The fact that we are still trying to assign our colorism is how I know that this will still be an issue for generations even though we are talking about in the good nature.
Her internal turmoil is evident when she feels the need to correct a comment like this. She may have had additional comments that merited a response, but she made her choice.
Why would she be offended by being called chocolate (a general term for blackness) to the point where you’d have to correct it. In general this is so dumb. In any circle she would be considered brown. She is not a light skinned woman. Man the colonizers really did a number on us
I am guy and I never looked at her as being caramel EVER! I have always saw a rich and beautiful DARK brown complexion that of chocolate 🍫. It is what set her apart from Lisa and Tionne her complexion and dark features. Would she be considered dark skin NO but Dark brown YES. I agree the correction seems to be from some form of colorism because chocolate itself comes in many shades...
Chili, no matter what you wanna call yourself, you are still black and always will be. Become a rebel for a real cause. Caramel, brown, light skinned, etc etc. you're black Chili, ok, it's alright to be black. You can't change that.
@@shawneetate121 She's not. Her father is not full Indian lol... No different than other black people with other lineage like myself. She is delusional.
But why are people so bothered by what this woman thinks of herself????seems to me the people that are bothered have the issue....smh....love yourself and u wont be bothered by what other people think of themselves....
“Whose thumb is that?” 😂 I believe Chili suffers from colorism. I don’t think she was being facetious. I don’t see how the comment required clarification. Chocolate is a general term for black people from the lightest to the darkest.
Colorism and can't keep a man-ism. Now....does every woman need or want a man.... maybe not. But we know that she tries and hasn't had much success. Her issues are definitely in her mirror looking at her everyday.
I'm chestnut 🌰 brown & my dear vanilla colored Mama used to say that she "Egyptian gold" colored! Shebecame an ancestor last August & I miss seeing her "Egyptian gold" hued face. I'm much darker aka tanned in the summer, YAY! So glad that our people belong to the Most High's human garden. Shalom 🦁 all.
Y'all are a trip! Super funny! I was in a Lidl food market the other day and they had Crayola people of color crayons! I was like "oh snap!" Who knew!? Obviously not me😅
I sometimes wonder what God must be thinking about the small minded people that most of us have become to carry on with this kind of mindset is appalling to say the least , especially when we have much more serious topics, God help us we truly do need it.
My Nana said I was a beautiful honey brown growing up ❤️I use to, when buying foundation products taupe was the color. We come in the most beautiful colors all are a blessing, love us🌸🌸🥰
Why are we branding ourselves in my opinion it's not a good thing here is why because in Africa there is a problem with colorism which hss lead to some people in Africa have resulted bleaching their skins and I have seen the damage it has done the skins. I
I remember when I was young, I would be offended if someone called me white. Most of my childhood, I thought I was brownskinned. When I became a teenager, I realized I was lightskin, not brownskin. Growing up in the 80s, people made fun of light-skinned Black people.
Colorism exists heavily, only the lightest of us chose to “claim” a darker hue…because culturally, dark is unattractive, specifically in women! THUS why some women have a complex about it.
its just like is nature, organic and inorganic elements that are darker in hue do not rot as fast as those the sun can destroy with sun rays. All hues derived from the deepest hue. its the only one that can be diluted derived multiplied and still being called dark.
I always thought of myself as medium brown--and then someone called me high yellow. And then some people thought I was mixed with a typically lighter ethnicity (I'm average Black American, acknowledging the history of that dna.). Each person can see what they want.
Silly me but I thought all women had different shades of foundation and powder.. My mom, aunts, grandmothers all had different shades...and they packed different shades depending on lighting and different locals. I got spoiled and trained to appreciate your comment.
@@deancoffer6827 It has taken me a long time to find make up brands that match my complexion ( I have lots of freckles) and don’t break me out. I stick to what works, I don’t try or buy unless I my brand is discontinued. I hope that makes sense.
I'm proud to be a chocolate man. I'm not dark dark, but I'm a snicker bar complexion. I'm a solid brown guy. People get frustrated with me because I consider myself dark skinned.
