No one even said you have to add a dark skinned friend to your friendship group for wokeness points. The point was that if you’ve gone your whole life without making a single dark skinned friend then maybe that’s a result of internal biases you’re not aware of

You’re living in a black ass country on a black ass continent where the average person is medium to dark skinned and you don’t have a single friend darker than a paper bag? Not even one? In an African country?

I hate having conversations about internal biases because the response is always “so you’re saying we HAVE to associate with xyz people???” No one is saying you have to do anything. Just that your tendency to gravitate towards specific people doesn’t exist in a vacuum

Especially when the people you gravitate towards just *happen* to privileged or adhere to conventional standards of beauty.

This convo is even stated within the context of influencers who sell aesthetics for a living and are extra conscious of who they associate with

This convo even *started. My God spelling is defeating me today

Amazing that people have STILL chosen to interpret a thread that explicitly started off by saying no one is telling you that you have to get a dark skinned friend as saying they must immediately befriend someone on the basis of their dark skin