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Uploaded by on Aug 13, 2006

Color is more than skin deep for young African-American women struggling to define themselves.

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  • WOW! Tha doll scene blew my mind!! My mom told me the other day that I alwayz preferred the white doll. I was never raised racist. I have natural hair, engaged to a white man but I never hated dark skin. I LOVE LOVE darks skin... now. We have to train our kids from jump that we are ALL "nice". We have bad in all races. We still have alot of work to do. That hurt my heart, how slow the girl slid the doll that looked like her. I would have to have a few LONG talks with my baby after that.

  • AW FUCK NO! I am going to raise MY daughter to know and embrace the fact that her kinky hair and skin is BEAUTIFUL. This is sooo sad. Screw all this skin bleaching cream, the ignorant name-calling among our race, and the whole bullshit notion of not wanting to marry a "dark skinned" man. My boyfriend is fine as hell and blacker than my damn shoe and I cannot wait to marry him and have beautiful black babies with him someday. WAKE UP BLACK AMERICA!

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  • Interesting...while African-American girls are wearing their hair natural, the African girls are not. They had weave styles before the Americans. For those who are down on AA women who chooses to wear relaxed hair it is pointless. It is beautiful that we don't have to wear slave plantation hair, if we choose not to. It is also beautiful if natural girls prefer dreads if that is what they choose. Thank God for choices!!!!

  • @sterlingking

    Wont chang anything. Your child is half white. Why would he/she pick their black half when even their own mother didn't?

  • I believe that everyone is beautiful and they should wear their anyway they'd like.

  • @amjera1 they are not foolish, you can't blame them for what society is teaching them.

  • I'm a man & I always searched the stores for a black doll. My daughter might've had a white doll once, but not from me! I'm not racist @ all just feel like a black woman is beautiful! I wanted her to understand that, that white doll is not better than the black doll to me, cause that's not who you are! I wanted my kid to be proud of who she is!

  • Yikes! this is scary stuff.

  • Foolish Kids black is beautiful they are foolish very very foolish

  • Black is b'tiful. Yoou have 2 be prooud of ypur btuful skin. I luv ma black family nd friends how they.r :)

  • I love being a black female

  • i agree with someone on here thats not a question that you would ask a child..."which one is good or bad???" thier children i dont think they normally think of that question when they think of dolls and for them to ask that TO ME was wrong. just ask which would you rather play with....that would have been just fine

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