Re: What is this obsession with light skin??
the desire for fair skin comes from institutionalized oppression and lack of privilege that darker skinned people have experienced vs. fairer skinned people. this comes from the history of western domination n critical race theory, white privilege is a set of advantages enjoyed by white people beyond those commonly experienced by non-white people in the same social, political, and economic spaces (nation, community, workplace, income, etc.). Theorists differentiate it from racism or prejudice because, they say, a person who may benefit from white privilege is not necessarily racist or prejudiced and may be unaware of having any privileges reserved only for whites.
what we see as beautiful is a refelction of who has access to wealth, economics, education and in this world where the west has dominated it is only natural that one correlates white beauty to these things.
there is no tangible quality that makes white better than brown.