I will be the first to admit, i've got issues, and pretty high on my list of issues is the pain i feel from men, especially black men, who will trample over a regular brown skin woman like myself, to get to the light skin, curly or long hair woman with mixed ethnicity features. When i say trample, i mean that litterally. I have always had friends that fit the light skinned, mixed ethnicity description, clearly, they can't help, nor should they be blamed, for their genetic inheritence, but i have been out with these women and had guys practically ask me to hold their coats, so they could talk to my friend. Really, it's just painful to have it constantly reinforced how beautiful you aren't in the eyes of people that you most want to see you as beautiful. As a potential friend, not just a work horse. I can tell myself i'm beautiful all i want, but if everything outside of my skull says something else, how is that message reinforced?
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