Another wonderful post from @humanearl. When I first saw your user name, I had no idea why you chose it, but after following your last two posts,now I know why.

You have the betterment of humanity at heart. You have really impacted my life in just less than 1week.thanks a lot.

Am black, and am proud of who I am. Your culture is who you are. However, to detest WHOM you are and your lineage - is a pity and deception, a product of pressure from the world and its elements.

I'm glad/happy that I'm Black and would never want to be another colour, race or ethnicity. If I could have chosen, thats what I would have chosen for myself.

However, I am proud of the person I am, I'm truthful, strong, forgiving, loving, wise and all that good stuff. Those are character traits which I had to nurture, safeguard in a decided way even though some of it is in my nature.

I look at being black as a blessing, which I did not bestow upon myself,but is a gift from God, and which am mighty thankful for. In other words, I am proud of who i have become, but thankful for what I am.