Dark Skin vs Light Skin. The color divide in Black America

[hipaware]

This is a common topic in the AA community. It started from the lighter skinnned more admixed house slaves recieving better priveledges, from the darker skinned purer Black field slaves.

This has continued with the Brown Paper Bag test meant to exclude darker skinned AAs from socializing with MGM AAs.

http://www.sptimes.com/2003/08/31/Co...bag_test.shtml

This Light Skin/Dark Skin discrimination is still happening today.


http://www.thefamuanonline.com/mobil...sion-1.2213505

Thoughts?

[Sikeliot]

You see it in the media today. Examples of "black beauty" are either mulattos, or light skinned multigenerational mixed people.

[hipaware]

You see it in the media today. Examples of "black beauty" are either mulattos, or light skinned multigenerational mixed people.

The cold thing about it is, when a darker skinned AA woman is shown on the media, they typically look like Precious, when there are many beautiful dark skinned AA women not shown in the media.



Ive heard statements from Black men about darker skinned women that's simlar to how many Apricity posters think about Blacks.

[Sikeliot]

I don't think it's so much dark skin that people find unattractive but the wide and broad facial features often coming with it.

[Osprey]

The cold thing about it is, when a darker skinned AA woman is shown on the media, they typically look like Precious, when there are many beautiful dark skinned AA women not shown in the media.



Ive heard statements from Black men about darker skinned women that's simlar to how many Apricity posters think about Blacks.

That's why i hate blacks.
If they could fo honest labor, love and respect their women and stop looking up to whitey, then they would have been perfectly good people in my book.
Their Ugliness is nothing compared to their self hate, especially of the men.

[Sikeliot]

Not everyone is the same though.. there are good and bad in every group.

[hipaware]

That's why i hate blacks.
If they could fo honest labor, love and respect their women and stop looking up to whitey, then they would have been perfectly good people in my book.
Their Ugliness is nothing compared to their self hate, especially of the men.

Its a product of slavery and colonialism. Its not really an excuse, but Eurocentric beauty standards have been ingrained in Western Black men. West/Central African women are the farthest from that standard.

% feel bad for the western Black woman who has to compare herself with Eurocentric beauty standards.

[finþaų]

Its a product of slavery and colonialism. Its not really an excuse, but Eurocentric beauty standards have been ingrained in Western Black men. West/Central African women are the farthest from that standard.

% feel bad for the western Black woman who has to compare herself with Eurocentric beauty standards.

Is that also the case with the straight-out-of-the-jungle black men who come to my country, live at our expense and instinctively rape our women without thinking twice? Almost all rapes here are committed by African (and to a lesser extent Middle Eastern) men against Swedish females.

[Contra Mundum]

Howard Stern touched on that topic. Former Pro-Baseball player Darryl Strawberry criticized his wife for being too dark and told her to avoid the sun..lol.

Stern mocking Strawberry. Hilarious!
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[Contra Mundum]

Not everyone is the same though.. there are good and bad in every group.

Your post reminded me of the lyrics to this song.

We All Know That People Are The Same Where Ever We Go
There Is Good And Bad In Ev'ryone,
We Learn To Live, We Learn To Give
Each Other What We Need To Survive Together Alive.

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