50 Claps! I enjoyed your words. We are the ones who give ingrates the power to make us feel inferior, and so it is time to take the power back. If we have to say affirmations daily to learn to love the skin and textures we are in, then that's what we shall do.

Women who are not darkskin, have the easy ability of just Receiving compliments. Darker toned women have to have divine connections and spirituality to pull down the greatness within the soul. They have to build themselves up. This is why SOME lighter women do tend be more upset IF a darker toned woman is chosen over her. Lighter women are not used to not being chosen based on skin alone. At the end of the day, my self esteem is not dependent on a man.