soothe angry white women.

I've seen documentaries detailing chemicals in the food and drinking water changing the body structure of white women;  giving them more shapely figures. These same chemicals make black women develop faster however white women develop differently. Where there was no shape in the vast majority of white women ten or twenty years ago, white women are now sporting thicker, more developed bodies.

A 65 year old white woman pulled up next to me at the light the other day. Her lips were so swollen and disfigured that I thought she'd been beaten up. "Botox" my girl nudged me. I new those weren't her regular lips because the crows feet (wrinkles) around her eyes and mouth exposed her age. She looked animated; disfigured. And why would this old woman disfigure herself trying to get a pair of black lips? That's when I remember what my grandma said; "black don't crack." But more importantly she (they) white women collectively have always wanted thick, juicy lips and child bearing hips. But since they couldn't have them, they tormented black women because they did. That's how envy works.

 Envy (also called invidiousness) is best defined as an emotion that "occurs when a person lacks another's (perceived) superior quality, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it.  -Wikipedia

Only medical science and technology has allowed this generation of white women to achieve what their parent's could only dream of; having black features. But at what cost? And is their new, more ethnic features going to change the way they view themselves or is the solution a lot more complex then mere cosmetic surgery? I've noticed Hollywood has been hiring a lot of white actresses with these new and improved features and giving them roles black women should be playing. White Beauty pageant contestants are poppin' up everywhere with these new 'pouty' lips. Magazines are featuring more and more white women with defined curves, and less with the old ironing board behinds; making it difficult to immediately determine what their nationality really is.