Confessions of a D Girl: Colorism and Global Standards of Beauty | Chika Okoro | TEDxStanford
If you look like me, you’re used to colorism, says Stanford Graduate Business School student Chika Okoro. She calls the phenomenon known as colorism – discrimination against those with a darker skin tone — “both as sinister and as subtle as racism.” In a world where light skin, light eyes and long “real” hair are sought after features, Okoro tells us how she copes, and what we can do to unlearn this deep rooted, destructive mindset.
Chika Okoro is a second year MBA student at Stanford. Passionate about race and gender equality, she is excited to raise awareness about the many issues that women of color face around the world. She hopes that her talk will start a conversation about important issues that people are less vocal about today. While at Stanford Chika is an Arbuckle Leadership Fellow providing leadership coaching and training to MBA 1st year students. Before coming to Stanford she worked at Procter & Gamble as an assistant brand manager and spent last summer at Google as a product-marketing manager. Chika holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University where she wrote her honors thesis on race and identity in the black community.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
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Why why why why why…..
My tounge would move like a dog drinking water!!!! Yummy
Whatever the global standard of beauty is, she got it
why do people sit in the sun and get tanned then?
i agree with everything but the third actress on the slide is aishwarya rai and she is naturally a fair skinned indian actress…and this problem of light skin vs dark skin is also quite prevalent in india..
She is genuinely so pretty omg
That outfit. smh Good speech though.
Her face looks angry lol
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we are all beautiful…that can be seen in the lenses of love. keep falling in love
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Racism at its best why does it still happen
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gosh is no one talking about how inappropraite her outfit is???
I don't know mam how to speak enģlish.
I want to speak english. as ĺiķe u .can u teach me.
You speak very well
U àre greàt mam
Mam you are so beautyful
Yet it is okay for you to rock your 20" Brazilian Hair EXTENSION. 😏SO IN THE END U TAKE THE WEAVE OUT?!!!! OH YOU DONT….😏
The outfit sis…😏
Stop letting society define your level of beauty!! You are a child of God. Your beauty is unmeasurable!!!
Honey you have permed hair and talk like the 80’s valley girl from the breakfast club. Embrace yourself then we can talk.
All the guys in the comments section who are only commenting on her looks are missing the whole point. You are still judging her worth based only on her appearance.
I think things are looking up
The asked the wrong kids