The writer and television producer Hari Ziyad recently wrote a blog post entitled "Choosing Black Love: Why I'm Unlikely to Spend My Life with a White Person." Ziyad, who is African-American and gay, argues that white supremacy has so corroded Western ideas of what constitutes beauty that even black people don't recognize themselves:
After many failed pursuits [of white men], I began to feel again that I was unworthy of love, a belief that I had previously learned from a household and childhood environment that was not accepting of my queerness. But it wasn't that I was unworthy, it was that White Supremacy and those who operate within it necessarily couldn't love Blackness. It was that I was operating within it as well, and could not fully love the vibrant Black communities and other communities of color that I had never noticed were around me because I wasn't looking.
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