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Originally posted by Pharaoh
Totally subjective. I just feel like people on this forum are way too into race and segregation of it. I just don't know why a black girl would specifically need a black female role model. White people don't need a white role model either for the sheer purpose of being the same color as them. Could someone elaborate me on that
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It's the idea of representation. A young black girl will struggle to find confidence in her own beauty when the image she sees all around her in media, music film & magazines is of the light skinned people without black features.
A white role model will make a young black girl feel insecure about her own beauty because she looks so comparatively different than the woman white woman she wants to be like.