Via Black Girls Rock

Media portrays us as having a cursed complexion. Everything that’s wrong with the world is doubly wrong with the African American woman. The marriage rate may fall for everyone, but for us, the chance of the 2.5 children with the picket fence and a loving husband doesn’t even exist in a fairy tale. Even more recently, Psychology Today attempted to answer the age-old question, “Mirror, Mirror on the wall! Who’s the fairest of them all?” and concluded that our features make us unattractive to say the very least.