Ask this question. How many what's perceived to be darkskinned females that are celebrities go around exhaulting the virtues of their skin color as beneficial to their careers. Even Viola Davis has spoken on the issue of her insecurities she felt as a woman because of the darkness of her skin. In this society the closer one is to whiteness the more benefits one receives because of it. I just revisited the original Color Purple throughout it Celie was called black and or ugly as tools to beat her down however Shug who was maybe one shade lighter than Celie was considered beautiful. I firmly believe Chili's statement was very much intentional because consciously or not she did not want to be labeled in that box and all that goes along with such a distinction. Words have power and the difference between chocolate and caramel is an important one especially for her.
It's ridiculously that she feels the need to correct this. Chocolate is a term use for all us black people, wether if you're dark, light or brown that's how some people refer to us. Chocolate 🍫🍫
Why the strict delineation?...I don't encourage it..the black paper bag test is disgusting as it further divides us. Yes, obviously we present in varying shades and that is beautiful. However the 'others' use these nuances to separate us.
lol, I go a shade darker on the emojis too, because I’d rather go darker and people say that is not your skin tone than go my skin tone or lighter (there is not an exact match to my skin) and have some think I have a problem with my color or am trying to lighten myself, albeit virtually 😁
Chili was/is the darkest original member in TLC and dealt with whatever that represented. If people really could get into Kelly Rowlands head on the issue also would be fascinating. I guarantee you she has thoughts on the issue.
This conversation is so cringe but accurate. Im such a hypocrite because im so intune to every joke, nuance, weird feeling Karen and the panel were having while saying the cringy stuff they were saying.🤦🏿♀️ I so understand all the feeling of cognitive dissonance experienced in this clip. We go be alright though. Its family talk. Not brown skin erasure 😖 😆.
Look at the three beautiful shades on that screen. Anywho, its ok if she wants to clarify "or be funny" about correcting the labeling. Lets be honest, it wouldnt have been a problem if someone one called her caramel and she corrected and said chocolate. We would be support that. Let ppl live their life without it triggering you, if you love YOU. Love, Your Chocolate Sista
We gotta check our sensitivity to our trauma. Not everything is colorist nor racist, for that matter. Chili is not colorist, it was a tongue-in-cheek response. I wouldn’t classify her as “chocolate” either.
Folks can't make up their minds. People were outraged for a minute when multiracial or biracial folks were calling themselves black now chili says caramel and people want to fall out. I say let folks identify how they want to. My Mom was dark skinned and i am creme brulee. 😂
If Denzel, Washington is chocolate, then what is Wesley Snipes ? Colorism has a terrible history throughout the world. Black is beautiful no matter what shade it is . ❤
Her opinion of herself??? If she says she's caramel, it isn't an opinion. That's the shade she identifies with. And nobody would care if you were offended...about the way SHE describes HERSELF.
@@TheCallowayBride wow! Are u Chilli???😂😂😂 obviously “12” other people liked my comment and agreed with me! 😂😂 not sure why u came for me but go back and hide under your rock .
This opens a whole can of worms about how so many Black people have no respect or love of who they/we are. I have a niece that was going around telling folks she was Dominican...EYE-ROLL. Our family is BLACK from North and South Carolina. My grandfather who was part Native American always told his children and grandchildren, "You can be proud to be part Indian (that was the term he and others used back in the day) but the world will see you as Black and I never want you to hate being Black or having Indian. But you will be perceived as Black." I have other family memebers that feel that as Black people we have no culture. I tell them constantly..."WE ARE THE CULTURE! We made America what it is in terms of culture!" This was a hilraious discussion and NOPE, not mad at Chili.
Raenett, just wondering how can your niece lie about being Dominicana when she clearly has a non Spanish name and especially a non Hispano afflicted accent. As someone with continental african roots ( I am Swati with Zulu heritage) I feel like African americans have a general african base culturally and then rich bits of various african cultural heritages . its a rich capsule, truly . When i went to the US for a school exchange i spent 2 months with a Creole family from Lousiana. It was literally as if i was living within a continental african family. all the codes of respect and family gathering and socialized chatter were the exact saaaaame . many years later i spent Thanksgiving with a regular african american family . The only difference with the creole family was the accents and regional patterns of thinking but even then it felt as i was operating within an african family. I got to know the entire larger family also . The advantage in both is that i could detect traits i recognized in my fam both super positive and toxic ones. We all have this duality. The toxic ones that are identical to the ones i noticed back home really took me by surprise. I really wondered how it was possible .
