i just recently watched (like ten minutes ago) the Tyra Show's April 24th episode (Do Light Skin Black People Have A Better Advantage) with my Asian sisterfriend who was nothing short of shocked to find this kind of discrimination within the African-American community.
She thought it was stupid tho' because she felt that Black people had enough goin' on in America without having to fight themselves as well. Smart girl.
I think I asked this before, but I got a serious case of I-forget-itis, so **** me.
Do you think lightskinneded folk in the African-American community get better treatment than darkskinneded folk?
Actually, I don't think that's it. My family is half-Afro-Caribbean and half-Asian (South and otherwise) and we are not all light-skinned.
Fact is, one's phenotype is really the luck of the draw. There are only ten or so genes that determine your outlook, so even with light-skinned parents one can be a dark-skinned child.
Actually, I don't think that's it.
My family is half-Afro-Caribbean and half-Asian (South
and otherwise) and we are not all light-skinned.
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Actually -- the post did NOT say or imply in any way
that a person HAD TO HAVE a light-skin complexion
IN ORDER TO BE of a Mixed-Race ancestral lineage
What the post noted was that -- those people
who do have a light-skin complexion are quite
clearly of a visibly Mixed-Race ancestral lineage!
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It is often a surprise for people to learn
that, in reality, there is actually No Such
Thing As a "Light Skinned Black" person.The term "Light Skinned Black" is really nothing
more than a racist oxymoron that was created by
White Supremacists in an effort to forcibly
deny those Mixed-Race individuals, who are
of a Multi-Generational Multiracially-Mixed
(MGM-Mixed) Lineage, the right to fully
embrace and to also received public support
in choosing to acknowledge the truth
regarding their full ancestral heritage.
The people who have been slapped with the false
label and oxymoronic misnomer of "Light Skinned
Black" person are simply Mixed-Race individuals
-- whose family have been continually Mixed-Race
throughout their multiple generations.Yahoo! GroupsYahoo! GroupsYahoo! GroupsYahoo! GroupsYahoo! GroupsYahoo! GroupsYahoo! GroupsSource(s):Generation-Mixed : A group for all Multi-racials everywhereMGM-Mixed : Multi-Generational Multi-Racially MixedFGM-Mixed : First Generation Multiracially-Mixed
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Actually -- the post did NOT say or imply in any way
that a person HAD TO HAVE a light-skin complexion
IN ORDER TO BE of a Mixed-Race ancestral lineage
nor did it support the idea of pitting (i.e. "vs.")
people who had a given "skin coloring" against
another group with another "skin coloring".
What the post noted was that -- those people
who do have a light-skin complexion are quite
clearly of a visibly Mixed-Race ancestral lineage!
*********************ORIGINAL POST************************
It is often a surprise for people to learn
that, in reality, there is actually No Such
Thing As a "Light Skinned Black" person.The term "Light Skinned Black" is really nothing
more than a racist oxymoron that was created by
White Supremacists in an effort to forcibly
deny those Mixed-Race individuals, who are
of a Multi-Generational Multiracially-Mixed
(MGM-Mixed) Lineage, the right to fully
embrace and to also received public support
in choosing to acknowledge the truth
regarding their full ancestral heritage.
The people who have been slapped with the false
label and oxymoronic misnomer of "Light Skinned
Black" person are simply Mixed-Race individuals
-- whose family have been continually Mixed-Race
throughout their multiple generations.
For more information on this subject matter --- please
feel free to contact me directly at soaptalk@hotmail.com.
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