You're pretty for a Dark-Skinned Girl

Don't tell her she's pretty for a dark skin girl like dark skin girls aren't beautiful. The prejudice toward dark-skinned women is within our own community. That's lowering the self-esteem level of girls. It's pretty clear that's it's a preference for lighter skin complexion in the media. Little girls don't have many positive role models to look up to. On Oprah's Next Chapter: African-American Women in Hollywood the actresses talk the challenges they face in the entertainment industry. I can image it's hard for them because of having a darker skin tone. I I admire the fact that they didn't believe a victim to society and bleach their skin tone like other celebrities in the entertainment business. In the documentary "Dark Girls" by Bill Dukes opens up the conversation around colourism.  To some people it's a new version of the 1940s doll experiment by Kenneth and Mamie Clark. The experiment showed a clear preference for the white doll and exposed the self-hatred among African American children. A shameful discrimination in our own community basis on skin color. "Who taught you to hate the color of your skin? Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet? Who taught you to hate your own kind?" - Malcolm X .