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Dark Girls
Diane Abbott
Sunday, October 09, 2011
NEXT week, at an international film festival in Nashville, USA, a new documentary called Dark Girls will debut. Made by two black American males, the film is about the shadism in the black community and how it affects black women in particular.
The film features a number of (often strikingly beautiful) black women explaining how negative attitudes towards dark skin within the black community itself have scarred their self-esteem. The interviews are poignant. Even as they talk, the memories are so painful that some of the women are in tears.
They recollect how even loving mothers would remark on their dark skin. Women explained how as children they felt less lovable, less acceptable because they were dark. One woman describes how she begged her mother to put bleach in her bath water in order to whiten her skin. Another said how as a child she used to hope that she would wake up lighter. Others said that they hoped that their own children would not be dark like them.
Yet another woman described how hurt she was when a friend blurted out how happy she was that her new baby had not turned out dark. And a number of women described how black men only saw them as sexual partners, never as "trophy" wives or marriage material.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/colum...#ixzz1aHmfcXjH
On 2nd thought...the problem is dat unnu DON'T know unnuself. Time unnu tek di rite pill
Dark Girls
Diane Abbott
Sunday, October 09, 2011
NEXT week, at an international film festival in Nashville, USA, a new documentary called Dark Girls will debut. Made by two black American males, the film is about the shadism in the black community and how it affects black women in particular.
The film features a number of (often strikingly beautiful) black women explaining how negative attitudes towards dark skin within the black community itself have scarred their self-esteem. The interviews are poignant. Even as they talk, the memories are so painful that some of the women are in tears.
They recollect how even loving mothers would remark on their dark skin. Women explained how as children they felt less lovable, less acceptable because they were dark. One woman describes how she begged her mother to put bleach in her bath water in order to whiten her skin. Another said how as a child she used to hope that she would wake up lighter. Others said that they hoped that their own children would not be dark like them.
Yet another woman described how hurt she was when a friend blurted out how happy she was that her new baby had not turned out dark. And a number of women described how black men only saw them as sexual partners, never as "trophy" wives or marriage material.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/colum...#ixzz1aHmfcXjH
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