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Originally posted by RihannasVeryOwn
It was dumb as hell
Light skin girls have always been the standard of beauty and always seen as desirable whereas dark skin girls have been taught to hate their skin, their hair that long hair with loose curls is 'good hair' and kinky hair is bad.
Light skin girls being memes and people joking about how they don't text back is nothing compared to dark skin girls' entire existence being seen as ugly and undesirable. That documentary was insulting and dumb as hell. Literally the only reason Oprah made it is because OWN was flopping and she needed something controversial.
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Look. I'm speaking from my own experience. Yes their is a problem that society, in general, values the 'lighter' skin over the darker...where lighter is seen as more feminine, the latter more masculine.
Its become, very recently, that possessing a female who is of lighter skin is revered, that they have become a fetishized obsession/object. To not speak of that would be a gross misconduct. I'm black. I've seen how black men especially treat fairer women. And it harks all the way back to slavery, and the persons who stayed in the 'Big House'.
