I heard about it, but I didn’t see it until today. While sitting at my desk reading about Philadelphia’s Civil Rights and Black Power movements, my filmmaker nephew, Andrew Burroughs, sent me a link to a recent documentary about shadism and Black self-hate that should be seen and forwarded around to everyone.

“Check this out it’s really disturbing,” he told me in the message field. “This is one of the reasons I’m a filmmaker.”

You’ve heard of that doll test from 1954, right? Long time ago, right? Well, think again. I’ve heard about this update for a while now, but this was the first time I’ve actually seen it. Here’s an article on the issue by my hero, Hazel Trice Edney.

The Afros and the dashikis and “Black Is Beautiful” were supposed to fix this. But as someone who constantly grapples with his own shadism (and classism) issues, I know this is a hard problem to lick.