numbers you'd be right in a vacuum but the problem is that it's a systemic thing. people are taught that there is a specific ideal of beauty (which rn includes light colored skin), which informs their taste as they grow into adults. the problem isnt so much that people have preferences, but that peoples' preferences are curated by media conglomerates, advertising agencies, and so on. institutional racism is tied in with this because for quite some time black people were explicitly seen to be less desirable than white people in western culture, and the effects of this are still seen in media (less representation etc). and a material effect of this is that people of color tend to have a much harder time finding someone to accept them as they are. I'd wager that if cultural standards of beauty for women in the western world were overhauled, people would grow to not have these preferences so much in the first place.

Originally Posted by Maya

Look up "sexual racism" and "objectification." If people want to talk about their struggles with sexual racism,

Originally Posted by Numbers

Are people obligated to like every race/ethnicity equally? I don't get how "sexual racism" is a struggle. People have preferences and that's okay too.