You’re pretty for a Black girl.

me1Maya 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?


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