MY Black IS Beautiful

[Marilyn]

We have had many many threads on here about the diversity of shades in our race. Anywhere from very fair to ebony. There is a movement that celebrates all of our shades. Here is the link to it for your information. I saw this featured on ET this evening.

http://www.myblackisbeautiful.com/

[SistahD]

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M - Years ago when Richard Pryor had his own TV show... one of the more serious segments he produced was a tribute to the diferent shades of black women - very nicely done!

[Marilyn]

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Hi Sis....I was looking at this thing two ways. This campaign is pure genius, and whoever came up with it at Proctor and Gamble is a smart cookie.

Now as you know, DOVE,Unilever , has a VERY successful campaign going that targets self esteem in all women called "real Beauty".

Though the premise of the campaign, My Black is Beautiful, and highlighting diversity of skin color within the Black race and celebrating such, is wonderful, I also suspect that this is P&G's inspired answer to the Dove campaign.... all good still though.

[jah_yout]

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primitive really...

real progress will be when humans are no longer mesmerized by the fact that humans come in different skin shades and colors...

apparently that day is far far away from our primitive outlooks

[Stormmey]

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Miss M, there is a book Different shades of Black.....nice read by Sandra L. Pinkney really nice read.

[Marilyn]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">primitive really...

real progress will be when humans are no longer mesmerized by the fact that humans come in different skin shades and colors...

apparently that day is far far away from our primitive outlooks </div></div>Don't know when that might be sweetie

[Marilyn]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Stormmey1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Miss M, there is a book Different shades of Black.....nice read by Sandra L. Pinkney really nice read. </div></div>Sounds like a good read for the beach.

[jah_yout]

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<span style="font-size: 11pt">Then there would have been the added disadvantage of the white complexion. It is not an unbearably unpleasant complexion when it keeps to itself, but when it comes into competition with masses of brown and black the fact is betrayed that it is endurable only because we are used to it. <span style="font-weight: bold">[size:14pt]Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful</span></span>, <span style="font-size: 11pt">but a beautiful white skin is rare. How rare, one may learn by walking down a street in Paris, New York, or London on a week-day particularly an unfashionable street - and keeping count of the satisfactory complexions encountered in the course of a mile. Where dark complexions are massed, they make the whites look bleached-out, unwholesome, and sometimes frankly ghastly. I could notice this as a boy, down South in the slavery days before the war. The splendid black satin skin of the South African Zulus of Durban seemed to me to come very close to perfection. I can see those Zulus yet - 'ricksha athletes waiting in front of the hotel for custom; handsome and intensely black creatures, moderately clothed in loose summer stuffs whose snowy whiteness made the black all the blacker by contrast. Keeping that group in my mind, I can compare those complexions with the white ones which are streaming past this London window now:</span>

----Mark Twain