I had a discussion with High School students yesterday regarding how they see themselves as young, black women. It was surprising to me that after all of these years, they are still dealing with the same color issues as I dealt with almost twenty years ago. They talked about how blacks still judge who is 'better' or 'prettier' by their shade or their hair texture.
I informed them that they should be proud of how God made them, and not try to be anything else than what they are. But the question comes in . . . how to undo the brainwashing? I can tell them that they are beautiful, no matter their shade of brown or length of hair. What if they go home to someone who reinforces their negative beliefs that they have of themselves? Where did it start, and how does it end?
MY MESSAGE TO BLACK WOMEN: You are unique and beautiful. Please stop trying to conform to societal pressures to be something that you are not. God doesn't make mistakes.
What are your thoughts?
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