On the day of the election last November, I played several CNN news reports for my homeroom class. One of the stories I chose dealt with the Kenyan public's response to the possibility of Barack Obama being elected. The CNN crew visited a rural Kenyan town to speak to the overjoyed citizens. One of these was an elderly, toothless woman.
Student [Monique Brown]: "Man why do they only show the ugly black people on TV?"
If that isn't an unwitting commentary on the negative self image of African-Americans in the US, I don't know what is.
(Later in class, I should mention, Monique also remarked--quite sincerely--that Michelle Obama was beautiful. This made me happy.)
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