I like myself America, and you cant stop me!
Quinta Brunson
I found this TED talk one out of two the most relate able towards me. Quinta Brunson spoke upon the issues of most kids growing up in the society back then and as of now. She sorts her topics into three different categories; consumerism, commercialism and materialism. She explains the reality of the way the society wants everyone to be represented as one image. How if you don't look like a specific body type or skin color you are considered 'not good enough'. America enjoys to discriminate others of how they look and want to try and change them into something that individual is not. For example, the main issue on this topic are models. You must meet a specific criteria, you must be at a high unnecessary standard in order to even hit level one. In this industry the changes upon an individual are massive, you cannot be yourself nor can you love yourself originally as you are. " The American dream Is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become." (Ronald Reagan).
Quinta speaks greatly upon reality televisions. “ I didn't like reality TV, I thought the Kardashians were trash, love and hip hop, all of that crap, trash.” states Qunita. She says this because all that goes on in those series are falseness and unrealistically reasoning. With kids watching these shows will have them thinking that its okay to be fake and not themselves. I can relate because growing up in this society as a young black female I used to get thrown at with discrimination. Questions like “Why is your hair this type?” or “Why are you so dark?” . Hearing these comments almost everyday made me feel useless and horrible. I wanted to be someone else, I didn't like who I was, I felt ugly and unwanted. Getting bleaching creams seemed like the only way for me to get beautiful, to look lighter, to be excepted. I wanted to keep perming my hair, damaging it with 400 plus heat straighteners because the fullness of my natural hair texture was not appealing. Later on in life I learned to not give a mind of what others had to say. I accepted the fact that my opinion is the only thing that matters, which is that I am beautiful.
I indeed like myself, and America surly cannot stop me.
Quinta Brunson
I found this TED talk one out of two the most relate able towards me. Quinta Brunson spoke upon the issues of most kids growing up in the society back then and as of now. She sorts her topics into three different categories; consumerism, commercialism and materialism. She explains the reality of the way the society wants everyone to be represented as one image. How if you don't look like a specific body type or skin color you are considered 'not good enough'. America enjoys to discriminate others of how they look and want to try and change them into something that individual is not. For example, the main issue on this topic are models. You must meet a specific criteria, you must be at a high unnecessary standard in order to even hit level one. In this industry the changes upon an individual are massive, you cannot be yourself nor can you love yourself originally as you are. " The American dream Is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become." (Ronald Reagan).
Quinta speaks greatly upon reality televisions. “ I didn't like reality TV, I thought the Kardashians were trash, love and hip hop, all of that crap, trash.” states Qunita. She says this because all that goes on in those series are falseness and unrealistically reasoning. With kids watching these shows will have them thinking that its okay to be fake and not themselves. I can relate because growing up in this society as a young black female I used to get thrown at with discrimination. Questions like “Why is your hair this type?” or “Why are you so dark?” . Hearing these comments almost everyday made me feel useless and horrible. I wanted to be someone else, I didn't like who I was, I felt ugly and unwanted. Getting bleaching creams seemed like the only way for me to get beautiful, to look lighter, to be excepted. I wanted to keep perming my hair, damaging it with 400 plus heat straighteners because the fullness of my natural hair texture was not appealing. Later on in life I learned to not give a mind of what others had to say. I accepted the fact that my opinion is the only thing that matters, which is that I am beautiful.
I indeed like myself, and America surly cannot stop me.