She has long hair to be dark skinned

[wanabe]

3 other girl friends and myself were sitting down eating in the mall yesterday. 2 of them have a light-golden brown complexion, while myself and the other girl are about a medium brown. One of the light brown girls, was trying to describe this girl at school...and she said
"You know Tracy...she's a Junior...Education major....from New Jersey...she has long hair, for a dark skinned girl."

My friend and I stopped...and asked her to repeat what she said...and she did! Then the other light skinned chick agreed...trying to justify by saying that the lighter you are..means you have "more white in you" and therefore your hair would be longer than a dark skinned person.

I was sooooo HEATED when I heard, my two FRIENDS say this. I thought that it was the most ignorant statement. I can't believe black people are still saying these sort of things in the year 2001.

To make a long story short..we put them in their place, and they know not to say anything like that ever again.

Has this happened to any of you? How did you handle it?