Quote to Ponder:
"As
a strategy of colonization, encouraging enslaved blacks..." - bell
hooks
"As a strategy of colonization, encouraging enslaved blacks to embrace and uphold white supremacist aesthetics was a masterstroke. Teaching black folks to hate dark skin was one way to ensure that whether white oppressors were present or not, the values of white supremacy would still rule the day."
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