I refer to most Black women in my personal vernacular as "Coco" and "honeys" as both can come in a variety of shades depending on the mix and/or the source; but that's just me. I love them all, but have a preference for that deep, dark Coco.
The entertainment industry, media and social media do seem to ignore brown skinned. In the black community we identify as dark skinned, brown skinned and light skinned. Even within those categories, there are various shades.
Chcolate and caramel are both beautiful shades that we come in and everything in between. The range of shades we each become from winter to summer are nothing short of spectacular! The backlash she received for correcting the commenter on how she self identifies is one more example of the emotional effects of racism and colorism. We live in the world now where more people are speaking out on how they self identify (e.g., gender, etc.) and will quickly correct those who say different. Because of the trauma racism created and still creates, her correcting someone about how she views her own shade (which is her business) comes with some backlash. As for how I feel, my emotional reaction was "does she see chocooate as less than?", but my next reaction was "it's her business". Also, some of the backlash may be coming from trolls.
I am in the middle too! Some people start calling me light skinned and that is so weird to me. I have yellow undertones so in harsh lighting I come off lighter.
Mad? Not us. Our families have so many different shades we look like the league of nations. Children and young adults have shade issues. It's insecurity. Y'all making whole new identities based on shade. "Colorism." You don't have enough problems.
If being of a darker skin tone wasn’t programmed and socialized into our minds as being less than, Chilli would have no problem with being called chocolate. We all know there are different shades of Black. Unless you’re Beyoncé ‘s complexion or anyone else on the lighter end of the complexion palette, theres no sense for a Black person to be correcting others just because they’re being called the wrong shade of Black. 😂
Yes, Chocolate is just one of the beautiful shades we come in along with caramel and everything in between. Correcting someone about her color could be colorisim, or it could be that she knows we do come in all shades and hers is caramel (as she identifies). Few people like to be corrected, but when it comes to how people self identifies, they will correct someone quick.
Chili has made colorist comments before this. The fact she felt a way to correct the chocolate comment says something. And the lady (light skin ) saying the beauty of black people is the color diversity, um doesn't it depend on WHY we are different shades? Many reasons for it are horrible, criminal. I dont like being called chocolate it is fetishist.
I STILL call myself chocolate, and I have been starting to wonder if comparing myself to food (no matter how decadent) is toxic. It is such a point of pride for me, I even used to dress up as a bunny for Halloween (as a private joke…but still😬)…I always say we are never to old to change our minds or our ways….stay tuned! 🤷🏾♀️
Emojis perpetuate race, ethnicity, gender identity & expression, religion, sexual orientation, class, socioeconomic status, age, native language, disability status, citizenship and colorism. Why willingly opt for all of that on SM? It doesn't make sense. We have an opportunity to simply be and we are choosing categories. Don't fall for it. Come on ya'll. Wake up.
First of all ! Every one of all ethnicities and races come in different shades of skin tones! I don’t know why we keep having this stupid conversation! Chili is a brown girl. If she wants to figure at her exact shade, she needs to take her ass to the MAC counter and they would gladly help her! I would describe myself as brown! My skin tone is Almond Mocha with pinkish red undertones!
This is episode is REALLY petty for old @ss black Gen-Xers. When we have nothing of substance to discuss, default to the minstrel show. Geez this makes us look BAAAAAAD! 🙄🙄🙄 "Where de bahbucue and mac n cheese at!!!"
What is dark skinned energy versus light skinned energy? How is that energy expressed especially when you're a black woman? Would be interesting to explore this further.
