Like OP said colorism can be used as cop out/crutch by agenda-driven people, but it's definitely real.
Also btw @Prima Donna is a mixed multiracial hispanic from cali so that explains her Kehlani caping and unable to see colorism from y'all perspective as black women who may have actually had to endure it offline.
My mom is darkskin and the same complexion as Lupita, so I've been peeped what you're talking about and she put me on game at an early age.
Even then they're levels to what darker tone people experience because people like my mom who had thinner/sharper features than some of her cousins/sisters, didn't experience it as bad as her fam who had broader features that didn't adhere to the eurocentric beauty standard.
Word.A good looking Darkskin woman shouldn't have the same amount of simps as a weird looking light skin woman
Facts.Im comparing in general. Shes not dark shes brown. Perhaps Seven Streeter was a better example but @IllmaticDaughter made a great point
and subjective; preference in this conversation is dog-whistle
European Colonization fukked us up.
Lets be clear one thing
Black men, Black women, Black gay/str8/bi/trans, Black educated folks to high school drop out participated in colorism even on a subconscious level.
@Prima Donna so don't think Im jumping down your throat. Its all love sis![]()
Also btw @Prima Donna is a mixed multiracial hispanic from cali so that explains her Kehlani caping and unable to see colorism from y'all perspective as black women who may have actually had to endure it offline.

My mom is darkskin and the same complexion as Lupita, so I've been peeped what you're talking about and she put me on game at an early age.
Even then they're levels to what darker tone people experience because people like my mom who had thinner/sharper features than some of her cousins/sisters, didn't experience it as bad as her fam who had broader features that didn't adhere to the eurocentric beauty standard.