Do you think dark girls will be mainstream

Veemack wrote:

First I will say that many black women do not embrace their own darker skinned sisters, but yet they are critical of "others".
Just let your favorite celebrity marry a darker skinned or even brown
skin woman and you all take to the forums and call her "basic" smh. So
start loving your own darker skin and the world will take
notice. The same way whites put having blonde hair and blue eyes on a
pedestal, black folks could do the same, so many of us have our own
prejudices against dark skin women. Many black women are delusional
about their own complexion. For example I spent many years working as a
professional make up artist, I learned early on that I could not allow
my black clients to see the shade of foundation I was putting on them,
because to often we got comments such as, "I am not that darK!" or "That is to dark".
So I made sure to hold my custom blending palette in a position that
they could not see the foundation until after it was applied ......Kelly
Rowland is not more successful due to the fact that she is not that
talented, she is a back up singer, point blank. She is the Mary Wilson
of this day. Her voice is very average, she is pretty but she
has no other "it" factor to be a huge star......Sad that some feel
Brandy is not huge, because she is. She has won awards, one of the few
young black girls to have her own sitcom and after all these years in
the industry, black and white people still know her by her first name.
She is a big star by many standards.....You all fuss about Beyonce and
Rhi, but regardless of their skin tone these two ladies are talented and
have a "wow" factor, they deserve their status. Say what you want about
Rhi but from Jay Z to LA Reid they have said she was a star from the
moment she walked into the office, she just had it.........For the
entertainment industry I consider anyone my complexion and darker to be
dark skinned. We have had plenty of singing stars who are darker skinned
and mainstream and many actresses who are darker skinned and
mainstream. And yes Diana Ross is considered darker skinned by industry
standards, but she has the "it" factor and she shines on screen. Motown
had plenty of dark skinned singers who were huge........ Jodi Watley,
Anita Baker were huge in their time, both a darker brown. Aretha
Franklin is dark brown she still gets respect today! Actually most of
the singers were brown skin in between. Whitney looks brown skin on
camera but irl she was much lighter. That is another point, you have to
know how to use correct lighting for black folks on film to get a true
complexion. You will be surprised how much lighter some of them are in
person..... Oprah always praises her light people because she says they
do such a good job on her, by industry standards she is darker
brown.....So it is not about white features are skin tone, it does come
down to talent that will keep you in the limelight and push you towards
superstar success. Beyonce is just talented, there has not been an artists male or
female that can give a performance they way she can in the past 10
years, whether her complexion is light or dark, she would of been
successful.....Gabby Union and Aisha Taylor both constantly praised by
the industry for their beauty, both of these ladies are dark skin to me.
You do not have to be blue black to be dark skin. I consider myself
dark skin.....So let us start embracing and praising our darker skinned
big nose sisters more then maybe we can point a finger at "others". Look at how many of you are critical of Rhi Rhi's nose, like what is the deal with that? Why do you have an issue with her nose? You have issues with it but expect "others" to not have an issue with it? Come on black women.

standing ovation! I think it really comes down to us as black women making a change as you said. No matter how many ls ds threads pop up on this forum, we need to take responsibility for changing our own prejudices. We need to change our hearts, minds and language when we talk about skin tone and hair texture. Younger people learn from what we say and do!