My grandma just told me I shouldn't have trouble finding a woman because of my "color"

[O.T.I.S.]

shyt had me at the same time



Old school folks be on that honestly and I think it's most black ppl's issues. She mentioned a few other things but that was the main thing that stuck with me. I immediately thought of The Coli


I'm kinda like because lil does she know, lightskin isn't "in" anymore

 

[Ronnie Lott]

Bruh, no disrespect, but your grams is on some bullshyt. And you are too sayin shyt like "lightskin isn't "in" anymore"

 

[killacal]

Your moms momma aint shyt

 

[marcuz]

hate to say it but old folks can be some natural fukkin c00ns

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Bruh, no disrespect, but your grams is on some bullshyt. And you are too sayin shyt like "lightskin isn't "in" anymore"

My grams old school... deep south color struck. I can't change that shyt even if I tried. She stuck in her ways

Your moms momma aint shyt

Spoiler

hate to say it but old folks can be some natural fukkin c00ns

Nah she's mixed af from the deep DEEP south... her views came from her experiences growing up. She has ZERO love for dark nikkas or white people

 

[newworldafro]

I bet your Grandma had a paper bag in her hand when she told you this too didn't she

The irony of paper bag testing is that this is the natural color of wood pulp for paper/cardboard. To get that shiny white look, it has to be bleached.

 

[O.T.I.S.]

I bet your Grandma had a paper bag in her hand when she told you this too didn't she

The irony of paper bag testing is that this is the natural color of wood pulp for paper/cardboard. To get that shiny white look, it has to be bleached.

I never even heard of this


It's just different experiences. She's lived 3 time longer than I have man. Back in her days that color shyt was SERIOUS. She's mixed, black and native and my grandad (her husband) is black/white.. growing up in the deep south they went through shyt from every race. Her hate for EVERYONE is strong unless you fam. Thats where I get my "idgaf what race you are if you don't fukk with me" mentality..

She used to get shyt from both sides so she got this thickass skin. Strongest woman I've ever met really... and she didn't make the shyt up thats her opnion from her perspective so I'm not gonna say shyt. I just be like "Nahhhh grandma idk about that "

 

[newworldafro]

I never even heard of this


It's just different experiences. She's lived 3 time longer than I have man. Back in her days that color shyt was SERIOUS. She's mixed, black and native and my grandad (her husband) is black/white.. growing up in the deep south they went through shyt from every race. Her hate for EVERYONE is strong unless you fam. Thats where I get my "idgaf what race you are if you don't fukk with me" mentality..

She used to get shyt from both sides so she got this thickass skin. Strongest woman I've ever met really... and she didn't make the shyt up thats her opnion from her perspective so I'm not gonna say shyt. I just be like "Nahhhh grandma idk about that "

Not hating on your grandma breh....that's a beautiful thing to have her around

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_bag_party

Paper bag parties were African-American social events at which only individuals with complexions at least as light as the color of a brown paper bag were admitted. The term also refers to larger issues of class andcaste within the African-American population.


After the Civil War[edit]
When four million slaves were emancipated and granted citizenship in the South, new issues arose both for whites and for free people of color. When slavery ended, some free people of color, especially those who were called "old Issue" for having been free long before the war, resisted being grouped with the freedmen. They created social organizations that excluded darker blacks, as they assumed that this group had just been released from slavery. The free people of color were proud of their education and property rights. This is an example of within-race colorism. These practices have remained in modern society today.

20th century[edit]
From 1900 until about 1950 in the larger black neighborhoods of major American cities, "paper bag parties" are said to have taken place. Some organizations used the "brown paper bag" principle as a test for entrance. People at many churches, fraternities and nightclubs would take a brown paper bag and hold it against a person's skin. If a person was lighter or the same color as the bag, he or she was admitted. People whose skin was not lighter than a brown paper bag were denied entry.[5]

There is, too, a curious color dynamic that sadly persists in our culture. In fact, New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party — usually at a gathering in a home — where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life. On my many trips to New Orleans, whether to lecture at one of its universities or colleges, to preach from one of its pulpits, or to speak at an empowerment seminar during the annual Essence Music Festival, I have observed color politics at work among black folk. The cruel color code has to be defeated by our love for one another. —Michael Eric Dyson, excerpt from Come Hell or High Water.[6]

