Colorstruck Ideas

[BlueReign]

Originally posted by The Original Ape
in time.
These are young brothas may be victims of naive peer pressure, and influenced by their sisters, mothers, aunts, and grandmothers' efforts to "get ready" before they go to church, or clubbin'. They watch yall put on all that make-up, get those perms, and do whatever else yall do to get yall stuff right before yall go to the mall or wherever yall rollin' to. Yall work so hardSO HARD to look like somethin' YALL think is pretty; and just look at each thing you do to achieve that. ...and yall wonder why the little bruhs are stuck on light-skinned, long-haired chicks?

OA, you are so wrong to say this! What's wrong with perming my hair and wearing my make-up? This has nothing to do with the skin color issue. I am not light-skinned nor dark-skinned but I heard the color-struck comments growing up. I am a beautiful shade of brown but grew up hearing comments about my light-skinned sister. For that reason I chose to date and eventually married a dark-skinned man. My children still came out light.

What's wrong with these teens today choosing light over dark?? They are just not being raised right. I remember my son when he was 4 watching the actress Michael Michelle (currently on the cover of Ebony) and saying that she was beautiful. I stopped him right there and told him that light skinned-long hair is not the only standard of beauty. LOOK AT ME, I'm beautiful!

As a middle-schooler he is still looking at light-skinned girls with long straight hair! I'm about to beat it out of him!! I may be wrong but I don't want him to think that someone who looks like his Momma is "less than".

Not only are these children not being shown much in the area of dark beauty, we have had an invasion of light-skinned, long haired girls in the media. I have had enough of Beyonce and all that hair aint even hers! No, they are not going to read books. We need a parade of black beauty!! WE DON'T SEE ENOUGH OF THE LAURYN HILLS! She's a beautiful, dark skinned sister with the African facial features. Forgive me for ranting. I'm still stuck in the 70's. We need another "Black is Beautiful" Movement!!