RUNNING HEAD: EQUITY ISSUES

Shorter University

Rachelle Bell

Dr. Janet Grier

Light-Skin Women v Dark-Skin Women

In today world some people will only hired women who is light-skinned. Why? They want someone who is pretty and can bring more people to the company. The company thinks women who is light-skinned are pretty. A light-skinned woman have nice long hair, make-up is flawless, nails is well kept, clothes are the latest business suits. The woman might not have all of the qualifications but she will learn the ropes of the business. So they hired her and to top if off her salary is the highest and comes with a nice package. In back in the bosses mind he hopes that she can catch on quick, but he will show her off to all his business partners. Now will a dark-skinned woman, who have all the qualifications they will not hired her, because the company does not see her pretty enough. They see a dark-skinned woman as greasy, nappy hair, and ghetto, and that’s to get to the point. This beautiful lady that the company will not hired, will have been a great asset to the company. The lady would have given 110% of her time, and even had ideas on how to make the company grow, she wouldn’t be concern about when is pay day and how long is her lunch so she could go the nail shop. Some women have a hard time dating, because some men will not date a woman who is dark-skinned. I think some men just want a pretty girl on his arm. They don’t even care about her just show her a good time. Some of these women might have low self esteem and really don’t care how the man treats her just as long he keep her happy with all the gifts. If a man feels really feels this way with the woman he will not introduce her to his family, closet friends, nor will he try to get to know her. But yet he stills dates this woman, and don’t care. Now if a dark-skinned woman comes his way he will call her names, and might tell her good back to African to her people. Just because she is dark-skinned doesn’t mean she is from African. This woman thinks highly about herself and will not let anyone mistreat her. The dark-skinned woman have a job and lives by herself, doesn’t depend on anyone to support her. She will not settle for any man. There are to many people today who think that light-skinned women are smart and dark-skinned women are dumb. A few years ago Tyra Banks did a show about skin color. Some women went to bleaching their skinned, because they though that they was ugly. When Tyra ask them how long they have been bleaching their skin, they said their whole life. One lady said that her mother told her that she could not go outside and play, because she will get darker and she will not find a husband being that black. So the lady was told this her whole life and she thought that she was ugly. One lady had kids and they came out dark and she started bleaching their skin and measuring the color of their skin and the time went on, just to see if they was getting lighter. She said that she didn’t want dark children and will contiune to bleach their skin. As parents we teach our kids about skin color. Kids don’t know nothing about color , if we stop judging someone on skin colored our kids will have a better look on life. I decided to use this topic because in school I had to deal with skin colored. Some teachers will let me do certain things because I was not the dark student in the class. I was even told from my grandmother that don’t ever date a dark-skinned man, always date a light-skinned man. I really believe that until when day in high school that my grandmother was wrong. It took me a long time to over come that, and I did fall in love with someone who very so much darker than me. My saying is you can not control who you fall in love with.