You’re pretty for a dark-skinned girl

This is a statement that has plagued the African-American community. Why is it that people are shocked by beauty of someone with a darker complexion? Or are African-Americans still stuck with the hatred embedded from slavery.
The color complex among African-Americans has affected the way we feel about each other and our race. Light skinned girls and dark skinned girls can’t get along. Dark skinned girls resent their fair skinned sisters, while they, just want to fit in and considered black. “Light, bright, and damn near white,” is the phrase they hear unless they are being complimented on their long, gorgeous “good hair.” Which in turn is used against the little girl with “nigga napes,” because society tells her kinky hair is uncivilized.
Since slavery first began in America, slaves were divided by their complexion. If you were lighter skinned you worked in the house and were treated better. Darker skinned slaves were sent to the fields dealt with more mistreatment. This separation placed on the slaves still lives on today.
In the book “Don’t Play in the Sun” I read about a sorority using “the brown paper bag test” on acceptance into their sorority at Howard University. Members of this sorority would hold a brown paper bag to the face of prospects, and if their skin color was darker than the paper bag they were denied acceptance to the sorority. I couldn’t believe such acts were still practiced up to the end of the 20^th century.
The Black community of America needs to stop this nonsense of self discrimination. Its united we stand so let’s stand together and acknowledge all black beauty.