Casual racism in north africa needs to be spoken about more

I'm only speaking from my personal experience, and stories I've heared from fellow friends that are also north african. If you have similar experiences, please share!

I'm a moroccan sahraoui, native to the sahara desert. Wich means I'm a black arab/afro arab, whatever you call it. And I have experienced "casual racism" a decent much in my country. Like many people with darker skin, I too had a white washing phase, where my dream as a child wasn't to become a doctor, or a teacher, or a singer. My dream as a child was to be white. To have pale skin, straight blond hair, and blue eyes. Instead of watching cartoons, I'd look up ways to make my skin lighter, and I'd dream of magically growing blond silky hair. And the worst part, some of my family members knew, wich includes my mom. And she didn't care. You could say that she encouraged it even. Telling me to stay out of the sun because I'm "dark enough", or never letting me go out unless my curly hair was tied up to "hide it". She stopped with time, but the damage was already done. And it wasn't just my mother, I've heared remarks about the way I look by other people aswell. I've had people look at me with confusion because I said I loved my skin, and wouldn't trade it for being pale. I've had people call me strange for loving the way I look, instead of wanting to look white. I've heared people say the n-word without a hint of melanin in them, but you can't say anything because you'd be considered as the weird one. And I'm not the only one who experienced such things, many of my friends who are north african but with darker skin, or with black african blood in them, have told me they experienced similar things.

I defenitly think things have been getting better lately, espacially since in morocco atleast curly hair is now considered beautiful and "every girls dream hair" instead of it being considered nappy, distracting, and just ugly. But ofcourse, casual racism towards darker skinned people, black or not, is still unfortunutly quite common. It has defenitly gotten much better, espacially due to people becoming a bit more educated with the help of social media, but, it is definitely still a problem.

If you're a fellow north african, do you have any thoughts?