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Originally Posted by StealthMode
SN: I've been meaning to see "Dark Girls" for awhile now. I tried to see it a showing at a conference but it was sold out both nights. However, I could do without the "Darker is better" and "I hope my children are dark like pharaohs and queens because you can't look like royalty being light as hell" comments. Um we all descended from the same royalty so back up off my lite brite. But that's for another thread entirely.
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It is a really good, but tremendously sad, documentary. It makes me think of things from my childhood and things from my adulthood.
The documentary is not about "darker is better"
(but of course humans tend to operate on extremes and have a difficult time balancing. Of course, people will think it makes sense to combat "black is ugly" with "black is beautiful" and eventually "black is the ONLY beautiful thing."). The documentary is about why most African-Americans have a social-psychological struggle with this. One girl said she used to come home and wash her skin to get the "black off." She used to hate her father because she has his skin complexion. A woman said she used to beg her mother to put bleach in the bath tub so she could whiten her skin everyday. Unfortunately, there are people around the world who bleach their skin, including Reggae artist Vybz Kartel and Sammy Sosa.
This documentary also speaks to why various races, ethnicities, and cultures around the world have struggled with issues of skin complexion, hair texture, and body features. Some European ethnicities have also struggled with this.
ETA: StealthMode, they just showed the part of the documentary in which two Black men said they preferred darker Black women. One man said he wants his children to be darker like pharoahs and queens. Then he said "I'm being real ignorant right now" so he knew he was talking crazy. LOL.
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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
Have you read Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential"?!
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Random: I love Bourdain's CNN show.
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