Light skin, Dark skin; It's all Black skin.

People often fantasize the idea of having mixed children, you want the green eyes, loose 3b curls, and fair caramel skin but what happens when your child comes out a beautiful melanin rich angel with kinky 4c hair and warm brown eyes?
I believe we; black folk have been brainwashed into believing that "white is right", often times we seek out and praise aspects of "whiteness", whether that be our hair curl pattern, nose shape, skin complexion, you name it or even our other halves. By that last part I'm referring to certain black men out there that specifically state that they "don't date dark skin women", "light skin girls are prettier" or "I need to find myself a nice redbone". It's a dangerous thing to further separate ourselves especially in a world where we face anti-blackness everywhere we go. 
This constant bashing of the melanin rich black woman leads to self-hate and subsequently black sisters (some, not all) begin relaxing their hair, bleaching their skin in a bid to achieve a "European standard of beauty" in order to be seen as desirable.

Returning back to my point about mixed race children and the almost disturbing obsession with them, It seems that more often than non if a mixed race child does not possess ALL the stereotypical "mixed race features" i.e fair skin, loose curls, etc. the interest in said child almost diminishes entirely, this is the sick reality of it all. This isn't build-a-bear workshop, black comes in every shade from albino to very dark brown, that's the beauty of melanin. The same goes for hair pattern, a beautiful dark skinned black woman can have natural 3b curls in her hair (without having white blood, yes black people CAN have loose curls or even straight hair because these hair types are not exclusive to the white race), the same way an equally beautiful mixed race or light skinned black woman can have 4c hair. Essentially what I'm trying to get at is that colorism is extremely damaging within the black community, people don't want to acknowledge its existence either and whenever a person does they are labelled a "bitter dark skin" when that isn't the case at all. I myself am (if you want to put a label on it) what you would call "brown skinned", I have love for both my dark skinned  and light skinned brothers and sisters, we have bigger fish to fry rather than hating on each others complexion with "team light skin" or "team dark skin", at the end of the day; light skin, dark skin, it's all black skin, as a black person how light your skin is doesn't stop a cop from gunning you down (among other things) thanks to systematic and institutionalized racism.