As Africian Americans we still have a lot of issues to deal with within our communities. Skin color being one. It is still an issue. When I was growing up there was one tv show that had a Black woman it was "Julia",there were no black dolls or pictures or anything in magazines except Jet and Ebony that showed Black people.
In my family we run the gamet of shades of black from light to dark. How we view others begans at home, I was always empowered by my mother to feel beautiful, and proud of myself as a black person. I believe the sting of slavery has effected/affected our race in the area of skin color horribily, cause it caused division among us then and still does today.
With all the advertisements showing us, we are or at least some who remember what it use to be like find some joy in seeing reflections of themselves, regardless of the shade.
It's a problem, we still have people crossing the color line everyday, because they are treated so bad by some of us because they are light.
I will end on that because there are so many thoughts going through my head I could probably write a short book
[This message has been edited by MaNessa (edited May 08, 2001).]
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