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What is ‘Privilege’?

By zarinamacha December 5, 2017April 17, 2023
2017 / Racial Issues / Social Commentary

Privilege: a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group. Among modern leftists, social justice warriors, regressives or whatever name you want to give them, there is the term ‘white privilege’ going around. This presumes that anyone with white skin is automatically ‘privileged’ against […]

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Was Jesus Black?

By zarinamacha November 28, 2017October 19, 2020
2017 / Racial Issues

And does it matter? See, I’m an atheist, not a Christian, so Jesus as a person means nothing to me. To Christians, they care about what Jesus did as a person; he was this peaceful carpenter who healed people and created miracles in Christian Mythology. So to them, what his […]

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White women and black hair

By zarinamacha November 3, 2017October 19, 2020
2017 / Racial Issues

In my experience (and of course this doesn’t apply to every single white woman), white women generally don’t understand how black hair is looked after or managed. Unless they have a relative or close friend who is black or studied hairdressing, it’s unlikely they will know how black hair is […]

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Black women and weave

By zarinamacha October 28, 2017October 19, 2020
2017 / Racial Issues

I find it funny and ironic that back in secondary school I’d get girls saying I was ‘black on the outside white on the inside’, yet they were the ones wearing white women’s hair on their head. On the one hand, so what if black women wear weave. Some white […]

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Malcolm X vs Martin Luther King

By zarinamacha October 14, 2017October 19, 2020
2017 / Racial Issues

So it’s Black History Month (in the UK; might be different elsewhere). I don’t agree with the concept of Black History Month, just like I don’t agree with International Women’s Day or Gay Pride. I don’t take ‘pride’ in being black, and I don’t see why ‘Black History’ isn’t incorporated […]

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Lightskin vs Darkskin vs Blonde vs Brunette vs Bullshit

By zarinamacha October 10, 2017October 19, 2020
2017 / Racial Issues

I have dark skin. If you look at me, my skin colour would be on the darker end of the human skin tone spectrum. My skin is brown, not fair. I’m also brunette, but my hair is dyed red. (As you can see from my posing header picture). Among black […]

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Zarina Macha

Zarina started this blog in 2017 to document her general opinions and thoughts on life. Originally on Blogger, she moved it to Wordpress in 2020, and hasn't posted any content since 2021. She is currently updating the blog and plans to resume posting content by the end of 2023.
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