I know EXACTLY what they are….we all know it has nothing to actually do with the color of the skin, but the social experience AND a cellular memory which informs us of where we “fit” in the “hierarchy”. It is of course based on stereotypes, but every stereotype has its roots in the history of the targeted individual. I know what it means, but I hate those terms so very much. We have so much work to do.👀
Perhaps Chili’ commenter should have said milk chocolate. My sister who is Chili’s complexion labels herself pecan or walnut brown 😂😂😂 I just say girl let me know which box you checking on the census?
The fact that we are still trying to assign our colorism is how I know that this will still be an issue for generations even though we are talking about in the good nature.
This convo was problematic. Echos of colorism all up and through, even with the enlightened ones! Embrace your face!
Her internal turmoil is evident when she feels the need to correct a comment like this. She may have had additional comments that merited a response, but she made her choice.
Why would she be offended by being called chocolate (a general term for blackness) to the point where you’d have to correct it. In general this is so dumb. In any circle she would be considered brown. She is not a light skinned woman. Man the colonizers really did a number on us
Exactly internalized hatred
She does that with a lot of things when people comment on things she post, instead of overlooking it, it like she can't just let some things slide
Yep, they did a real number on us anytime she felt she had to so called “correct” them regarding the color of her skin🙄
Mainly in the people who think like her.
I am guy and I never looked at her as being caramel EVER! I have always saw a rich and beautiful DARK brown complexion that of chocolate 🍫. It is what set her apart from Lisa and Tionne her complexion and dark features. Would she be considered dark skin NO but Dark brown YES. I agree the correction seems to be from some form of colorism because chocolate itself comes in many shades...
Chili, no matter what you wanna call yourself, you are still black and always will be. Become a rebel for a real cause. Caramel, brown, light skinned, etc etc. you're black Chili, ok, it's alright to be black. You can't change that.
That part.
💯agree. We come in all shades. Just be proud to be Black.
Chili is BIRACIAL, not Black. Y'all are always trying to claim BIRACIAL women because y'all are so insecure.
It's alright to be a Passport, BLK females can't change that 🤣🤣
@@shawneetate121 She's not. Her father is not full Indian lol... No different than other black people with other lineage like myself. She is delusional.
Church pantyhose brown??? Y'all are hilarious🤣🤣🤣🤣☠☠☠
🤣🤣🤣
You gave this conversation the seriousness it deserved. Thank you for showing people sometimes you need to just be easy.
Exactly.
Right because during the summer, I’m Neapolitan I got 3 different shades going on
But why are people so bothered by what this woman thinks of herself????seems to me the people that are bothered have the issue....smh....love yourself and u wont be bothered by what other people think of themselves....
Amen to that!!
LOL. Chili - Me No Black!!
Validation
“Whose thumb is that?” 😂
I believe Chili suffers from colorism. I don’t think she was being facetious. I don’t see how the comment required clarification. Chocolate is a general term for black people from the lightest to the darkest.
Colorism and can't keep a man-ism. Now....does every woman need or want a man.... maybe not. But we know that she tries and hasn't had much success. Her issues are definitely in her mirror looking at her everyday.
Chocolate is only used when people perceive you as dark skin let’s be real.
People are funny. Chili - Me No Black!!
I'm chestnut 🌰 brown & my dear vanilla colored Mama used to say that she "Egyptian gold" colored! Shebecame an ancestor last August & I miss seeing her "Egyptian gold" hued face. I'm much darker aka tanned in the summer, YAY! So glad that our people belong to the Most High's human garden. Shalom 🦁 all.
Wow! Who really cares? Caramel is a lot darker than one thinks.
Right😂
Exactly!! you can simply google a picture of caramel and see how it looks.
Do people know what Shades caramel comes in.😂 (4 at least)
Right😂🤣😂
Exactly!
Exactly!!! My people my people
I like how blackish did it. We come in all shades from Mariah to Wesley and all the shades in between
I like that 😊
😂
And Wesley isn’t even the darkest of our shades.
Mariah Is Biracial
Y'all are a trip! Super funny! I was in a Lidl food market the other day and they had Crayola people of color crayons! I was like "oh snap!" Who knew!? Obviously not me😅
I sometimes wonder what God must be thinking about the small minded people that most of us have become to carry on with this kind of mindset is appalling to say the least , especially when we have much more serious topics, God help us we truly do need it.
