obnoxiouslyfresh;8675495 said:
I'm in a Facebook blog group with mostly black women. There was a status made that said "Post a woman that is a perfect 10."
And you would not believe that about 95% of these BLACK WOMEN were posting pics of Christina Milian, Kim Kardashian, Salma Hayek, Eva Mendez, Kobe Bryant's wife, Evelyn Lozada, Megan Fox....
I was just absolutely floored. A Facebook group of all black women. Sad
Janelle Monae >>>>> all. And she doesn't attention-whore nearly as much as the aforementioned.
I'm not at all surprised by this. "lightness/whiteness" sets the benchmark of beauty in America, especially if they aren't of African descent. They've been teaching you to hate yourself since before you got of the boat; in some cases, as early as first contact with Africans on the continent.
They used to ridicule the shape of your behind, the kink in your hair, the fullness of your lips, etc., and now you praise them for having all of those things themselves. Nobody can tell me that there is not a psychological component to this. I'm just beating a dead horse. Y'all know the quote...
"Who taught you to hate yourselves from the top of your head to the soles of your feet?"