Review of Dark Girls (2011) by Gideon R — 07 Jun 2014

Firstly this movie is more powerful, meaningful, and inspiring than "12 Years a Slave.".

The underlying message is that change doesn't come when people focus on the negativity of the past, be it the slavery of dark skinned people, or the attempt to erradicate people because of their religion, etc.

This movie is powerful to me because it touches on a lot of things I have been saying for years now... The message which mostly falls on deaf ears regardless of its truth.

A woman is at her most beautiful when she works (meaning values herself enough to look modest and be confident) with what G-d gave her. I am always stunned when a African woman lets her curls grow into an afro like Lauryn Hill, and equally when a white woman doesn't go out of her way to be tanned or perm their hair, and when Spanish women let their wavy hair go without color or straightening... Most of all I love when my Japanese wifes hair is just as when she was born with it...

I don't lie to her or to myself when I say that she is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen when she takes off the make-up, removes all the artificial contaminants and radiates her G-d given beauty for my eyes early. I prefer when she doesn't wear make up.

Yes indoctrination and subordination always makes most people (women in this case) defend their oppressor just as the African American slaves defended slavery before it was abolished and how the Jewish people actually wanted to return to Pharoah and his back-breaking work...

I know this perception and perpetual lie won't dissipate over night, but I hope and pray that men and women of every race and ethnicity can appreciate who they are, how they are unique, and how that is truly beautiful.