color-coded
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Started by i*heart*pie
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Apr 2008
This is kind of based on a late-night/early-morning discussion that I was having with a friend of mine.
Do you think that color discrimination is still prevalent in the African-American community? If so, what do you think it says about how we view ourselves and the world around us?
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i definitely do.. i hear boys all the time talking about how they only like a certain skin tone of black girl. its like in that antwone fisher movie,when he was talking about which kids would get adopted first: the light skin girls, then the light skin boys, then the dark skin girls, then the dark skin boys. why? its ridiculous how brainwashed we are into thinking "white is right". we can't ever hope to gain advancement & respect as a community if we continue to be so divided. Black is beautiful. period.
MiA_theGREAT wrote:i definitely do.. i hear boys all the time talking about how they only like a certain skin tone of black girl. its like in that antwone fisher movie,when he was talking about which kids would get adopted first: the light skin girls, then the light skin boys, then the dark skin girls, then the dark skin boys. why? its ridiculous how brainwashed we are into thinking "white is right". we can't ever hope to gain advancement & respect as a community if we continue to be so divided. Black is beautiful. period.


I also called it f*cked up because we'll do anything to achieve that 'perfect look' without any thought to how it will affect our health. Not to mention the way we treat our own who do not and refuse to try to achieve our varying perception of beauty.