A serious, but shallow, question for people in the South
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Started by In Rod We Trust
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Apr 2004
O.k. i have always wanted to attend a black college. I have gotten excepted into eveyone that I applied to. I'm very close to transfer to one but the one thing that is preventing me from making a final choice, besides saving a little more money attending a state school again next year, is that Im a dark skinned sista.Im so afraid about going to the south because I have heard from many people about how different darker skinned people are treated, especially by other blacks. Im from NY, and don't get me wrong, there is hella decrimination against darker skinned people, especailly sistas, but I have been told that its much worse down in the south. This may sound really trivial but this has been on my mind for the longest. My whole life I've heard, "you cute to be a dark skinned girl!" or "you a pretty BLACK girl!", Im used to it by now. I know that I am an attractive person and don't get it twisted, I get major play.....but I know that if I was lighter skinned I would get so much more attention and I wouldn't here uneducated comments. I have been to several places in the south because most of my family is from Alabama, Georgia or LA but I have never lived there for more that 2 months. My question is for all the people who had lived, live or spend a good amount of time in the south, how serious is the skin complexion issue there? Do I really have anything to woory about?Am I being to dramatic about whole thing?
i am from MS and pleez beleeve we got all shades and colors... back at home, it was all good.. none of that "light skinned is better" and stuff...but in some few instances, like louisiana..this is a diff story
my homeboi is creole so he is real light, and his folks get **** if they see him wit a dark skinned girl..plus, a girl from southern lousiana told me that she grew up around light skinned people and always thought dark was dirty.
when i met her family, her grandfather was lookin at me hard... he was senile, but then he said "who is the field ni@@a"..i was buggin, but i wasnt mad, cuz he was old..
so i guess it varies from situation to situation.. i am from da SIP, and its all good there..we dont care whut SHADE a gul is... we just care about the SHAPE
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I live in a rural town in Georgia, and the whole light-skinned vs Dark-skinned issue is rarely brought up. I almost never hear people talking about how they would not date a person because of how dark they are. Actually, most girls I know don't really like to date light-skinned males. A lot of guys in my area do date girls based on thickness, just like someone earlier said.
Guest 99 wrote:O.k. i have always wanted to attend a black college. I have gotten excepted into eveyone that I applied to. I'm very close to transfer to one but the one thing that is preventing me from making a final choice, besides saving a little more money attending a state school again next year, is that Im a dark skinned sista.Im so afraid about going to the south because I have heard from many people about how different darker skinned people are treated, especially by other blacks. Im from NY, and don't get me wrong, there is hella decrimination against darker skinned people, especailly sistas, but I have been told that its much worse down in the south. This may sound really trivial but this has been on my mind for the longest. My whole life I've heard, "you cute to be a dark skinned girl!" or "you a pretty BLACK girl!", Im used to it by now. I know that I am an attractive person and don't get it twisted, I get major play.....but I know that if I was lighter skinned I would get so much more attention and I wouldn't here uneducated comments. I have been to several places in the south because most of my family is from Alabama, Georgia or LA but I have never lived there for more that 2 months. My question is for all the people who had lived, live or spend a good amount of time in the south, how serious is the skin complexion issue there? Do I really have anything to woory about?Am I being to dramatic about whole thing?
). Even though there are those guys that loooove light skinned girls, there are also those guys that looooove dark-skinned girls...so it's all the same to me. And plus, that shouldn't influence your decision on a college, unless the professors make you sit in the back of the class or something....
