negros and the tyra show...

i randomly saw this in my insomnia @ conjuredperceptions
i know you're not going to watch this whole thing unless you're extremely bored like i was...
it's basically women talking about bleaching themselves and THEIR KIDS because they're stupid they feel unattractive with their naturally dark brown skin.





first of all, i really think that tyra just uses her show to work out her own issues. hair issues, skin issues, body issues, vagina issues, she always just ends up talking about herself. i guess it's more lucrative than therapy.

i love when she does 'black girrrl' episodes because she always acts a little different. when she's talking about skin color she looks a little more tan. i lmao'd when i saw the episode about black women's hair because she had the nerve to have her hair in cornrows versus the barbie lacefront wig she usually sports and then is chastising women who are sticklers for relaxed hair. smh.

[just because. i don't feel like talking about negros and their hair. it makes me sleepy.]

anyway. being just regular old black [not dark, not light] i never dealt with stereotypes about that shit. i was always considered one of the 'cute' girls even though i wasn't that light. i guess that had to do with me always having long hair which made up for my "flaw" of being brown. when i was younger i wanted to be light with green eyes but that had more to do with me wanting to look like my favorite aunt than anything else. i guess we could question why i thought that aunt was so pretty opposed to my darker skinned one...
i was taught that pretty is pretty and ugly is ugly. no complexion had a patent on either one...

but then when i overhear little girls sitting in the shade rather than playing outside because "i don't want to get dark. i want to be lightskinned and pretty" and dudes outright stating "i only date lightskinned girls" i'm kind of lost for words. well i do have words for those guys...they're usually inexplicably entitled insecure assholes who i wouldn't want to date anyway

but it's 2009! we really still doing this?
if some people spent the time they use thinking about useless things like skin complexion on something more constructive, the world would be a better place...