Dark Girls Documentary review

I have just finished watching the doc and as a black girl in the uk I just felt like it was a pity party like poor me. I don't think this documentary did anything and will change anything. Thinking that it was made years ago. I think it could have been better but the subject hasn't been touched on before but it was decent attempt.

I live in the uk and for me I would say that growing up I didn't experience the light/dark situation. Maybe it was because at school there was a diverse group of people and race was never really a big thing. I loved my skin and I was happy to be black and I didn't look at anyone differently.

When I went to university though I lived with two light-skinned girls and one of them she went on and on about being light-skinned and somehow the topic of skin colour always came about and to me it didn't matter because I don't judge someone because of their skin but if their nice or nasty. But to her skin/looks were her best feature and I thought that was sad.

Back to the documentary. They talked about being called ugly and black women have the highest low self-esteem and it makes me sad. They talked about men on women and a lot of men said they wouldn't date a dark skinned girl and some said they like dark skinned girls and so on. Then women on men and how they were treated differently by other races and white guys and all that.

Then the media, I think rappers, singers, sports stars if you look at most of the black men they will either have a white blond hair with blue eyes girl or a light-skinned girl and if I had grown up admiring all these stars and they don't even like what I look like I might hated myself but to me, I don't care about a rapper I am never going to meet and you have to love yourself.

God made you the way you are and we all have two choices one is to cry and throw a pity party and say poor me I am dark and everyone hates my skin. Chris brown isn't dating any dark skinned girlss...ohmygosh, im dying....

ORRR, you can accept yourself and do you, be coinfedent in your skin and rock it. I think the most attractive thing in anyone is confidence. If you think....no if you KNOW that you are beautiful and you act like it then who gives an F what anyone else thinks. Trust me if you act and dress like you are the Shizz then everyone else around is going to think so too.

I want to offer up an example, Mercy Johnson.

She is a Nigerian actress who as some might say is dark skinned, ohmygoshh BUTTT, the confidence that this woman radiants is unbelievable that sometimes she even puts Beyoncé to shame (and I love Beyoncé).

She is an amazing actress, married to a prince and just had her first child, I don't think she's crying poor me right now....It's just about loving yourself.