There tends to be a factor of irrationality that lurks around to make fools of us whenever we base arguments solely on race, disregarding other aspects of our humanity or human frailties. One such factor that has posed problems for generations of black people, for example, is that too many of them have allowed people from other races to determine for them how they should see themselves in terms of beauty. For this reason it has not been difficult for far too many black people, even today, to accept that anyone black can be beautiful. For these to be black is to be ugly.