black” and it goes for both men and women. This is how the thought of black as backward, On the other hand some other men do not follow any preconceived notions of color, for them a woman is not only her color she is more than the her skin color and one needs to see the character of the person when it comes to choosing a partner. Women themselves have come to believe that their black skin makes them unattractive, less lovable, less favourite among people and they are not good as a person. Many women in the documentary recalls all the methods they have tried from bleaching to scrubbing to lighten their skin tone, while some of them wished to wake up a skin shade …show more content…
“A recent study founds that 7 in 10 girls between ages of eight and seventeen feel that they are not good enough or do not measure up in their appearance” (documentary). “seventy five percent of girls with low self esteem report engaging in activities such as eating disorders, cutting, drug use and self loathing” (documentary). It is an accepted fact that raising a black boy is different than raising a black girl, black women do not want their daughters to be black because they are aware of the discrimination prevalent in the society, the prejudiced treatment is visible to them, they can see how people treat black skinned girls out in public and they don’t want their daughters to go through the same which they experienced themselves while growing up. This color discrimination spiritually affects them especially kids, who start to devalue themselves from small age, hating their parents for passing on to them their black skin color, being teased by other kids who name