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 Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 7:00 pm
I want to address a problem that affects the black communities youngsters. Colorisim and self hate, I had to put up with it when I was younger. Because my fathers side of the family has only five dark skinned people (my aunts, one uncle and my grandma) but my dad is a much reddish brown color.
But after him my other aunts, uncles and cousins all are so light skinned they look white. With good straight hair, light skin, greenish blue eyes etc. And being around them I felt ugly and not as good as them and that I was too dark (Eventhough to many other blacks I'd be seen as light brown)
And another thing you'll have probably seen. The light skinned female with the obscenly dark skinned man. Or some may have heard this little rhyme.
Light, sit tight
Brown, stay around
Black, stay back
~ Discuss
Colorisim, Self hate, light skinned vs dark skin drama
etc.
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 7:15 pm
that the same thing in my family but we laugh about it.
but it goes back to the dark slaves being out in the field and the light ones where inside
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 7:52 pm
[bump_whitey may have a point, with his reference to the "slavery days," when light skinned african-americans were given "special treatment" over their darker-skinned counterparts. But how much relevance does that really have today? It's black people mostly who treat each other differently based upon their "shade" of brown.
I guess I may not have much to add this time... (Surprising, huh?)
I mean, I'm not extremely dark, but I'm in no way "light" either. I don't remember there ever really being too much drama surrounding my skin tone. My mom and her mother are light skinned; my dad and his side of the family dark-skinned.
I never saw too much of a problem with my skin tone, not even when I was dating a white man. And if other people did, they kept it to themselves. The issue was only recently brought to the forefront of my mind when my very dark skinned girlfriend brought up the fact that she doesn't like to date white men because she is "so dark." ]
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 8:08 pm
the tone of a black persons skin should be the last thing we worry about
who needs racism wew have blacks hating blacks
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:43 am
[I think blacks have always made up reasons to hate other blacks. If we were all the same shade, (which is impossible), some black people would hate others for dating outside their race or financial status, hair type or body shape.
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Oh, wait...black folks are already hating on each other for those things. No need to be hypothetical, then. stare ]
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 4:20 pm
Bleh. When I used to swim everday in the summer, I used to get really DARK. Personally, I didn't give a s**t. I was 7 and I was having fun. But my brothers made fun of me stare .
When my mom was little, she was the only "dark" person out of her brothers and sisters (shes my color). At school they told her, "Charlotte dark, but she sho' do got good hair." She went to an all black school and told me how the dark skinned and people without "good hair" were made fun of.
Now, I see people who try to make fun of other people cause they are dark. My ex-boyfriend has dark skin and they used to hold up black jackets and say, "Where'd he go?" That crap is so old and it wasn't funny the first time. Bleh... I'll stop now
"...light-skin used to be way in but brown-skin is tha hot s**t now..." -Missy Elliot
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:40 pm
THERES ALOT SO BRACE YOURSELF ughh in my family it goes back to grandma shes fairly light skinned lots of indian from her mom and even more from her dad when she was young she was like young tina turner now shes like old tina turnershe married a white jewish dude who left her and my mom who pretty much looks puertorican with good hair and when to an all black school where she god teased like hell cause she was the only mixed kid and them my grandma got involved witha black guy and had my aunty out of wedlock and so my aunty is blacker looking , so there was alot of rivarly and s**t and my mom always wanted to be darker like my aunty, then you know she meets my dad who is just about as dark as you get about the color of a garabage bag [no offense] sweatdrop , so they have my brother whos like medium brown and everything but he gets the whole you act like a white guy all the time thingy and all of his friends are white, and 3 years later I was born and I looked half chinese but eventually I darkened up to like tyler perrys complexion and my borther grew wanting to be lighter like me and I grew up wanting to be darker like him because everybody thought i was mixed and made fun of me, saying I wasn't really black, till i got skinny and lost all my baby fat then i was carmeliscious or some s**t...confusing ain't it
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 9:32 pm
thirdeyephilsophy THERES ALOT SO BRACE YOURSELF ughh in my family it goes back to grandma shes fairly light skinned lots of indian from her mom and even more from her dad when she was young she was like young tina turner now shes like old tina turnershe married a white jewish dude who left her and my mom who pretty much looks puertorican with good hair and when to an all black school where she god teased like hell cause she was the only mixed kid and them my grandma got involved witha black guy and had my aunty out of wedlock and so my aunty is blacker looking , so there was alot of rivarly and s**t and my mom always wanted to be darker like my aunty, then you know she meets my dad who is just about as dark as you get about the color of a garabage bag [no offense] sweatdrop , so they have my brother whos like medium brown and everything but he gets the whole you act like a white guy all the time thingy and all of his friends are white, and 3 years later I was born and I looked half chinese but eventually I darkened up to like tyler perrys complexion and my borther grew wanting to be lighter like me and I grew up wanting to be darker like him because everybody thought i was mixed and made fun of me, saying I wasn't really black, till i got skinny and lost all my baby fat then i was carmeliscious or some s**t...confusing ain't it I braced myself, but it didn't work razz That was confusing. Ha... but Tyler Perry<3<3<3<3<3 I love Madea plays!!!
