Double standards in the black community: Why is this not considered colorism!!

[BrothaZay]

google definition -

1. prejudice or discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone, typically among people of the same ethnic or racial group.
   "colorism within the black community has been a serious emotional and psychological battle"

Well if we're going by Google definitions then black people can be racist against white ppl

Is it oochie wally or one mic

 

[010101]

it is colorism*

 

[The Plug]

Well if we're going by Google definitions then black people can be racist against white ppl

Is it oochie wally or one mic

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Well i just know from my personal experience I've seen dark skin people get told all type of crazy things. Roaches, burnt, apes, ugly etc.

For Light skin people its usually weak, emotional, stuck up etc. Its almost never directly a critique of their actual complexion just their character.


Colorism is all stupid though

How is that any different than calling a light skin person piss colored? I’ve been called that on here and I ain’t even that light. shyt was mad daps too. But if I had said some of the shyt you posted about it dark skin folks I’d be dead wrong

 

[Thegospel]

Well if we're going by Google definitions then black people can be racist against white ppl

Is it oochie wally or one mic

 

[Burned Verses]

Because lightskin men are the least insecure people in the black community & mostly shrug these jokes off.

 

[Fresh]

colorism affects both sides, like I said in another thread I saw with my own eyes in school light skin girls gettin jumped and getting their hair pulled out etc by groups of dark skin girls but nobody wants to have that conversation

colorism goes both ways in our community, but SOME people act like it only affects dark skin people

 

[The Plug]

I'm 90% sure much of the colorism discussion online has been written and centered around black women. Just reading this excerpt from wkipedia sounds like what a black woman would say.

During the European colonial period, travelers in Africa emphasized and added to a European discourse of black womanhood that attributed a big body to all black women. This was a symbol of ‘otherness’, their inferior phenotype, and backward culture and intellect.[45]

Although, today the thick Black female body is celebrated but it does not neglect the fact of white colonialist views and the prevalence of white beauty standards. “The voluptuous black female body is still perceived as unattractive, ugly, and grotesque—the opposite of beautiful—when seen through the prism of white supremacy.”[45]

In some parts of Africa, women with lighter skin are thought to be more beautiful and likely to find more success than women with darker skin tones.[46] Often this barrier leads to women turning to skin lightening treatments, many of which are harmful to the body.[47]

Historically, the cause of skin lightening dates back to European colonialism, where individuals with lighter skin received greater privilege than those of darker tones.[48] This built a racial hierarchy and color ranking within colonized African nations, leaving psychological effects on many of the darker skinned individuals.[48][47]

Colorism affects both women and men in African countries, but it has taken hold of the beauty standards associated with a woman's ability to find success and marriage. The number of women across African countries using bleaching products have gone up with 77% of Nigerian women, 52% of Senegalese women, and 25% of Malian women using lightening products.[46][48] Der Spiegel reports that in Ghana, "When You Are Light-Skinned, You Earn More" and that, "Some pregnant women take tablets in the hopes that it will lead their child to be born with fair skin. Some apply bleaching lotion... to their babies, in the hopes that it will improve their child's chances."[47]

Doubly they misquote how many women are using "bleaching products" here by using that one survey based on a few hundred people in Lagos but this is how widespread misinformation can be in the "intellectual" sectors.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

For the same reason nobody cared when I got made fun of for being a skinny guy, but let someone talk about the fat kid, then we have to have a conversation.

 

[Sterling Archer]

How is that any different than calling a light skin person piss colored? I’ve been called that on here and I ain’t even that light. shyt was mad daps too. But if I had said some of the shyt you posted about it dark skin folks I’d be dead wrong

Everyone’s experience is different but I’ve lived all over this country and im damn near 40 and ain’t never heard another black person (of any color) call someone those things that people are saying in this thread. And I used to roast the fukk out of everybody. I was know for that and even I never said no shyt like that about darker people. I would kill my dark skin homie over being ashy as fukk and how I ain’t want him on my team at when it got dark because of too many turnovers. That’s it.

Being called a piss colored cracker or other racial terms like spic and chink (I’m not mixed just light) or rape jokes about my mom was typical. I just roasted nikkas back or fought if I got tight about it. I still never acted like nikkas act online over getting ripped for my shade.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Everyone’s experience is different but I’ve lived all over this country and im damn near 40 and ain’t never heard another black person (of any color) call someone those things that people are saying in this thread. And I used to roast the fukk out of everybody. I was know for that and even I never said no shyt like that about darker people. I would kill my dark skin homie over being ashy as fukk and how I ain’t want him on my team at when it got dark because of too many turnovers. That’s it.

Being called a piss colored cracker or other racial terms like spic and chink (I’m not mixed just light) or rape jokes about my mom was typical. I just roasted nikkas back or fought if I got tight about it. I still never acted like nikkas act online over getting ripped for my shade.

What’s crazy is I never even been called light skin till I joined this site and I joined in my 30s

 

[Sterling Archer]

I'm 90% sure much of the colorism discussion online has been written and centered around black women. Just reading this excerpt from wkipedia sounds like what a black woman would say.



Doubly they misquote how many women are using "bleaching products" here by using that one survey based on a few hundred people in Lagos but this is how widespread misinformation can be in the "intellectual" sectors.

That’s the same thing like lightskin black people get lighter sentences. Because of a single “study” that was performed at a single prison and it was exclusively women. Yet people ran with for years now.

 

[Sterling Archer]

What’s crazy is I never even been called light skin till I joined this site and I joined in my 30s

Naw I def was called that. I’m one of those super lightskin nikkas. You used to be able to see veins in my face and my freckles.

 

[feelosofer]

It's not ok either way.

 

[ShaneTheRogue]

@BrothaZay fell off. Im starting think he really hates Black people including himself. I think it comes from the fact that he's a pansexual and feels resentment towards the Black community due to perceived homo and transphobia.

He was teased mercilessly in the early coli days about.

I think these constant stream of negative and often times ignorant threads is hos "get back"

Sad.