A topic that is very dear to me and strikes me is African-Americans not embracing their self as a whole. Ever since the early days of slavery, many people have felt that their skin color is ugly. Time after time after time, white people perception of superiority and desecration of the Africans skin color has made for people to dismiss themselves as beautiful. When something is black, it is dirty and has negative connotation and for white people to call us that over four centuries, we start to believe it.
In the times of slavery the slave master being in control would often have relationships with his female slaves due to the curvier features over white women. As a result mulatto children were born. A prime and famous example of this is Thomas Jefferson’s affair with Sally Hemming. Jefferson fathered children by both his wife and Hemming. The term mulatto was derived in the 16th from Spain (www.reference.com). Native Americans and blacks often mated together and created blacks......

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Title: Light Skin Vs. Dark Skin
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