The issue of race, color, and beauty has been on my mind a lot lately.  I was on facebook and saw a group entitled Black is Beautiful.  There were numerous pictures of black women of different shades, sizes, ages, ethnicities, etc...and I must say in my opinion they were all beautiful.  So I decided to pay homage to the different shades of beauty also.  I went to google.com and somehow came across a blog entitled "Do you find black women attractive?"  Here are some of the responses:

I'm black, but I like Latinas the most! Damn those are some fine mother f***ers But my black friends give me crap about not linking my own race They tease and say Jungle Fever. My white friends Black girls look like monkeys Do you think this? I just don't like the black girls at my school becuase the're so loud and obnoxius(atleast the ones Ive been around)

I think girls of every ethnic background can be attractive. And they can all be ugly.

no offence but the ones i've been around always wear coconut lotion, and that is a turnoff

Usually black women are not attractive, but if they are only half black, they can be hot. I seriously don't know an attractive whole black girl in real life.

So needless to say I was a little upset.  Especially by the first and last comments. (The one about coconut lotion was just irrelevant) but n e way.  The first response was by a black man stating that he liked Latina women better than those of his own race and that the black girls he know are loud and obnoxious.  Even if beauty is not colorblind, ignorance definitely is and there are loud and obnoxious individuals of all races.  The last statement claimed that there are no fully black women whom are attractive.  Many of my male friends have stated that "mixed" or Latina women are the most attractive and are their preferences, although there is nothing "wrong" with black women.  I know many black men who find dark skinned black women unattractive and will not date a dark skinned girl at all or "unless she is realllll fine".  I have also caught alot of disapproval from some of my closest friends for saying that I find dark skinned men to be very attractive.  Now, never have anyone of them come out and bluntly said that I was wrong for feeling that way but there has been frowns on their faces, the expression as if they smelled something foul, and one even go so far as to say my taste in men was "tart" and that I did not need to date a dark skinned man because my children would be "dark as hell".  Now never did I say that light skinned men were unattractive, I find men of all shades sexy. I just felt it necessary to uplift dark skinned individuals in our community because they catch so much hell not only from other races but from our own, maybe even more so!  I believe it is the variety in the black race that makes it so beautiful and it bothers me when black men and women discriminate against the dark skinned individuals in our community.  Don't get me wrong...you should feel free to like who and whatever it is you like.  But do not justify the beauty in what you like by ignoring or refusing to see the beauty in what is the opposite of what you like.  Beauty comes in all shades, sizes, ages, races, and ethnicities; in my opinion at least.  But I will ask you.....

Do you think beauty is colorblind?