{"id":3019,"date":"2020-09-23T15:16:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T19:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gabbiemcguire.com\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2021-06-07T18:23:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T22:23:49","slug":"ive-been-a-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gabbiemcguire.com\/en\/ive-been-a-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019VE BEEN A FRAUD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As entrepreneurs we are called to make sacrifices, concessions and down right acrobatics to reach our goals. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the sacrifices I chose to make have, at times, affected my family life, my sleep and my friendships. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On more sombre occasions, they\u2019ve hurt the very core of who I am. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Black, adopted woman of color.&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is my <span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">mea culpa. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bare with me, or don\u2019t. I needed to say this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #a65600;\"><strong>GROWING UP ADOPTED<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was adopted from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as a baby and grew up between Qu\u00e9bec and Ontario in a multicultural but mostly white family. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are role models a child looks to during their formative years, and while I appreciate everyone who chose to take on those roles, none of them were Black.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What this created was a comfortable yet scary environment, one where I never fully knew how to operate, express myself and defend my blackness.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I say comfortable because of the stability of my household and the well balanced life I was given, but scary because of the lack of intrinsic motivation to wholly understand the trials and tribulations that a black child could face in predominantly white settings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I regret no parts of my youth and chose to celebrate each experience I encountered as they continue to be invaluable lessons to me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That being said, I understand now, how the 6 year old Gabri\u00e8le (yes, that was the first time I recall facing outright racism in it\u2019s purest form) became the 26 year old Gabbie that is SO uncomfortable with her behavior that she feels the need to pen a full <span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><em>mea culpa<\/em><\/span> at 12:41 in the morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #a65600;\"><strong>TOLERANT, PASSIVE, HIDDEN<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was 6 years old when I was first called a stinky nigger by a little girl on the playground. For weeks, rumors that my skin was brown because I bathed in shit had gone around the class. I felt pain, humiliation and frustration. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My white mother taught me to love my skin, my hair, my nose, my forehead\u2026<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How other children could choose to ostracize me because of those same traits was as unnerving as it was confusing to me.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I wished I had had more friends during that time. A part of me wished I could crawl out of my skin, leave it at home to be more palatable to these young ladies, meanwhile, another part of me was furious, enraged even at the sheer audacity displayed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I told teachers, my parents and the playground educators. I didn\u2019t actually even know what nigger meant at the time so I don\u2019t know how I explained what was said or how it affected me.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I do, however, recall being offered an apology from some of the students. I also recall being asked to forgive them and move on, which <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I did<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> tried to do, they did not. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t touch me nigger<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You are dirty because you are black<br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t get you poopy skin on me<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Became recurrent themes of the ire I faced.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I would cry, scream, argue, leave, get apologized to and move on.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I can\u2019t confirm how many times this <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">manege<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> went round but I can say that I eventually chose to simply tolerate the behavior, hate myself &amp; my skin, my hair, my person&#8230;and move on!<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What began then was a pattern of tolerance towards aggressions.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The less I argued, the easier I thought the ride would be.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My mother finally changed my school when I came home one day telling her that looking at the brown skin on my arms made me \u2018not feel too proud honestly\u2019.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I carried my brokenness into my next school, into highschool and eventually all the way to Montr\u00e9al.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I made the decision to simply exist, live my life, build MY business and most importantly be tolerant, passive and hidden.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3020\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3020\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3020\" src=\"https:\/\/gabbiemcguire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Rita-Mae-Brown-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3020\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rita Mae Brown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\"><b>Tolerant<\/b><\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of <\/span><span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\"><a style=\"color: #cc99ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microaggression\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">micro agressions<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> if they weren&#8217;t directly aimed at my person.<br \/>\n<\/span><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\"><b>Passive <\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in my defense of my person as to not offend clients or business partners using ignorant language.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I also <\/span><b><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\">hid<\/span> <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">my adoption for many years to make sure I never got the most painful comment of all: oh! Great well that explains why you are so well spoken!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These practices made my existence in an oppressive society bearable. It made my existence within myself quietly intolerable.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As I type these words I realize that I am the first person I wish to apologize to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I apologize to the little girl within me for tolerating racism.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I apologize to the teenager self for tolerating microaggressions and instances of disrespect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I apologize to my ancestors for not being more vocal towards the systemic racism that me and my people have continued to feel for the past 400 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I type this is an absolute state of brokenness by my behavior. I am <span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><strong>SORRY<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #a65600;\">RISING FORWARD<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to\u2019s on how to move forward in the future<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #a65600;\"><strong>No more:<\/strong><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3041 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/gabbiemcguire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-09-23-at-1.09.30-AM-169x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #a65600;\"><b><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">Tokenization<\/span><br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tokenism is the practice of making only a perfunctory or symbolic effort to be inclusive to members of minority groups, especially by recruiting a small number of people from underrepresented groups in order to give the appearance of racial or sexual equality within a workforce. Wikipedia&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><b>How does this apply to my brand:<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I demand that you, as my clients, refrain from using our glam sessions as proof of your racial tolerance and openness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><b>Insensitivity<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When issues of obvious racism and\/or racial discrimination arise, I will no longer tolerate comments that aim to blame the victim(s). I will also not welcome \u2018All lives matter\u2019 speech or other similar narratives. This is both for my personal and professional worlds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #a65600;\"><b><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">Fetichisation<\/span><br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am gorgeous&#8230;not for a black girl, even though you usually don\u2019t think we are pretty, not for a Haitan (an by the way I am from Saint-Vincent)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><b>Touching my afro<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am not justifying my right to personal space now or ever. <span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><em>Thank you.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><b>Stupid jokes<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They aren&#8217;t funny or acceptable<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3042\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3042\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3042\" src=\"https:\/\/gabbiemcguire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/And-still-I-rise-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And still I rise &#8211; Maya Angelou<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><b>Racist expressions<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though you think you \u2018didn\u2019t mean it <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> way\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No more apologizing and compromising for my blackness, my womanhood, my art. No more shrinking to fit into spaces I have so fiercely outgrown.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have been a fraud, but I am no more bound to self imposed reductive standards.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am free and ready to represent Black Excellence to the fullest of my abilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because I am my ancestor&#8217;s wildest dreams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #a65600;\">Because I<\/span>, as <span style=\"color: #a65600;\">a<\/span> full <span style=\"color: #a65600;\">black<\/span> child, <span style=\"color: #a65600;\">matter.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As entrepreneurs we are called to make sacrifices, concessions and down right acrobatics to reach our goals. One of the sacrifices I chose to make have, at times, affected my family life, my sleep and my friendships. On more sombre occasions, they\u2019ve hurt the very core of who I am. A Black, adopted woman of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gabbie-mcguire"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I\u2019VE BEEN A FRAUD - Gabbie McGuire Beauty<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gabbiemcguire.com\/en\/ive-been-a-fraud\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I\u2019VE BEEN A FRAUD - Gabbie McGuire Beauty\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As entrepreneurs we are called to make sacrifices, concessions and down right acrobatics to reach our goals. 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