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 2:12 pm
yeah I saw him in person when he came to seattle rofl hellla funny rofl I think it was madeas family reunion.
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 5:34 pm
thirdeyephilsophy THERES ALOT SO BRACE YOURSELF ughh in my family it goes back to grandma shes fairly light skinned lots of indian from her mom and even more from her dad when she was young she was like young tina turner now shes like old tina turnershe married a white jewish dude who left her and my mom who pretty much looks puertorican with good hair and when to an all black school where she god teased like hell cause she was the only mixed kid and them my grandma got involved witha black guy and had my aunty out of wedlock and so my aunty is blacker looking , so there was alot of rivarly and s**t and my mom always wanted to be darker like my aunty, then you know she meets my dad who is just about as dark as you get about the color of a garabage bag [no offense] sweatdrop , so they have my brother whos like medium brown and everything but he gets the whole you act like a white guy all the time thingy and all of his friends are white, and 3 years later I was born and I looked half chinese but eventually I darkened up to like tyler perrys complexion and my borther grew wanting to be lighter like me and I grew up wanting to be darker like him because everybody thought i was mixed and made fun of me, saying I wasn't really black, till i got skinny and lost all my baby fat then i was carmeliscious or some s**t...confusing ain't it
It was so weird. My mom kinda had a bad feeling about what was going on and had a two hour talking to us.
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 7:10 pm
thirdeyephilsophy THERES ALOT SO BRACE YOURSELF ughh in my family it goes back to grandma shes fairly light skinned lots of indian from her mom and even more from her dad when she was young she was like young tina turner now shes like old tina turnershe married a white jewish dude who left her and my mom who pretty much looks puertorican with good hair and when to an all black school where she god teased like hell cause she was the only mixed kid and them my grandma got involved witha black guy and had my aunty out of wedlock and so my aunty is blacker looking , so there was alot of rivarly and s**t and my mom always wanted to be darker like my aunty, then you know she meets my dad who is just about as dark as you get about the color of a garabage bag [no offense] sweatdrop , so they have my brother whos like medium brown and everything but he gets the whole you act like a white guy all the time thingy and all of his friends are white, and 3 years later I was born and I looked half chinese but eventually I darkened up to like tyler perrys complexion and my borther grew wanting to be lighter like me and I grew up wanting to be darker like him because everybody thought i was mixed and made fun of me, saying I wasn't really black, till i got skinny and lost all my baby fat then i was carmeliscious or some s**t...confusing ain't it [Wouldn't be so bad if there was a period or so in ther someplace. neutral But anyway, like I said before, I guess I don't have too much to contribute to this. Luckily, everyone else does, so I get to find out what others had to deal with. 3nodding ]
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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 12:30 am
thirdeyephilsophy yeah I saw him in person when he came to seattle rofl hellla funny rofl I think it was madeas family reunion. OMG! That's my favorite Madea play!!one!!shift!!!<3
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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 3:08 pm
Disruptive thirdeyephilsophy yeah I saw him in person when he came to seattle rofl hellla funny rofl I think it was madeas family reunion. OMG! That's my favorite Madea play!!one!!shift!!!<3 [I hate to get so off topic...But I saw previews for a Madea movie and it looked more emotional than funny... neutral ]
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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 7:06 pm
Passion_Dragon Disruptive thirdeyephilsophy yeah I saw him in person when he came to seattle rofl hellla funny rofl I think it was madeas family reunion. OMG! That's my favorite Madea play!!one!!shift!!!<3 [I hate to get so off topic...But I saw previews for a Madea movie and it looked more emotional than funny... neutral ] thats why his plays are the best cause there dramatic and hilarious
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