Black Don't Crack?

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Identity, International, Thestoop, Blackness, Storytelling, African, Personal Journals, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Blackart, Journalism, Society & Culture, Black, Diaspora, Blackculture

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

‘Black don’t crack’ is said like it’s a badge of honor, but is this phrase making us more insecure about aging? Hana and Leila explore the phrase with writer Patia Braithwaite who writes, ‘Black don’t crack is stressing me out.’ We also Stoop it with Dr. Michelle Henry, a dermatologist and cosmetic surgeon who explains what really happens to our skin as we age, and what she’s seeing when it comes to her Black patients. Is ‘Black don’t crack’ causing more harm than good?

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0:00.0	Hey Lila, hey, hello. Lila, listen to this. Black don't crack. The belief that we don't age
0:11.4	or get wrinkles is one of the ways that we embrace black beauty. This is Patia Brayth
0:17.5	Weight. She wrote this essay for Refinery 29. It's titled, Black don't crack is stressing
0:24.2	me out. By the time I was 34 years old, I thought I'd overcome my skin insecurities.
0:30.4	Even with the dark under eye circles that I've had since birth, I still got
0:34.2	carted at gas stations into my late 20s. But a few weeks before my 35th birthday, something
0:39.8	was changing. I stared at myself in the mirror each morning and wondered if my skin was
0:44.7	sagging. Then I texted my best friend about whether or not I should get fillers. I'd scroll
0:50.2	through Instagram comparing myself to my high school friends. I'd check Sephora for reviews
0:55.9	for under eye creams that promised to brighten dark circles and erase fine lines. I was
1:01.8	suddenly aware that my black might be cracking. And that's what we want to talk about today.
1:08.5	Black don't crack? Really? Hm. Well, the black sure is doing something.
1:16.1	Mhm. We gotta stoop this out.
1:25.4	The stoop. The stoop. The stoop? Stories coming across the black diaspora.
1:32.3	My cousins were water and grease girls, and I couldn't be a water and grease girl.
1:36.3	That's what I'm talking about about renaing the hood. We'd be gotta get you a 90 people.
1:40.4	When a black woman walks up to the desk in labor, what preconceived notions do you have
1:47.6	about her?
1:48.6	I didn't even know we had a hair shard.
1:51.6	The stoop.
1:58.5	Hey, it's Hannah from The Stoop.
2:06.4	We wanted to tell you about a radio-topia show with some news to share.
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