Whitney Houston was (relatively) dark, how did she make it?

[Queen]

smh @ people trying to deflect saying she wasn't dark skin


pretend this is light skin brehs:

pretend kelly rowland is that much darker brehs:

Cmon yall caught a L with this shyt. Arguably the biggest black female artist ever was dark skin (brown skin for you dumb nikkas trying use gradients )

Posting a picture where lighting has Whitney looking darker and Kelly looking lighter proves nothing. Furthermore, this thread is stupid. Worry about your skin color in relation to whether the sun likes it or not. *updates ignore list*

 

[JBoy]

I must have a different standard of dark because Whitney ain't dark to me

 

[Birdie]

Dark women really need to stop referring to themselves as "brown" it's just embarrassing. You have women the same complexion as Gabrielle Union and Kelly Rowland saying they aren't dark they're brown.

 

[Medulla Oblongata]

How about instead of that you eat the blackest part of my ass? Deal?

 

[feelosofer]

She was lightskinned.

 

[MoonGoddess]

Most of y'all are waiting for whites to give you something, and you use that excuse for why there isn't any work done. Ain't nobody gone do for you.

Why do some of you always assume we're waiting for anyone to give us anything when someone points out the effect of white supremacy on the race?

 

[KinksandCoils]

nikka they still brown. Retarded ass comment. If anything they are more brown than light skin people. do u know what a brown crayon looks like?

Dark women really need to stop referring to themselves as "brown" it's just embarrassing. You have women the same complexion as Gabrielle Union and Kelly Rowland saying they aren't dark they're brown.

 

[Dwayne_Taylor]

Whitney Houston was a star before the proliferation of cable television and social media. A pop stars "looks" didnt matter as much back then. They actually had to sell based on the strenght of their music back then not on image alone. that makes a difference

 

[Drake is God]

Why do some of you always assume we're waiting for anyone to give us anything when someone points out the effect of white supremacy on the race?

Because that's what it is. They don't like me because of my color... They won't let me into their movies because I'm black... Instead of doing for yourself y'all come on the coli with this toxic thinking and putting ideas into people's head that wasnt there before making them all paranoid..

 

[Will Ross]

Why do some of you always assume we're waiting for anyone to give us anything when someone points out the effect of white supremacy on the race?

The honest true we are the ones that keep colorism alive.

 

[13473]

it is disrespectful to actual dark skin people to erase them within their own race by referring to someone whitney's color as dark. Whitney is not dark for a black person or an african american.


whitney is brown/caramel AA. she's almost the same color as her black/italian dad
(both of her parents)

 

[Yehuda]

her black/italian dad

 

[Maximus]

Whitney was probably the greatest vocalist of all-time.

But yeah, I understand what you're getting at. Kelly Rowland blaming her lack of solo success on being dark-skinned is both ridiculous and pathetic. The fact is she just never had that "it" factor, and her discography sucks.

But I wouldn't want to ruin the pity-party here on The Coli.

 

[13473]

edit, not trying to derail

 

[Poitier]

Whitney Houston is lightskinned?