BLACK SKINNED

[pretty_brown]

BLACKSKINNED

Comments

[handheldbooty]

i know sorry isn't what you were expecting or wanting rather. i'm glad that you have grown pass the color lines. i enjoyed your entry, because it actually made me think about some things i wish i could change to fit what society calls beautiful. trying to learn how to enjoy what i have rather than what i don't. stay up =D

[pretty_brown]

thanks for the comment! i apprecitate your concern, but yeah i've grown up alot. but it's just something that i never quite understood. but yeah, us as black women need to unite as one, not seperate ourselves due to our skin colors.

we all need to work at it

[anonymous]

You don't know the discrimination I have endured from my own people. I am a dark-skinned Black woman and my daughter is also dark skinned. My experience growing up has been sheer hell. People-Adults and children have made comments to me. I mean to have adults blatantly tell you you are not beautiful or to put you down when they no better is sad- but it happened often and blatantly. Now, my 4 year old has to endure this crap. Grown women have told me she is beautiful for a dark skinned baby and they have had the dang nerve to inquire on the skin shade of her father and how dark he is, like how dARE i MATE WITH A DARK SKINNED MAN. These are my people- who do this My Black people. I love my Black people anyway but it disgusts me because I search and search and try to expose my child to all shades, but especially dark skinned women in positive lights in our community and in the media but that stuff gets overturned when a Black person decides that I am lower or my cild is lower for being dark skinned. I can give her all the images but in

couldnt have said it better

[anonymous]

Darker skinned women do seem to need extra-boosting in this society. I was first called "ugly" by a light skinned girl at age 5, As you can imagined, it crippled me for a long time. I was not black but dark, and had full lips and a wide nose. I always longed for the lighter brown skin of my brother and mother, and their keener features. My mother loved me to pieces, but I could not accept myself.

Even though I am gifted, (as we all are) I know I have not reached my full potential or even blossomed because of poor self esteem. Low self esteem is a killer.

I am now trying to repair my self esteem, and rise to my full (inner stature) as a woman.......so that I can be all that I
was destined to be. So many great gifts and talents go to absolute waste because of a poor self image.

[ex_mariisou]

wow, that was a powerful read. you're a talented writer.