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*Cindy is on the phone with her best friend*

*When her baby sister, Roxy, begins being nosy and listening through the door*

*On the phone* I might get that new cream Eve at school is using.

But doesn't that make your skin lighter?

Yes, but it'll make me pretty. Along with my new straight hair!

But you're beautiful with your own skin and own hair.

Then why do we see everywhere that dark skin and curly hair isn't beautiful?

Everywhere?

When we read "The Bluest Eye" in English, it was a whole book about a black women who didn't love herself.

When watched "School Daze", they talked about "nappy headed jigaboos"

(Robinson 359)

Okay, but remember those girls from the survey we studied? Compared to white standards of beauty, "white women rated themselves less attractive than black women."

(Makkar, Jalmeen K., and Michael J. Strube)

So what? Those black women probably did the same thing I'm doing.