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Choose ONE of the following questions to answer now in full sentences:

• Why is colorism so widespread but not often talked about?
• How does colorism impact your community?
• What are the standards of beauty according to colorism? Where and how is this learned?
• Light is often used in media to represent what is "good", while darkness is often used to represent what is "bad". What effect can this trope have on someone who has dark skin? What effect can this have on someone with light skin?
• How does colorism support white supremacy?
• What are some actions to take around challenging and ending colorism?Required to answer.Multi Line Text.

User Donnyton
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Bullet 1: colorist is so widespread, but not talked about because majority of people have normalized colorism, and many have just given up on change, because it has been this way for so long, as long as many people can even remember
User Khurram Ijaz
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Answer:

Because people refer to white as good and black as bad, people think dark-skinned humans are evil, ugly, and lower than white-skinned humans. While people with fairer skin were believed to be better and prettier then dark-skinned

Step-by-step explanation:

answer to the 4th bullet point

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