My 6-Hour Phone Call With A Black Writer Who ‘Hates’ Light Skin Blacks & Africans & Tried To Convince Me People Were Only Nice Because I’m Light Skin

I will never open my life to others as long as I live I promise

Thursday, 14 September 2023

By: TB Obwoge

I’m done with meeting people and having conversations with others about myself, my life and my family or lack there of. I love writing and somedays I can’t even bring myself to write even 2 letters to form a single word.

I can’t help that I was born with light skin, none of my parents would have ever been with a white person, that was their choice. The same for all 4 of my grandparents, they didn’t mix race when dating and that was their choice. I do have a white great-grandmother, who was Scottish, her strong genes of red hair lasted for 2–3 generations in my family. I am about 74% African DNA.

I love and hate so much about Africa, never hated Africans. Yes, I hated how I was treated in Ghana and refuse to return to the country I once called home and yes I am writing a book about my experiences in Ghana. I hated how poorly I was treated, better yet how poorly other West Africans and Black Africans were treated in Ghana too.

I will never stop talking about the colorism, racism and xenophobia that greeted me daily living in Ghana. It was not even constant racism in America the way it’s…