Finding white skin attractive isn’t inherently racist on its own (it used be valued because it indicated that a person didn’t have to work outdoors because they were wealthy), but rarely will you find preference for lighter skin in a vacuum. I am not white, by the way, and my background is from two colonial cultures — South American and Filipino — in which fair skin is valued over brown skin. I don’t consider that valuing just a cultural preference with no underlying racism. It absolutely is not — it is a reflection of the aesthetic of the colonizers being imposed upon the colonized. Skin lightening is an external manifestation of the internalized belief — one that is almost sublimated now — that whiteness is better than brownness because white people are better than brown ones.
— Unloveable - Brown!
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