Let's Talk About Minority Fetishization
(10/13/16 9:47am)
This was not the first time that a white boy had said a version of, “You’re pretty for a black girl,” as if that was supposed to turn me on. These sorts of statements imply a larger issue in the belief that black women are not as pretty as women of other races. There are beautiful people in every race and to think otherwise is, yes, racist, i.e. feeding into the system of power relations that places one race over another. This faulty logic is rooted in a long–standing history of colonialism and perpetuated by representations, or lack thereof, in all media forms in our culture.