Everybody has a certain preferences when it comes to what they’re attracted to. Some prefer dark skin, brown skin or light skin. But it seems as though more people are attracted to lightskin women. When interviewed many young men said they like light skin females more than a darker tone female, but they don’t have reasons as to why. They answer with things like “Well that’s just what I’m attracted to.” There is always a reason why someone is attracted to what they’re attracted to. They still have a slave master mentality. Lighter is better, because it’s the closest thing to white. Especially when it’s woman you’re bashing that look just like you or your mothers and grandmothers. Walking down the street, boys will call out the light skin female. When black people were slaves they had light skin people in the house and dark skin people in the fields. We overcame slavery. Why can’t we overcome intraracial racism?
People are brainwashed. African American History is a necessity in a school's curriculum system. But what they teach us about our kind is that we were hated, beaten, and seen as animals,not human beings. They don’t teach us of all the great things we contributed to this world such as ideas, interventions and successful businesses. They don’t show in today’s news how some people in the African American community are doing very well for themselves. We don’t hear about all of the great HBCus (Historic Black College/University) that are doing better than PWI (Predominately White Institute) and are on a higher academic level than most of those institutes. Media would rather show us getting killed by cops and posting mug shots instead of family portraits. Many in society believe that African Americans are only good for selling drugs and sitting behind bars liked that’s our first home. They think that our men are woman beaters and always the reason guns go off. All of the images of our women are sexaualized. They show us pregnant with no dad for our children. They think we live off welfare and don’t try to better ourselves.
When a child is taught about every bad thing associated with the color of their skin they start to believe it and it’s extremely hard to try to change their mindset because that’s all they know. Entertainment figures are the biggest role models to young children and teenagers. They have to set examples, especially for African American woman. “Rappers are all for black pride but, when you see their music video it’s mainly light skins or foreign girls.” (Dark Documentary) When our women are in a music video they’re never the leading female, they are the girl that is in the bedroom or sitting by the pool half naked. When you look at the woman they're dating, they are also light skin or foreign girls. You can’t talk or rap about how you love black woman so much then date a female that’s not even black. That makes a darker tone female feel insecure and feel that they can’t or shouldn’t be allowed in the public eye.
I remember when there was a time when society liked a dark skin female. One with a rich smooth, radiant skin complexion. One that didn’t need light to glow. Lupita Nyong’o. People in the entertainment industry praised her for being so beautiful and having a dark skin color. They talked about her hair and said it was beautiful. Why is it that they can say she is beautiful and not the other dark skin females in the entertainment business. I’m not discrediting Lupita Nyong’o, she is an extraordinary woman, I’m exposing the media. They didn’t focus or give credit to other dark skin models, singer, and actresses. They didn’t make a platform for them to get noticed. Just because they gave exposure to one dark skin female, they still don’t appreciate the dark skin. The media still doesn’t want us to exceed.
“The darker you are it’s more of a sexual approach, more than of a marriage and love approach.” That also put an impact on our men. They would rather be with a lighter tone female and wouldn’t even know why they like her as much as they do. When we had our first black president everyone thought that he would have a lightskin wife. They said things such as “Oh, I bet he don’t have a black wife.” or “He look like the type to have a black wife,” so when we seen First lady Michelle Obama it came as a shock. It was unusual to see a dark tone female on tv, now we have one in the White House!
-Imani
People are brainwashed. African American History is a necessity in a school's curriculum system. But what they teach us about our kind is that we were hated, beaten, and seen as animals,not human beings. They don’t teach us of all the great things we contributed to this world such as ideas, interventions and successful businesses. They don’t show in today’s news how some people in the African American community are doing very well for themselves. We don’t hear about all of the great HBCus (Historic Black College/University) that are doing better than PWI (Predominately White Institute) and are on a higher academic level than most of those institutes. Media would rather show us getting killed by cops and posting mug shots instead of family portraits. Many in society believe that African Americans are only good for selling drugs and sitting behind bars liked that’s our first home. They think that our men are woman beaters and always the reason guns go off. All of the images of our women are sexaualized. They show us pregnant with no dad for our children. They think we live off welfare and don’t try to better ourselves.
When a child is taught about every bad thing associated with the color of their skin they start to believe it and it’s extremely hard to try to change their mindset because that’s all they know. Entertainment figures are the biggest role models to young children and teenagers. They have to set examples, especially for African American woman. “Rappers are all for black pride but, when you see their music video it’s mainly light skins or foreign girls.” (Dark Documentary) When our women are in a music video they’re never the leading female, they are the girl that is in the bedroom or sitting by the pool half naked. When you look at the woman they're dating, they are also light skin or foreign girls. You can’t talk or rap about how you love black woman so much then date a female that’s not even black. That makes a darker tone female feel insecure and feel that they can’t or shouldn’t be allowed in the public eye.
I remember when there was a time when society liked a dark skin female. One with a rich smooth, radiant skin complexion. One that didn’t need light to glow. Lupita Nyong’o. People in the entertainment industry praised her for being so beautiful and having a dark skin color. They talked about her hair and said it was beautiful. Why is it that they can say she is beautiful and not the other dark skin females in the entertainment business. I’m not discrediting Lupita Nyong’o, she is an extraordinary woman, I’m exposing the media. They didn’t focus or give credit to other dark skin models, singer, and actresses. They didn’t make a platform for them to get noticed. Just because they gave exposure to one dark skin female, they still don’t appreciate the dark skin. The media still doesn’t want us to exceed.
“The darker you are it’s more of a sexual approach, more than of a marriage and love approach.” That also put an impact on our men. They would rather be with a lighter tone female and wouldn’t even know why they like her as much as they do. When we had our first black president everyone thought that he would have a lightskin wife. They said things such as “Oh, I bet he don’t have a black wife.” or “He look like the type to have a black wife,” so when we seen First lady Michelle Obama it came as a shock. It was unusual to see a dark tone female on tv, now we have one in the White House!
-Imani