*stands on pedestal*
you don't get it.
you don't get what it feels like to constantly be dehumanized because of the color of your skin.
you don't get what it feels like to hear "I don't date black girls" -- or furthermore, "I don't date dark skinned back girls." For what reason, might I add?
you don't get it.
you don't get how it feels to hear and watch people fetishize black women as if they were some sort of foreign object, or that being intimately involved with them in any way can be categorized as some rare instance they're willing to endure if it means they'll get some cool points from their bros.
gross.
but
you don't get it.
you don't get what it feels like to be so insecure about your skin tone that you can't even muster up the courage to talk to that person because you're afraid that they don't like dark skinned black girls.
you don't get it how physically, mentally, and emotionally taxing it is to be denied opportunities because of your skin color - first and foremost - as well as... you guessed it... the tone of your skin.
you don't get what it feels like to constantly watch dark skinned females being viewed through the eyes of modern day media as the single and ghetto best friend/dead beat mother, strung out on some sort of addiction/failing single parent/etc, while the lighter skinned females are praised and highly favored. Y'all are pretty. But so are we.
you don't get it.
you.
don't.
get.
it.
you don't get what it feels like to have to endure the emotional and mental issues that young adults as a whole go through while growing up, yet having to bottle it all up to adhere to the ridiculous stereotype that black kids can't be depressed.
*you really don't get how annoyed we are when someone just puts their hand in our hair without asking. that's rude and if you think otherwise then, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have to explain why invading someone's personal space so you can touch them like a foreign object is just wrong. *
you don't get it.
you don't get it when we resonate with the line "You have to work twice as hard to get half of what everyone else has."
If you think this is merely a complaint, then you don't get it.
If you think that we're overreacting, then you really don't get it.
If you think this is just a phase...please.
So on behalf of black women everywhere, especially dark skinned women, we appreciate what you may think are your sentiments when you say things like "you just have to be confident" and "you just have to put yourself out there," but to be frank... we appreciate it more when you just don't say anything.
*steps off pedestal*
