Same thing applies to ugly.
IMO, it is unlikely that you can change peoples preferences by chastising them for having preferences. If a Black man prefers a White or lightskin woman, do you truely believe that you can change that preferrence by criticising that preference. I mean if your goal is to effect change, you have to realize that criticizing ones preferences or attempting to claim that they are less Black than the next Black guy is a definate way to alienate as oppose to unify. The only effective way to change someones preferences is to show them the benefits of what you want them to choose and allow them to choose of their own free will. As Sir Walter Reliegh said "A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still"Actually this is an issue that I normally don't touch at all. However, when I look at this site with the subject matters that seem to me for the strangest reasons to be a preoccupied thought of our people here, when it shouldn't be, I simply felt the need to address it. Furthermore, when I look out in the world and see the overwhelming influence of "so called black men" that the media keeps pushing in the faces of our young as if they are some kind of role model to be emulated all because they have a white woman, bling, cars and all the other non-essential garbage that isn't aiding or elevating us as a people....I knew I couldn't leave this alone. Our young are attracted to 50 cent, Dr. Dre, Puss Daddy, Baby Wayne, Nikki Minage and a whole lot of them that you and I both know are sending the wrong messages, images and everything else into the impressionable minds of our young...and if we on some level or another are not addressing it then it goes unchecked.
With a trillion dollar spending capital, we as a people don't own a **** thing ! When I asked myself why is that, I knew that the answer was in the consciousness of those who have all this money and in the idea that we are not educating our own people so that they could possibly see themselves and our people as they should.
The Afrakan organization I'm a part of called "Waset Communivesity" here in Newark have just finished producing our own honey from the bee farms we have. Now we are about to begin farming our own talapia fish. I advocate everything you mentioned with a slight twist to it...I want them to take that talent and ability back home to Afraka where they can do it, teach it and move better without all these white restrictions and where they will be welcomed as they begin to aid our people who really want to be and need to be reached out to.