Colorstruck Ideas
Greetings fellow greekchatters!!
I have a situation and would like some help on. As many of you may know I am a high school teacher specifically ninth grade social studies. Today I was talking with my students about Africa and their stereotypes of the continent, etc. At any rate the topic of color came up and I had three young black males tell me that they could not think of one attractive dark skinned woman! One even told me he would rather date an ugly light skinned woman with long hair than a beautiful dark skinned woman with an afro. I was floored, I left my class and marched them down to the library and my intentions were to assign them some type of research on black women but we began discussing this topic with three of my black female co-workers who were equally disturbed and the bell rang. I understand we all have prefrences and in no way am I trying to dictate to them what they like, however they truly were looking at me like I was crazy at the notion that a dark complected woman could be beautiful. It doesn't help that I am light with long hair, they just think I am "tripping", one boy in particular is constatly referring to how dark skinned woman are not attractive. Any ideas on what I can assign them or suggest they do in order to expand their horizons? I don't want to punish them just educate them.
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