Saturday, January 3, 2009

Light Skinned Blacks Vs Dark Skinned Blacks

Mocha, Milk Chocolate, Honey, Dark Chocolate and Caramel. Sounds like ingredients for a candy bar but not in this case. It's some of the many terms that black people use to describe their skin tone. I see so many things about this that it sickens me. Posts that say white people treat light skinned blacks better and even that black people treat light skinned blacks better. What's the deal?! When white person looks at a black person, they're going to think "Oh. A black person." They're not going think "Oh. A caramel skinned black person." or "Oh. A milk chocolate skinned black person." When white people look at other white people, they don't think "Oh. An ivory skinned white person." or "Oh. A beige skinned white person." They think "Oh. A white person." White people divide white people into two colors: Tanned and Pale/Untanned. I don't get how black people want to divide themselves based on something like skin tone after what so many people went through to stop discrimination based on skin tone. Also so many people have tried to stop the idea that your skin tone makes you superior and you see soooo many black people (especially women) act like they are the gift to the world simply because they're a maybe one or two shades paler. There's nothing wrong with being any skin tone. There's nothing wrong with changing your skin tone by tanning or skin lightening or thinking your skin tone is beautiful. Just don't think it makes you above everyone else.

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