Which one of yall c00n ass nikkas grandads worked for Ebony Magazine
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606onit
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Neil Tyson
YYZ
It must be due to them being lightskin.
BelowTheMasonDixon
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Well yeah......"Are Negro Girls Getting Prettier"
and none of the chicks darker than a brown paper bag. I bet that shyt had folk heated with that issue.
Looks like they are to me:negro:
Box Cutta
Bumbling Sidekick
You can view a lot of old Jet and Ebony magazine covers and ads here at this (great) flickr account :
I get a sense that we often look at this "light skin privilege" as some sort of modern invention (I often here rappers rightfully getting flack for it), but honestly, looking through this account, it seems pretty obvious that this has always happened...might have been even worst back then. Lots of Rashida Jones and Alicia Keys lookin' types on these covers that maintain to be about "Negros".
Edit : Don't let that stop you from enjoying the history though. I love looking through old photos of us.
I get a sense that we often look at this "light skin privilege" as some sort of modern invention (I often here rappers rightfully getting flack for it), but honestly, looking through this account, it seems pretty obvious that this has always happened...might have been even worst back then. Lots of Rashida Jones and Alicia Keys lookin' types on these covers that maintain to be about "Negros".
Edit : Don't let that stop you from enjoying the history though. I love looking through old photos of us.
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Busted_Toes
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BelowTheMasonDixon
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And a lot of them are Black, yall dudes is funny. Plenty of light skinned red bros and sis round here with black mothers and black fathers.
Ricky Church
Stole Timberlake's Spaceship-Coupe
got-damn! 
did black women start straightening their hair in 66? at least one of them should have a fro 