My Nana said I was a beautiful honey brown growing up ❤️I use to, when buying foundation products taupe was the color. We come in the most beautiful colors all are a blessing, love us🌸🌸🥰
Why are we branding ourselves in my opinion it's not a good thing here is why because in Africa there is a problem with colorism which hss lead to some people in Africa have resulted bleaching their skins and I have seen the damage it has done the skins. I
I remember when I was young, I would be offended if someone called me white. Most of my childhood, I thought I was brownskinned. When I became a teenager, I realized I was lightskin, not brownskin. Growing up in the 80s, people made fun of light-skinned Black people.
Colorism is still an issue
Colorism exists heavily, only the lightest of us chose to “claim” a darker hue…because culturally, dark is unattractive, specifically in women! THUS why some women have a complex about it.
I am like Karen. I would like to believe I am darker than I really am. 😂
its just like is nature, organic and inorganic elements that are darker in hue do not rot as fast as those the sun can destroy with sun rays. All hues derived from the deepest hue. its the only one that can be diluted derived multiplied and still being called dark.
I always thought of myself as medium brown--and then someone called me high yellow. And then some people thought I was mixed with a typically lighter ethnicity (I'm average Black American, acknowledging the history of that dna.). Each person can see what they want.
I'm caramel isn't it still in the dark shade 🙄 who cares
I have two sets of foundation and powder for winter and summer!
Chile yes 😂
Silly me but I thought all women had different shades of foundation and powder.. My mom, aunts, grandmothers all had different shades...and they packed different shades depending on lighting and different locals. I got spoiled and trained to appreciate your comment.
@@deancoffer6827 It has taken me a long time to find make up brands that match my complexion ( I have lots of freckles) and don’t break me out. I stick to what works, I don’t try or buy unless I my brand is discontinued. I hope that makes sense.
@@deancoffer6827 I hav sensitive skin, so if a brand works for me, I stick with it until it is discontinued.
Me too...
I'm proud to be a chocolate man. I'm not dark dark, but I'm a snicker bar complexion. I'm a solid brown guy. People get frustrated with me because I consider myself dark skinned.
Chilli was clearly the darkest member of TLC by at least 2 shades. She's barely caramel! Lolol
But go on!
Maybe that's why she's sensitive about it. She has made comments before about her complexion that indicate she has an issue with her hue.
I was hoping I wasn’t the one who peeped this 😂 I need her to look in the mirror again!
*only one who…
Ask this question. How many what's perceived to be darkskinned females that are celebrities go around exhaulting the virtues of their skin color as beneficial to their careers. Even Viola Davis has spoken on the issue of her insecurities she felt as a woman because of the darkness of her skin. In this society the closer one is to whiteness the more benefits one receives because of it. I just revisited the original Color Purple throughout it Celie was called black and or ugly as tools to beat her down however Shug who was maybe one shade lighter than Celie was considered beautiful. I firmly believe Chili's statement was very much intentional because consciously or not she did not want to be labeled in that box and all that goes along with such a distinction. Words have power and the difference between chocolate and caramel is an important one especially for her.
Agree with your comments. We're not surprised that she's dating a non melinated person.
@@juanita1176 Who Chili dates is her business.
Who cares. She is Caramel. So am I. Big deal. NEXT TOPIC!
Where is she caramel?
It's ridiculously that she feels the need to correct this. Chocolate is a term use for all us black people, wether if you're dark, light or brown that's how some people refer to us. Chocolate 🍫🍫
maybe she was being cheeky. do we have to be offended by everything? And is she the culture leader that matters?
Why the strict delineation?...I don't encourage it..the black paper bag test is disgusting as it further divides us. Yes, obviously we present in varying shades and that is beautiful. However the 'others' use these nuances to separate us.
the colorism is real
lol, I go a shade darker on the emojis too, because I’d rather go darker and people say that is not your skin tone than go my skin tone or lighter (there is not an exact match to my skin) and have some think I have a problem with my color or am trying to lighten myself, albeit virtually 😁
Chili was/is the darkest original member in TLC and dealt with whatever that represented. If people really could get into Kelly Rowlands head on the issue also would be fascinating. I guarantee you she has thoughts on the issue.
