blklat Where We Are Now: Love Actually (By Ayana Byrd for Essence Magazine)

Last summer I got kicked out of the Black Club.

I was minding my own business, waiting for my Colombian boyfriend outside the Virgin Megastore in New York City’s Greenwich Village, when a Black man came up and tried to talk to me. I nicely let him know right away that I was not alone. As G. walked over, the guy took in his barely brown skin and kinkless hair and proceeded to tell me what a disgrace of a Black woman I was. As I prayed G. wouldn’t take this opportunity to confront a lunatic, my would-be suitor concluded by telling me I was “officially kicked out of the Black race.”

(more…)

Related article: Black women speak out




 

Sphere: Related Content