I love this shirt.
Black women get upset, bothered, and…well…pissed when we go to the store around this time a year (before St. Patrick’s Day) and see all the “Everybody Loves A Irish Girl” shirts. I’ve seen shirts proclaiming that everybody loves a Blonde, a Brunette, a Scottish Girl, even a Jamaican Girl. Jamaican was the closest I’d seen. LOL So, I designed this shirt so that I could have one. So, that I could wear my truth.
There is something about a black woman. Solomon knew it. Mark Anthony knew it. Slave owners knew it. Black men know it everyday of their lives. Our skin, our sass, our hair, our a…well, you know. There is nothing quite like a Black Woman, Black Girl, Black Sista…nothing.
10 responses so far ↓
1 Erin Williams // Feb 26, 2008 at 1:02 pm
I want one of these. Where can I find one?
2 triskelion // Feb 26, 2008 at 8:43 pm
That shirt is cute…and I don’t know about your family background but a very large percentage of African-American women CAN wear those shirts with pride on St. Paddy’s- at around the same time, freed slaves were moving North in the late 19th century, a shit-ton of Irish immigrants were coming to America and settling in the same areas the blacks relocated to. Until the early 19oos, other Euro-Americans looked down on the Irish and they weren’t considered “white.” So both freed slaves and Irish immigrants lived and worked together in the same areas and were both severely oppressed leading to many inter-racial marriages between blacks and Irish.
3 amaka // Feb 26, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Erin, you can get the shirt at http://cafepress.com/nappyuniversity
Triskelion, you are correct however that information is not something that the average American with think of if they saw me in a “Everybody Loves an Irish Girl” t-shirt. Trust me.
4 Thup // Feb 27, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Just a point about your comments - Cleopatra was a Macedonian Greek and not a native African, ie not black.
5 girlgriot // Feb 27, 2008 at 8:40 pm
I definitely want one of those! And Triskelion’s right about us being able to wear the Irish t-shirts. In my case, it would have to be “Everybody loves a Welsh girl,” though. I had a lot of fun traveling in Wales, calling ahead to make hotel reservations and having people say (on the phone), “Oh, a Welsh name! You’ve come home!” And then I would show up and shock the mess out of them. Definitely gettin’ the shirt!
6 Stank-0 // Mar 11, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Always appreciate…but the Nappy Univ series is my new shyt. HOLLA!
7 jacui // Mar 13, 2008 at 10:55 pm
i like the shirt but i dont think its fair 2 say that ppl get upset cuz of the everyody loves an irish girl shirts. its st patricks day, lighten up
8 amaka // Mar 13, 2008 at 11:21 pm
LOL. It’s not just the irish girl shirts. The thing is equal opportunity. Where are the asian girl shirts or dezi girl shirts??
9 Zavi // Mar 15, 2008 at 3:30 pm
There are shirts for other groups, I have seen asian, latino, mixed, jewish, blonde, red head, etc they used to sell them at urban outfitters
http://www.happyscrappy.com/blog/archives/001969.html http://mattersofrace.blogspot.com/2006/09/everyone-loves-shirts.html
10 JayWO // May 16, 2008 at 9:08 am
I want one of those shirts too….but do they come in another color besides pink. Some of us men want to support the sistas too.
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