YOUTH NOW
“I Hate That I’m Black. I Hate That I’m Ugly. I Hate My Nose.”
A young girl struggles to square her beauty with what she sees on screen
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5 min readSep 12, 2018
One day in third grade, I pulled a green slip of paper from my desk. In a dark, haunting ink, I wrote down all the things I hated about myself. I hate that I’m Black. I hate that I’m ugly. I hate…