 

[BlaKcMoney]

My grams old school... deep south color struck. I can't change that shyt even if I tried. She stuck in her ways

Maybe she knows what she is talking about

 

[Gully Bull]

In reality, she prolly mentioned you were smart, athletic, had a good heart, knew how to save lives, a solid hairline,but you only heard you had a nice skin complexion

 

[-----]

shyt had me at the same time



Old school folks be on that honestly and I think it's most black ppl's issues. She mentioned a few other things but that was the main thing that stuck with me. I immediately thought of The Coli


I'm kinda like because lil does she know, lightskin isn't "in" anymore

Then make it work for you fam

 

[Dragonfly Jones]

ur grandmothers a c00n bro

no disrespect to u but u gotta call a spade a spade

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Not hating on your grandma breh....that's a beautiful thing to have her around

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_bag_party

Paper bag parties were African-American social events at which only individuals with complexions at least as light as the color of a brown paper bag were admitted. The term also refers to larger issues of class andcaste within the African-American population.


After the Civil War[edit]
When four million slaves were emancipated and granted citizenship in the South, new issues arose both for whites and for free people of color. When slavery ended, some free people of color, especially those who were called "old Issue" for having been free long before the war, resisted being grouped with the freedmen. They created social organizations that excluded darker blacks, as they assumed that this group had just been released from slavery. The free people of color were proud of their education and property rights. This is an example of within-race colorism. These practices have remained in modern society today.

20th century[edit]
From 1900 until about 1950 in the larger black neighborhoods of major American cities, "paper bag parties" are said to have taken place. Some organizations used the "brown paper bag" principle as a test for entrance. People at many churches, fraternities and nightclubs would take a brown paper bag and hold it against a person's skin. If a person was lighter or the same color as the bag, he or she was admitted. People whose skin was not lighter than a brown paper bag were denied entry.[5]

There is, too, a curious color dynamic that sadly persists in our culture. In fact, New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party — usually at a gathering in a home — where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life. On my many trips to New Orleans, whether to lecture at one of its universities or colleges, to preach from one of its pulpits, or to speak at an empowerment seminar during the annual Essence Music Festival, I have observed color politics at work among black folk. The cruel color code has to be defeated by our love for one another. —Michael Eric Dyson, excerpt from Come Hell or High Water.[6]

Nah I doubt she would participate in that. She WANTED to live in the country.. Like the COUNTRY country away from everyone.. she genuinely hates people. But she will have my back in any situation and has proven that to me against anyone including family...

She's always taken my side. I guess I was the favorite which did piss my siblings and cousins off but no one liked me that much but her

Maybe she knows what she is talking about

I think she does... there's a truth behind her beliefs. So I laugh it off but I be like damn... shyt was really cut throat back in the days

In reality, she prolly mentioned you were smart, athletic, had a good heart, knew how to save lives, a solid hairline,but you only heard you had a nice skin complexion

Maybe.. but the word "color" had me like

 

[O.T.I.S.]

ur grandmothers a c00n bro

no disrespect to u but u gotta call a spade a spade

Can't be a c00n if you hate everybody


she just calls it like she see's it... doesn't pull any punches and because shes this lil old lady, there's nothing anyone gonna do about it (especially if I'm around ). I don't thnk she's even been outside unless it was a doctors appointment since the 90's.. so I let her cook. No one agrees woth her but she doesn't give a fukk



She told me to shut the fukk up once as a kid...verbatim.. it was like venom from a snake... I never crossed her again

 

[GodsPerspective]

Can't be a c00n if you hate everybody


she just calls it like she see's it... doesn't pull any punches and because shes this lil old lady, there's nothing anyone gonna do about it (especially if I'm around ). I don't thnk she's even been outside unless it was a doctors appointment since the 90's.. so I let her cook. No one agrees woth her but she doesn't give a fukk



She told me to shut the fukk up once as a kid...verbatim.. it was like venom from a snake... I never crossed her again

You lost for having a grandma that thinks like that. No wonder our generation is fukked when these are the people teaching their children this nonsense.