A Girl Like Me

as a child, I recall wanting hair like the black girls in my class, the beads the braids, the styles!!! All I had was a plain dumb ponytail. When I was about 10, I thought,darker brown the skin, the more powerful the person, or stronger. Its funny how as a child you come to certain conclusions. Once a very light skinned girl told me I wasnt allowed to play w/her & her black barbies Oh, I was hurt &offended I threw all my white barbies away because of her...Children are so impressionable.

@ Miss Ziegler, I often wonder the same thing @ are we as black people cursed...But then I contemplate on how The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade remains one of the worse institutions in history, as the after effects still remain to date. Why are some able to heal and get beyond what was done to us and our ancestors and others not? I pray God that we are able to heal as a race and be good to ourselves the way so many other races are.

Why am I not surprised? Sometimes I tend to think that the black race has been cursed in the far past or something. What went wrong with our people? I am not african american but I am african and what pains me the most while watching this documentary is that some Africans are way more brainwashed than some african americans. We have the same issues in the African community, if not worse. It i disgusting!

This was a great documentary, but I wish they wouldn't just focus on African Americans. I feel like black girls from the Caribbean (like myself) always get ignored in things like this.

I feel exactly the same way!!!! I am Jamaican.

THANK YOU.there was one yter that had a doc that mainly interviewed caribbeans ( b/c that's who was around her) someone commented and said "umm how about you interview americans who actually know about this stuff" or something like that. ugh

in india place close to where i come from ..... we have both dark and light skin in our families .... now i have liked girls of both types and i dont see a different ...... clearly skin is not the only proof of a good mate .... and a partner for life ....now dont u think .....

i just watched a docu on the racism in the Inian Culture. As a white American this was eyeopening. My boss is Indian and clearly has race issues w/in his own culture that I wish I understood..

The part with the children was crushing, how sad that at such a young age institutionalized racism was already affecting their views on the world.