Colourism In Dark Girls

Colourism also impacts the relationships between the male and female within the community. Particularly, females suffer from their own hamartia of low self-esteem due to the allusions of beauty and what is required of and from them in order to be ‘loved’ or ‘wanted’ by a man. On the documentary “Dark Girls”, studies show that 41.9% of black women in America have never been married while only 20.7% of white women have never been married. This statistic shows that African American women are the least coupled group in the United States. On “Dark Girls”, there is a scene in the documentary where men discuss their outlook on both light skin and dark skin women. Frequently during this scene, the men discuss how they have more of an attraction to …show more content…
Fortunately, minor solutions to colourism are being made in society. Women who are very pale want to be tanner because they feel more empowered when darker while others feel that many of the races with different shades are beautiful. This goes to show that our beauty is really our state of mind. Colourism cannot be deleted from the mind of millions if people do not make the effort to relief those images of beautification and the opinions of brainwashed and oblivious people who do not recognize their own potential. The world has a whole cannot get pass colourism if we contribute to what these images of beautification offer. In “Colourism: Why even black people have a problem with dark skin” by Elizabeth Pears, she states “According to the World Health Organization (WHO) 77 percent of Nigerian women use them (lightning agents)”. We cannot believe that ‘required beautification will get us to wealth and a higher social status. We cannot believe the images that want to conceal our real identity. The images of beautification were only created because the different ethnicities of society pose a threat. That threat is the fact that these ethnicities are so different and unique that civilization will run to them rather than have this narrow minded thought of wanting to live the European life. India Arie wrote a song called “I Am Not My Hair” in 2005. One of her lyrics is “I am not your expectations”. The lyric alone goes into depth of how there are many misconceptions of the beauty, integrity, and creativity of all ethnicities, races, and cultures. Colourism continues to disintegrate as we all experience a self-realization of who we are as people and love ourselves. Unfortunately, “The ugly truth is while racism-whether institutional, structural or ingrained-and inequality persists, so will colourism” (Pears Newstateman.com). Colourism, in fact,