Brooklyn-based performance artist Nate Hill said that his art project, Trophy Scarves, was designed to shed light on how black men see dating white women as a status symbol.

Is it white and gold?  Or is it black and blue?  Not since Jessica Simpson’s “Well is it chicken or is it tuna?” question has any question stunned and befuddled America since an ugly dress turned colors in the shade.  But this post ain’t ’bout some ugly dress whose stripes would flatter only 2 percent of American women in any lighting (and no body on widescreen TV).  It’s about scarves.  Trophy Scarves.

"Cain't much spell her name, but she shole is pretty!"

The question to be pondered is whether that Michelle Pfeiffer white gold Bruno Mars sings about is turning black girls blue in the shade.

Lately, black women have been taking a beating at the hands of men in the media.  One week it’s Bill O’Reilly and the athletes, the next it’s musicians.

However, thinking back to Sojourner who famously asked, “Ain’t I a woman?” the sad truth is, this bashing of black women has been ebbing and flowing for hundreds of years.

And this year has been particularly cruel to a particular yellow flower, which keeps washing up bruised and battered on za Twitter beach.

“I would go anywhere with you, too, Mandingo!”

“That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman?” –Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), from a speech delivered at the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, 1852.

"Mandingo?" "Ain't this some..."

"Ain't I white enough...for some respect?"

Since Amber Rose’s divorce from Wiz Khalifa, it’s glaringly noticeable that the usually yellow sunshine in her petals have browned in the shade.  Last year, fans of the couple nearly dropped their bongs when they heard the couple was spliffing, er, splitting.  So when Wiz took to the studio and dimmed the lights down low as Hades on their relationship woes, black women everywhere cried:  “Shush all that shade!”  Making matters worse, when photos surfaced showing dog poo on the patio and trash lining the perimeter of Amber Rose’s home (where presumably Baby Bash plays with his toys), the filth was attributed to “the dirty black girl.”

Back when Kanye West was just biding his time with Amber Rose...waiting on fool's gold.

Then, as if the decay between black men and women was not stinky enough, “the dirty black girl’s” old boo (also known as the fly still hovering over the poo) went on national radio throwing more shade:

“It’s very hard for a woman to wanna be with someone that’s [been] with Amber Rose,” said Mr. Kim Kardashian.  “I had to take 30 showers before I got with Kim. [Amber Rose is] just soaking in the moment. If Kim had dated me when I wanted, there would be no Amber Rose.” –Kanye West

Since Kanye West traded Amber Rose’s a$$ in for a white girl (according to his own lyrics), perhaps he should let her name forever pass from his ignorant and disrespectful lips.  Every arrogant nobody who is anybody, Mr. West, was made by somebody.  In the past, your antics have been very entertaining but right now black women turning blue in all this shade need you to take Al Roker’s sage advice:  “Stop being a bully and sit down and shut the hell up!”

As for Wiz Khalifa, whether Amber Rose’s ‘kitty’ is overrated or not, that kitty still belongs to his child’s mother.  A real man (yes, like flawed Bobby Brown) would have kept his trap shut.  A real man would have cleaned up after the dog and taken out the trash.  That’s what real men do—if not for the love of the woman, then for the love of the child.

All any black woman turning blue in all this shade is asking is simply this:  If the black woman’s cup won’t hold but a pint, and yours—black man—holds a quart, wouldn’t you be mean not to let her have her little half measure . . . fully?

In other words, stop all this Hollywood Shuffling!  Black men and women don’t have to be together.  But they can certainly co-exist without throwing so much shade that the other disappears in the blackground.