Head pt 3

to understand and articulate the issue from multiple points of view, including from the point of view of those who are the recipients or on the receiving end of this oppressive, degrading image that has been created over generations for black people.

We're only going to continue to perpetuate the stereotypes.

I think it's very hypocritical because what's the message you're sending to black girls in particular is that, oh, we aspire to be with non-black women.

I can remember being a ********** wanting to be a model. I didn't see Darcy Grove on purpose of magazine. When I was in high school, my nickname was Grace Jones. And people used to say that to me as an insult because she was dark skinned. But I didn't hear that at first because I love her. I thought she was beautiful. Oh, just the color of her skin. I just loved everything about her.

And eventually I was able to turn that around. But it wasn't easy. It was going to happen overnight. The other part of it is that, you know, there's this issue called structural racism. We've been so far along, every year we hear the word racism, we think of individual racism. But the bigger elephant in the room now is the structural racism.