Whitewashing affects Black Culture in a multitude of ways. Many children of color are not sufficiently shown their own culture’s ideal beauty compared to the regularly publicized white ideal beauty. Children of color who are saturated with white ideal beauty standards on billboards and television may not feel comfortable in their own skin and grow up feeling like they are not beautiful. These youths may wish for lighter skin and straight hair like the white models on billboards. There is a lack of role models for minorities to sufficiently broadcast their own culture. Minority children might feel as though their own distinct culture is underrepresented and left out in the media. Having one’s own history and culture not shown is limiting for
