"A Girl Like Me"

I thought this youtube video was very sad. There is an ideal image that the media sets for black women. The "lighter they are the more beautiful." Having relaxed hair is seen as more beautiful than naturally beautiful hair. It is a sad and distorted ideal that needs to be changed. It was disturbing to see that statistics have not changed since the study conducted in the Brown vs. Board of Education trial. It was shocking to see when the same study was conducted again 15 out of the 21 children preferred the white doll over the black. It says a lot when childrens views are so tragically distorted. Seeing the young black girl prefer the white doll because she believed it was good, and the black doll was bad because of its color was heartbreaking. When she was asked which doll looked like her you could see the sadness in her eye.