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It is because of this that the stereotype “The Jezebel” was born. A black woman on the side for the master’s satisfaction, and a white woman to marry and be pictured with. Perhaps it comes from the days of the slave trade, where black women were “bed wenches”. Dark skin, cultural hairstyles, big lips, body shape etc. This is perhaps the most hilarious part about it. It’s up to all of us to correct the harmful stereotype that darker skinned black women are less attractive or less ideal in any way. We see rappers dating white and Hispanic women and at the same time, degrading dark skinned women. They too live with internalised colourism and live with a subconscious desire to “correct” their lineage. We often find that the first people to throw us under the bus are our fellow brothers. I remember white boys talking about their “black girlfriend” only to find out that she was actually unmistakably mixed race.īlack boys are not innocent in this matter either. The “black girl” in media is always racially ambiguous or white passing, even when she’s pictured with black parents. You have to understand that dark-skinned black girls aren’t even allowed to be viewed as attractive black women, let alone attractive women in general.

We have to teach ourselves that we are attractive despite the media and the people around us telling us otherwise. Taught they were inherently unattractive. I’ve watched beautiful dark skinned girls get degraded by people they called their friends. Many black people may remember the #lightskin vs #darkskin “debate”, if I dare to refer to such an atrocious shame on our community with such a polite word as “debate”. We are not the standard of beauty, in fact, we’re told we’re ugly This is what it’s like to be a dark skinned girl in the UK. But first, you have to recognise the signs. You can help, you can stop these harmful stereotypes being furthered. The three biggest stereotypes of the black woman: “The Jezebel”, “The Sapphire” and the “Mammy”. The demonisation, fetishisation, objectification, the illusion of superior strength. It’s like none of you were even paying attention in “Get Out”. You think that we are other, that we are criminals or we are superhuman. That’s why black women in need are being left to die.

The darker our skin, the more masculine you are perceived to be, the more dangerous and aggressive you are perceived to be. Because the truth is, the black woman is the most disrespected, unprotected and neglected person in the world.

He would have found the same thing – we’re not exempt. Maybe Malcolm X should have taken a visit to the UK. The most neglected woman in America is the black woman”. The most un-protected person in America is the black woman. Malcolm X once said: “The most disrespected woman in America is the black woman. Being black in the western world is struggle in and of itself.