re: #9 HappyWarrior

What’s really sad is in a lot of cultures that having dark skin is seen negatively while having lighter is seen positively. It shouldn’t matter either way.

Even white people getting tan in the sun was seen as something that only peasants working out in the fields did. Upper class women always wrapped themselves carefully before going out in the sun.

Ironically, the “tan look” was introduced by Coco Chanel in the 1920’s because of the popularity of Josephine Baker, a Black entertainer.