Comments on: Black Woman, Know That You Are Beautiful

By: adeen

adeen — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:33:37 +0000

Black is beautiful! Beautiful black women, don’t listen to society and their narrow minded idea of beauty; blond hair blue eyes, pale skin, big breast, big butt and light skin, big butt and breast and long blond hair for black women. And I wouldn’t buy that magazine at all! Glamour magazine like all magazines except Essence and Jet, idolize White beauty instead of Black beauty. And Blacks aren’t any better either! They still have a Euro centric standard of beauty for their woman, which I think is not fair and wrong! Beautiful black women come in all hues like Tisha Campbell, Clara, Sanaa lathan and Gabrielle Union. And it’s crazy that halle Berry and Beyonce represent Black beauty when they are mixed and there is Black woman who are far more beautiful than those women will ever be! I’m not saying that they aren’t beautiful, they are but they is better. I just think it is sad that we Blacks don’t think we are beautiful and we should ban magazines that exclude and degrade us! And for our brothas, I have a lot to say to them, why do you prefer light skin/mixed and white girls and in fact, any girl that isn’t black? Why is it you seem not to love us anymore? You guys are never there for us anymore or defend us when people of other races call us ugly, etc. You guys are never there for your baby mama”s children or anything. I know some of us have bad attitudes but we just can’t take your crap anymore! I am sick of seeing black guys with these plain janes/ugly white girls walking around! I just don’t get it? Are they prettier than us………well to your eyes? Never mind , unless the world see Black women’s beauty, we as sistas should respect our selves and love ourselves before anyone else and the world does.

By: Peter Vlietstra

Peter Vlietstra — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:52:56 +0000

It is not the colour, but the softness of the skin. That’s just it

By: ybw2010

ybw2010 — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:11:53 +0000

hi Afrobella – thanks so much for sharing – we have made a video here in the UK and we’d love for you to share it with your readers. Its called What makes the black woman beautiful – http://vimeo.com/groups/77217/videos/18799882

Let us know what you think!

By: Kasalina

Kasalina — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:13:16 +0000

agreed, great piece.

By: Nedetti owner of Hair by Nedjetti Salon NYC/NJ

Nedetti owner of Hair by Nedjetti Salon NYC/NJ — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:11:20 +0000

AMAZING article bravo Bella sistahs must understand God did no wrong when HE made us right !!
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Remember when you walk with confidence and embrace YOU, others will pick up on your energy and respect you oppose to challenging you, the power lies within !!!
Let’s break the cycle of the LYE and walk with spiritual gratitude….xo my sistahs

By: Zenzele

Zenzele — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:42:42 +0000

I stopped buying magazines long ago. Fortunately, I’m long past the point of folks making comments about my hair – these days, I get nothing but compliments, and the rest know better than to say anything negative. THANK YOU for writing this article; we all need to stop letting others define our beauty, and we definitely need to challenge those who think we are “less than.”

By: adeenmckenzie-kennedy

adeenmckenzie-kennedy — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:45:14 +0000

i am a middle brown skin tone and i am fifteen.i kind of feel non beautiful because i go to a lily white catholic school where the white girls get the boys.really,what is so attractive about them?Just because society tells them they are pretty doesn’t mean they are.Some of them are pretty but the majority of them aren’t pretty.Really why do I want to look like some pale behind person with stringy hair,and no butt,lips or color in their skin. And they age so quickly!At the end of the day,I know black is beautiful and I don’t listen to the media

By: truth

truth — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 22:03:00 +0000

Inside bueaty is more valuable that outside, remember that and you can never go wrong.

By: flustrated

flustrated — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:20:21 +0000

The Black standard of beauty isn’t much of an improvement over the White standard, coming from a woman stuck between the two. I’m too dark, eyes too brown, hips to wide, tad too heavy to fit the White standard. But at the same time I’m not dark enough, hair’s not thick enough, hips not wide enough and a** not big enough to meet the Black standard either. I thought that Black people were going celebrate black in all its hues. I was wrong. Gotta be a Nicki Minaj to make the cut with BPs or be a Kate Moss to make with WPs. All I see is two standards I’ll never meet.

Thanx for posting, tho.

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