Comments on: The skin game in music (an interesting conversation with my wife) http://www.blackinformant.com/uncategorized/the-skin-game-in-music-an-interesting-conversation-with-my-wife Engaging the culture by challenging the status quo Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: JerseyBred http://www.blackinformant.com/uncategorized/the-skin-game-in-music-an-interesting-conversation-with-my-wife/comment-page-1#comment-5370 JerseyBred Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:07:08 +0000 http://blackinformant.com/2007/11/27/the-skin-game-in-music-an-interesting-conversation-with-my-wife/#comment-5370 I agree with A - D. A lot of marketing ppl pay attention to the preferences of a demographic that they're focusing on. & I still believe that Black ppl latch on to Euro standards of beauty. We're very much color-struck as a people as we are also racially obsessed as a society. I think we as Black ppl need to be more honest about how many of us have limited scopes of beauty. Beauty is subjective. Yes, I understand. But scrutinizing the hell out of someone because of skin color and facial features is ridiculous. We're very quick to cry "racism" when White people put down our physical attributes. Yet we're hesitant to address another Black person who isn't doing anything short of his/her White counterpart. I agree with A – D. A lot of marketing ppl pay attention to the preferences of a demographic that they’re focusing on. & I still believe that Black ppl latch on to Euro standards of beauty. We’re very much color-struck as a people as we are also racially obsessed as a society.

I think we as Black ppl need to be more honest about how many of us have limited scopes of beauty. Beauty is subjective. Yes, I understand. But scrutinizing the hell out of someone because of skin color and facial features is ridiculous.

We’re very quick to cry “racism” when White people put down our physical attributes. Yet we’re hesitant to address another Black person who isn’t doing anything short of his/her White counterpart.

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