Chili is a mixed woman Kelly rowland is not. They are not the same phenotypically.😊
Right. Beyoncé and she perform a video about it; I think its called Brown girl.
@@cutiepiea3687people are brushing over this part.
@@Magique88888 and it’s pissing me off! Like stop relying on mixed women whether light or dark to represent y’all.
Toasted French vanilla over here.
🤣😂😂This was hilarious! Enjoyed the discussion; especially when we can laugh at ourselves without being offended.
This conversation is so cringe but accurate. Im such a hypocrite because im so intune to every joke, nuance, weird feeling Karen and the panel were having while saying the cringy stuff they were saying.🤦🏿♀️ I so understand all the feeling of cognitive dissonance experienced in this clip. We go be alright though. Its family talk.
Not brown skin erasure 😖 😆.
Look at the three beautiful shades on that screen. Anywho, its ok if she wants to clarify "or be funny" about correcting the labeling. Lets be honest, it wouldnt have been a problem if someone one called her caramel and she corrected and said chocolate. We would be support that. Let ppl live their life without it triggering you, if you love YOU.
Love,
Your Chocolate Sista
I relate to Lamont's sister: in my mental picture my complection is darker than my actual skin tone.
We gotta check our sensitivity to our trauma. Not everything is colorist nor racist, for that matter. Chili is not colorist, it was a tongue-in-cheek response. I wouldn’t classify her as “chocolate” either.
I completely agree!!
I’m offended, why make a differentiation
Chili isn't Caramel, Rhianna is.
Rhianna is light caramel
@@mynameisstacey6217 In the winter, I agree...
I was okay at the beginning but half way through this conversation made me feel real uncomfortable.
good. This is a Foolishness Friday...that was the point.
Denzel is lighter than Viola Davis. And being dark skinned does matter. Dark skinned people are treated more poorly, especially by other blacks.
I love our rain bow of colors it’s amazing what God did ❤️🙏🏾
Chili will fail the paper bag test, but she will pass the TEXTURISM test…👀
she passes the FEATURISM test also . so its 7/10 and she can waltz pass the gate.
Why can't we just get along! Micah 6:8
The conversation about using a lighter shade emoji took me out because remember choosing which shade I wanted to use LOL
Folks can't make up their minds. People were outraged for a minute when multiracial or biracial folks were calling themselves black now chili says caramel and people want to fall out. I say let folks identify how they want to. My Mom was dark skinned and i am creme brulee. 😂
People love to come up with new ways to be offended.
This entire conversation is so relatable and gave me the giggles. ✊🏽
Chilli is already dated a whyte guy so but to say caramel instead of chocolate is giving me colorist vibe.
If Denzel, Washington is chocolate, then what is Wesley Snipes ? Colorism has a terrible history throughout the world.
Black is beautiful no matter what shade it is . ❤
I had the same question.
Agreed…
I thought colorism was slowly fading away but it’s still very much alive.
I’m not offended. She entitled to her opinion.
Her opinion of herself??? If she says she's caramel, it isn't an opinion. That's the shade she identifies with. And nobody would care if you were offended...about the way SHE describes HERSELF.
@@TheCallowayBride wow! Are u Chilli???😂😂😂 obviously “12” other people liked my comment and agreed with me! 😂😂 not sure why u came for me but go back and hide under your rock .
This opens a whole can of worms about how so many Black people have no respect or love of who they/we are. I have a niece that was going around telling folks she was Dominican...EYE-ROLL. Our family is BLACK from North and South Carolina. My grandfather who was part Native American always told his children and grandchildren, "You can be proud to be part Indian (that was the term he and others used back in the day) but the world will see you as Black and I never want you to hate being Black or having Indian. But you will be perceived as Black." I have other family memebers that feel that as Black people we have no culture. I tell them constantly..."WE ARE THE CULTURE! We made America what it is in terms of culture!" This was a hilraious discussion and NOPE, not mad at Chili.
