Lynn of Reflections in D Minor takes a chance and makes an honest, yet un-PC statement:

This might sound weird and it might even be offensive, in fact I'm sure it is because you can't say anything without offending someone but I like Black people. Yes I notice the differences and I like them. I like their voices. I like their eyes. I like proud, dignified Black men like James Earl Jones and Sidney Poitier. I like old-fashioned, motherly Black women; there's something about them that's so... I don't know... warm. But I'm not saying that all Black people ought to be like that anymore than I'd say all White men ought to be like... oh... Patrick Stewart, for example. I'm just saying, these people, those particular qualities, appeal to me.

I've had that experience myself.

Thanks to the US Navy, I had the opportunity to meet lots of people with better tans than me.

Technically, this includes everyone except Canadian red-heads, but that's beside the point.

And that point is... that when you're charmed by someone's personality, their noticable physical features become attractive by association, even if that feature is not, in and of itself, necessarily attractive.

For example, Beloved Wife has a mole on her... well, she has one. Madonna has one, too, but I think she's a total skank, so I don't find it attractive. I do, however, cherish Beloved Wife's.

Halle Berry has a body shape that would look good in ANY color of the rainbow, but because of that figure, her skin tone becomes pleasurable by association.

In 1990, I lived in low-income housing in Virginia (the Enterprise was in drydock and uninhabitable, so the Navy stuffed us wherever they could find room), and most of my neighbors were black. Most of them also had the "low-income mentality" and were 2nd or 3rd generation single welfare mothers. I did NOT find their skin color attractive. However, there was one young lady named Tammy, who had attitude and ambition, and you could just TELL she was going on to a brighter future. On her, that color looked gorgeous.

So I'm agreeing with Lynn. When it's on a person of class & dignity, ebony skin is a feature, not a bug.

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