I always felt as if I wasn't good enough, growing up I remember boys liked girls who had lighter skin.
Whenever my mom would braid my hair, I would asked her when will I have long hair?.
I never liked telling people I was African, because I felt like they would look at me weird.
All these years I didn't realize that this was self hate.
I wasn't happy with my skin color, my hair or my heritage.
I didn't want to accept who I was and I didn't know why.
But now I do, what I saw on TV, magazines and the Internet were girls who didn't look like me.
I saw girls who had pale/light skin and straight long hair and they were either white or mixed.
Black women had to work twice as hard to be represented in the media.
Even though black women naturally have all the features that everyone happens to love.
Black women were put into zoos and forced to stand on platforms for white men to publicly laugh at their butts, but now all these women want to have big butts.
Black women also got teased about their lips being too big as well, but now there's girls who wear lip fillers and over line their lips to have lips like ours.
We get mistreated for having dark skin, yet all these girls wanna have a tan.
We get judged for the hairstyles we created, and yet when a celebrity does it, it's considered beautiful and edgy.
All of this made me realize that I should be proud of every single feature I have on my body and I should embrace my culture.
Black women are the most envied people on Earth.
To all my black girls who feel that they aren't good enough remember that you are absolutely everything they want to be.
