05-15-2006, 08:33 PM
Please read Frantz Fanon's treatise Black Skin, White Masks, in case you have not already.
IMO, desiring whiteness has to be viewed through power and privileges attributed to "whiteness". There are aspects (perhaps) with the idea/notion of beauty or personal predilections, but to each unto his own <!--emo&
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IMO, desiring whiteness has to be viewed through power and privileges attributed to "whiteness". There are aspects (perhaps) with the idea/notion of beauty or personal predilections, but to each unto his own <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> when it comes to the latter aspects.