LightSkin vs. Darkskin
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Started by A'Kaye47
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Jun 2004
A'Kaye47
Dover, DE
Aiight yall.....Its been a minute since I had a more SERIOUS post so....
Peep game, I was listening to the radio while I was gettin ready for work this mornin an the Topic of the day was "Light SKin vs. DarkSkin Black People...is the rumors true about Light SKin having an advantage over more darker tones or is it a myth?"...what chall think about this...an have you experienced anything dealing with the tone of your skin?....DO TELL!!!
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My "sister" use to get the "ooooh you cute to be dark" comment.
Personally i prefer my girl to be a lil darker. there are gorgeous women of every shade....cept white, lol...sorry i just can get wit'em.
Someone said "lightskinned girls are stuck on theirselves" kinda true.
I also remember my mother tellin me about the Paper Bag test. My uncle (RIP) she said was the only one of the four of them that could pass it.
I get on all the people i know about how they think lightskinned girls are prettier. I always bring up the India Arie and Alicia Keys thing. most guys go "Hands down, Alicia Keys"......"explain?"....*no answer*
there's preferencial treatment but the world is going to continue to turn, there are guys out there that stil believe in the words of 2Pac reciting the old sayings "the blacker the berry the sweeter the juice. you know the darker the skin is, the deeper the roots."
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HU_Intellect wrote:I think that light skinned still does have an advantage over dark-skinned esp. if you are so light you could pass for Caucasian like some of my family members. It all stems back to the days of slavery when the separated the slaves into house slaves and field slaves. The house slaves were the light skinned people who either were just born lighter or had some white in them and were able to work by the master instead of working the fields. From that time until now we have been taught to hate each other. One of the main points of slavery was to dismantle the African race and make them as weak as possible, and one way to do that was turn them against each other. It is all very well documented in the "Willy Lynch Letter" I suggest that book to everyone of color. But yea key point is it still goes on now just not as blatantly and it all stems from slavery.
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or
chocolate skinned
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princess at my side...
But that's besides the point... In the 20th century, we have to get it out of our heads that one colour is inferior to the other. If you walk into a place with the confidence that you can do the job (if you actually can to the job), or that you can get the guy, then chances are your skin tone will have nothing to do with it, as far as things are concerned with black people.
