[BenLurkin]

An actual conservative post. Thank you. It was looking like this thread was going to be dominated by ignorant bigotry.

[leaning conservative]

That was one of the whiniest, most pitiful, poor poor me things I have read in awhile. Seriously, grow up.

[utahagen]

This piece is different than similar ones I have read in that the author seems sincerely wounded in ways that are linked to her being a black girl. Undeniably true are that many black boys/men prefer white girls, and that among black people, historically there has been a caste system that rates lighter skin and whiter features as better than dark skin and black features. In addition, white women generally are much more open to dating black men than white men are to dating black women. I understand how painful it would be to grow up in a world that seems to deem you as less desirable. This author's pain is palpable. The problem is that there is nothing the state or the government can do about it, and people who egg her on with talk of “reparations” are doing her a disservice. Life is unfair; that's just the way it is. She just has to do what people of all races always have done: the best she can with the one and only life she has.