Tinder Guy Said She Wasn't White Enough, Her Response Blew Everyone Away

Takara Allen is a beautiful mixed-race woman who had a racist encounter with a tinder date.

The makeup artist who resides in Adelaide, Australia was left heartbroken after receiving a racist comment from one man, who wrote: 'Don't think I'm a creep and I don't wanna be offensive or anything but I was just looking [at] your insta photos and just curious, but have you ever thought about bleaching your skin?? You'd look so much prettier if you were whiter!'

Tara replied: 'Have you ever considered drinking bleach because the world would be so much prettier if you did,' She said, 'I was so in shock that someone would ever send that to me that I actually started crying out of frustration. I've never had anyone suggest that I bleach my skin before.'

She identifies as black, and commented: 'I would never bleach my skin, but I understand why others would feel the need to.' 'There's so much pressure for people of colour like myself to conform to European beauty ideals and standards. In most cultures being 'paler' or 'white' allows that individual to be treated better due to systematic racism and we are taught from a young age that being 'whiter' makes us more desirable and attractive. '

'The pressure gets worse the darker the individual is. I acknowledge and accept that I am treated somewhat better because I am not as dark as others so I can see the situation from both sides of the fence; both being treated and spoken to poorly because I am brown, but also benefiting to an extent from white privilege because I am light-skinned.'

She added: 'Now that it has been personally directed at me I can understand better how those that are darker than me feel on a daily basis and I feel their outrage so much more than I did before. I would never wish how I felt receiving that text message on anyone. I was devastated. I replied to him and then blocked him on everything. He doesn't deserve the chance to apologize for that. It's unacceptable.'

She wrote on a post: 'What goes on in people's heads that makes them think this is okay to say to someone? 'As if people of colour don't already struggle enough with the pressure to conform to Eurocentric beauty ideals and standards, people like this add even more.'

She wrote to him: 'How the F*** is this not offensive in your head?!' 'Like literally how can you come to the conclusion that this is even true? 'I've grown up hearing "You'd be prettier if you were lighter" and "You're pretty for a black girl," as if black women are just generally unattractive, and so it's a surprise when one of us is.'

The social media was also having none of it as Maddy Rose Smith wrote: 'You are beautiful just as you are miss'. Keara Dee said: 'Eeeeeeew who would wanna bleach their skin white when they have beautiful tan skin'.

Claire Doohan Bjornenak added: 'I hope he chokes on his words. You are absolutely gorgeous the way you are and I am sorry you had to deal with this.' Takara posted again, reffering to this matter. She said: 'This is a huge issue we deal with when dating/navigating the world in general and the darker you are the worse it gets. 'Black people's beauty is tied directly to blackness. We are not beautiful *in spite* of being black but rather *because* we're black. Don't get it twisted.'