What’s wrong with the world when a child thinks a doll with the same skin tone as her is bad because of its color?
This question comes to mind after watching the YouTube sensation “A Girl Like Me,” where young black girls are asked to pick out which doll is bad: the black one or the white one. Girls in the video also talk about how they’re led to feel like their skin is too dark and their natural hair is ugly.
Guilt sets in early and often while viewing the film. No child should ever have to feel like a failure for being herself.
So, what is wrong with this world then, since some obviously feel alienated by their own skin?
It seems their alienation is a byproduct of competition. Within competition, there needs to be losers to have winners.
In a world of competition, everyone is taught to judge from the start. People are looked at as being too dark, too light, too skinny or too fat. This is especially apparent during adolescence when everyone feels awkward and thinks they’re alone in that feeling.
Maybe if everyone were taught to work together from the start people would stand in front of the mirror thinking, “Did I help someone today,” instead of “Gosh, I’m pale.”
Then the beautiful kids in the video might feel happy that they helped society reflect on its vices.
Instead of CNN being littered with talk about losers in the last episode of “American Idol,” they could find some time to talk about the ongoing slaughter in
On NPR’s “All Things Considered” today, Natalie Edwards, a reporter for
Edwards considered prostitution when she found out how much money she would make when she graduated college with a journalism degree.
The question comes flying back. What’s wrong with the world when a college student would drop out to be a hooker?
There isn’t a definitive answer to these problems, but striving for unity would be a nice start.
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