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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have two kids, a boy and a girl. My dd is lighter and strikingly beautiful. People cannot help themselves. And my son is stung by it. Because my children are (part) black, I continue to them that they are beautiful because society will be hard on them as adults. I maintain that not talking about looks is white privilege.[/quote] All girls feel bad about their looks at some point, regardless of race. (Maybe boys do too, I don't know.) White girls may not get the same messages in the same context as black girls, but it is the rare white girl who doesn't "know" by the age of 9 or 10 that blond hair and blue eyes are "better," that skinnier is "better," that taller but not too tall is "better," that everyone measures them by how pretty they are. And that the standard of prettiness is blond hair, blue eyes, and slenderness.[/quote]
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