Jelani Baptiste
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It's Tough Being a Black Movie Star
Today, I read an article on realcoolnation.com about Black Panther star Winston Duke, or M'Baku, and his choice of a dating partner. First, in case you didn't know, I have not seen the movie as yet while I am on vacation in my native island of Trinidad and Tobago. I was elated to know that Winston hails from the sister isle of Tobago. My people are doing big things abroad. I'm also part of the diaspora in Canada where I work as a Supervisor for Nestle. Seeing the sacrifice Winston made to move abroad and his success now resonated with me and continues to motivate me to achieve my dreams. In the newspaper on the island and Facebook, lots of locals were praising him for his success, representing the islands and of course his looks (for the ladies). But as they say, with great success come great hate. The black online folks started dragging Winston about his choice in a dating partner. His girlfriend is Meesh, who is half white and half Asian. For some reason, a Black actor that represented the pride of an African culture in a movie for some reason can only date a black girl. This is not only isolated to him. Other black stars like J Cole and the actor from Marvel's Luke Cage, to name a few, have been dragged for dating lighter skin girls or—let's call a spade a spade—not dating a black girl. This infuriates me because to me it's society's way of telling me who I can date and who I can't. Not sure if you can see my profile picture, but I am of African decent as well (not all Islanders are black FYI :)).
By Jelani Baptiste6 years ago in Humans
Mindset and Relationships
Hello All, My name is Jelani Baptiste and today I felt compelled to write about mindset with respect to relationships. Mindset is important in all facets of life family life, business, friendships and work life. The list goes on. I am going to focus on relationships in this post with respect to having a significant other.
By Jelani Baptiste6 years ago in Humans