marc twain
…Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare. How rare, one may learn by walking down a street in Paris, New York or London on a weekday — particularly an unfashionable street — and keeping count of the satisfactory complexions encountered in the course of a mile. Where dark complexions are massed, they make whites looked bleached out, unwholesome, and sometimes frankly ghastly. I could notice this as a boy, down South in the slavery days before the war. The splendid black satin skin of the South African Zulus of Durban seemed to me very close to perfection. I can see those Zulus yet…. handsome and intensely black creatures, moderately clothes in loose summer stuffs whose snowy whiteness made the black all the blacker by contrast. Keeping that group in my mind, I can compare those complexions with the white ones which are streaming past this London window… I think there is no sort of chance for the average white complexion against that rich perfect tint.
SKIN DEEP by: Mark Twain
this is amazing.
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…counter-racism is racist.
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hmmm…I think it’s praise.
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cant decide if its actual praise…or exoticizing. jury
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