It's A White Thing

You may be wondering what's up with that title...well I'm writing because I am so tired of hearing African American women say that Scrapbooking is a "White Women" thing. I am an African American female who is an avid scrapbooker and an Independent Consultant with a major scrapbooking company. I just can't get past this foolishness. We all take photographs, we create memories don't we? So what is this nonsense. We are a culture of people who have so many memories, great heritage and family so why wouldn't we want to preserve these memories. How is sitting down once a month, joining other women and creating beautiful pages for our families to enjoy for years to come a "white woman" thing. I know that there are a lot of African American women who scrapbook and I belong to alot of organizations; however, we already are scrapbookers and we love it. We would like to tell others of our enjoyment. I have tried, unsuccessfully to host get togethers, make presentations to my community and all I get is "I don't have time for that, " That's for White women," "That's a White woman's hobby." I'm just amazed. We can spend money on hair, weaves, nails, food that shouldn't even be eaten, clothes that are so over the top and other craziness...but yet we can't spend money on something that will be preserved for life. Where are our priorities? When my daughter's friends come over my house and they see me in my scrapbooking room creating albums of all my daughter's events the comment I get is "I wish my mom would do this for me." What does that tell you. Come on mom's your children want to see their memories. Why buy the darn camera and take pictures if they're just going to sit there. One day you will wish you had these memories.





With that, I'm Just Sayin"