Monday, August 24, 2009

Say It Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud



YouTube - Say It Loud - James Brown
My success with sun therapy (I talked about that in my Vanilla, Chocolate, Swirl blog) has resulted in a very relevant amount of repigmenting (my skin is turning brown again). My issue is for every new area of brown, there are five new areas of whitening. It appears that I am REpigmenting (gaining color) and DEpigmenting (losing color) simultaneously. As I continue to lose color, I start to ponder the idea that I may indeed turn completely white.

Who cares? I'll be white as in skin color only. Have you seen my features and my hair? Even if complete depigmenting results, I guarantee that I will always be seen as a person of color. To my fellow caucasian vitiligo friends, cherish the fact that vitiligo likely will not cause outsiders to question your heritage. I am and I always will be a "sister". In the words of the "late, great" James Brown...."Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud!" Now you say it, you’re White, Black, Red, Yellow, Brown, or…and you’re proud.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Watching the video, made me want to raise my fist and chant along with James Brown. I almost got out of my seat to dance. I agree that no matter your ethnicity, we should all be proud.

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