Split between heartbreak and rage

[sylvar]

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This video, "A Girl Like Me", is probably only news to white people. But I wish everyone would watch it (it's a little over 7 minutes).

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[segnbora.livejournal.com]

For a deeper look, I recommend Marita Golden's book Don't Play in the Sun, which I read a few years ago. The thing that creeped me out the most is that apparently even women in Africa have been known to use the skin-bleaching stuff. Also, Toni Morrison's 1970 novel The Bluest Eye gets its title from a little black girl's wish to be blonde and blue-eyed.