ON BEAUTY Archives - The Race Card Project

You’re pretty for a Black girl.

September 21, 2015March 4, 2022 CA, compliment, different, Los Angeles, Maya Segirah, ON BEAUTY, qualifier, you're pretty for a

Maya Segirah,
Los Angeles, CA.

As if the qualifier, somehow, makes me different from the rest, which are by implication inferior, and therefore I’m better? I should be pleased with this? What makes people think THIS is a compliment? And why are they invariably annoyed when I point out that this is not a compliment?

Black is beautiful in ALL shades.

May 16, 2014June 20, 2014 Adelphi, beautiful, Black, dark, Kristen Stephens, light, MD, ON BEAUTY, ON DECK, shades, skin color

Kristen Stephens
Adelphi, MD

My skin is special, not because I am light but because it is mine. Love the skin you are in!

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