I don’t know about anyone else but I feel like I am living in the 60’s or 70’s right now. The same issues that plagued our country are still plaguing our country today. I don’t know if it is because I am older and more aware of what is going on, but I surely don’t remember all of this hoopla circulating the news outlets. Okay, so maybe I was too little to know but COME ON. Here are the few new old topics that I have seen:
1. Hot topic of the the SCOTUS ruling of the VRA Section 5 (I think that is the section). FANTASTIC.
Yes, please let us repeal something that helped minorities back when they were
being discriminated against and being left powerless because that is totally not happening right now anymore. Didn’t you know that racism is over? I did! It is totally over! I mean there aren’t any racists on the planet anymore. No one is trying to silence ANYONE or trying to 
restrict their rights and civil duties. Nope. No one. Speaking of racists…
2. Paula Deen. Oh my goodness. Of course she used the N word. Yes, she is a racist. She is the queen of butter after all. Should she have used it? Nah. Did she? YUP. Should she lose her job? Eh, maybe? I don’t care. I am not the Food Network and she is no sweeping influence (in my opinion) on how to live your life, but a ton of people like her so it’s news. This shouldn’t be a shock to anyone and Paula Deen should have handled this lawsuit or whatever it is herself. Essentially we are still talking about a famous and/or person of power who has done some racist stuff. Like people aren’t racist, psh.
3. Light skin versus dark skin. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? THIS IS STILL SOMETHING THAT IS A TOPIC!? UGHHHH. As a dark skin girl (yup, this is still a thing) I don’t care what shade of black you are. I don’t care if you go by the one-drop-rule or if you choose to denounce whatever lineage you have because honestly genes don’t lie. Do I think all shades are beautiful? Yup. Does everyone else? Nope, but I am just so tired of people giving so much power to melanin. We aren’t perfect and need to change the standard of beauty, but this topic has reared it’s ugly head in the public yet again and of course the media fails to recognize or expose that this issue has been seen in many other cultures besides African-Americans. Yes, let’s make black people look even worse, media, because they don’t have their stuff together, right!?
Anyways, this has popped up in tow different locations: The two year old documentary “Dark Girls”
aired on OWN on Sunday night and ABC Family’s The Fosters (Don’t judge me. Stuff gets real on that channel). If I had cable I would have watched it but I didn’t have cable. From what I could infer from Facebook and news articles about “Dark Girls” is that they spoke about dark girls being chastised by friends and family for something they cannot control and then they spoke about white guys liking dark black girls BECAUSE THEY AREN’T CONSIDERED ATTRACTIVE AND WHATNOT. 
Then, on The Fosters, a mother was berating her daughter about why her life is so much easier and better because she is lighter. BARF. I am not going to dive into this subject again but needless to say, the black community is its own worse enemy. We have to be comfortable in our own skin. Because the slavery mentality and herd mentality is viable and prolific, we as a community have not changed and it is disappointing. Once we (the black community) stops treating each other by the different colors we are and stop hating on ourselves and stop making ourselves our own enemy, we as a community can progress and then the US can progress and then everyone else. Is this lofty? Yes, but $#%# we have to start respecting ourselves and putting more value on how we can better ourselves in other ways like, I don’t know, getting an education? Culture is ultimately what you hear your Mama and Daddy say and do. So, let’s not make this cyclical and try to lead by example which brings me to…
4. Good hair (resembling white texture) vs. Bad hair (kinky hair) This is related to number 3 and needs to stop. Self-hating is all it is. Plain and simple.
5.
Interracial Dating. The Cheerio’s commercial uproar at showing an interracial family. GOODNESS GRACIOUS. CHEESE AND RICE. This topic is still a hot button issue. Oy. I just can’t. 
6. Women’s rights. Okay, so this may not be the 60’s per se, but I am literally too annoyed to type about all of this backward mess right now.
In the end I realize that people take an unimaginable amount of time to change and as we get older, we lose plasticity in our beliefs, but come on. I say this a bunch, but really, come on! There is so much resistance to what I believe would make our country a better place including resistance to compromise.
We are such children! The world is turning me cynical, y’all.