The Wicked Orchard by Sidra Owens
1 min readDec 11, 2024

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You may be the perfect individual to ask this question. Why? Can you tell me why Africans think so little of Black Americans?

I know why colorism exist amongst Black Americans. I know why lighter skinned Black People are favored. I know why Black men and Black women are forever at odds. It's by design. Back when Black people were property and commodities to be bought and sold, it was not advantageous for all the enslaved to be united. They're enslavers were successful in their campaign to manipulate and gaslight Black people into hating each other, and as a race and culture, we are still not free of it. slowly we are awakening, but there are so many who would rather tears down their own, if means acceptance by the descendants of the enslavers (And that isn't the fault of those descendants. I imagine it would have been extremely difficult to retrain Pavlov's dogs).

But tell me why?

Is it because of the rhetoric and propaganda of those same enslavers, who also colonized and conquered so much of this world? Or is it something else?

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The Wicked Orchard by Sidra Owens
The Wicked Orchard by Sidra Owens

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