[AKA_Monet]

What your young men have stated does not surprise me. They have been indoctrinated at an early age to hate their own skin they are in and to hate women, generally. There self-hatred may have been inflicted by their family's own self-esteem issues of the concept of being "colorstruck".

I don't know if books or pictures will hone in the concept that dark complexioned women of African descent are beautiful to these men, they are a lost cause at 9th grade. They have already have found what physcially attracts them sexually and it is not women with Afrikan-centered features.

Maybe if you do a series of 2-3 week lectures of slavery and the de-feminization of the African women and then show the movie "Sankofa" they MIGHT get a clue. But I skeerioussly doubt at this time they will find any use to that logic.

But, this is all understandable utamaawazo from Marimba Ani's book, "Yurugu" and doesn't blow me away...

Modern women with dark complexions? Lauryn Hill, maybe; Kelly from Destiny's Child--who knows?

However, there are many women in the past are the epitome of beauty--like in "The Eye of the Beholder"...