Waking up to this f- - - ery on a Friday morning. What goes on in people’s heads that makes them think this is okay to say to someone?

I’ve grown up hearing ‘you’d be prettier if you were lighter’ and ‘you’re pretty for a black girl’ as if black women are just generally unattractive.

As if people of colour don’t already struggle enough with the pressure to conform to a Eurocentric beauty ideals and standards, people like this add even more.