Raenett, just wondering how can your niece lie about being Dominicana when she clearly has a non Spanish name and especially a non Hispano afflicted accent.
As someone with continental african roots ( I am Swati with Zulu heritage) I feel like African americans have a general african base culturally and then rich bits of various african cultural heritages . its a rich capsule, truly . When i went to the US for a school exchange i spent 2 months with a Creole family from Lousiana. It was literally as if i was living within a continental african family. all the codes of respect and family gathering and socialized chatter were the exact saaaaame .
many years later i spent Thanksgiving with a regular african american family . The only difference with the creole family was the accents and regional patterns of thinking but even then it felt as i was operating within an african family. I got to know the entire larger family also . The advantage in both is that i could detect traits i recognized in my fam both super positive and toxic ones. We all have this duality. The toxic ones that are identical to the ones i noticed back home really took me by surprise. I really wondered how it was possible .
That same argument hapns in my family but we r always wanting to go shades darker. I’m with u on the emojis 👍🏽🙏🏽🫶🏽
You Cats are crazy. I do feel some kind of way when folks emojis don’t match their complexion. WOW, I thought it was just me.
Our range of beauty is funny but true. 😂😊 the emoji is a great example. 👍🏿
Chili is BIRACIAL, not Black. Stop trying to claim biracial women as black. Y'all are so insecure.😂
This is funny, especially after the A Rod pictures.
I refer to most Black women in my personal vernacular as "Coco" and "honeys" as both can come in a variety of shades depending on the mix and/or the source; but that's just me. I love them all, but have a preference for that deep, dark Coco.
The old school church lady stockings = red fox. 😊
It didn't escape ME, Prof!! I heard you say, you're coming to work in "black-face"! 😏🤭 B1❤ FOREVER!
Sounds like Billy D Williams on the View when he corrected Sonny and said he was brown not black.😊
The entertainment industry, media and social media do seem to ignore brown skinned. In the black community we identify as dark skinned, brown skinned and light skinned. Even within those categories, there are various shades.
I love the children's book The Color of Us
I still do that now. Betta not call me lightskinDED
😂😂😂😂y'all are HILARIOUS..Love it
All my life, to this day because for a long time I was the lightest person in my family. And much lighter than I feel😂
Chcolate and caramel are both beautiful shades that we come in and everything in between. The range of shades we each become from winter to summer are nothing short of spectacular! The backlash she received for correcting the commenter on how she self identifies is one more example of the emotional effects of racism and colorism. We live in the world now where more people are speaking out on how they self identify (e.g., gender, etc.) and will quickly correct those who say different. Because of the trauma racism created and still creates, her correcting someone about how she views her own shade (which is her business) comes with some backlash. As for how I feel, my emotional reaction was "does she see chocooate as less than?", but my next reaction was "it's her business". Also, some of the backlash may be coming from trolls.
Chilli is chocolate
I love Chilli ❤
It’s all pink on the inside 😂
WE HAVE MAJOR ISSUES TO ADDRESS THAN COLOR
I loved the pantyhose comment!!! If you were darker, pantyhose colors were challenging!!!
I also think the person who posted it meant ‘chocolate’ as in black folk, not a shade.
This is ridiculous…it didn’t require her to be specific. Plus y’all are justifying her being colorist.
we are having fun on a #FoolishnessFriday! IYKYK!
Omg! Lamont with the emoji comment …💀 Damn funny cause I hate that too!!! “Who is that?? 👍🏿
Keri Hilson corrected Chelsea Handler in the same manner its silly and I have never looked st Chili as caramel ever. Tboz is caramel to me.
and Left Eye, too.
She is dark skinned. Lol, she is chocolate to me.
Riiiight Rod!!! I am in the middle and gets no respect! 😂
I am in the middle too! Some people start calling me light skinned and that is so weird to me. I have yellow undertones so in harsh lighting I come off lighter.
😂 am yet to visit USA but my people please stop. Come to South Africa, Ethiopia etc across Africa and see what caramel really looks like 😅
"Dark skin energy" 😂😂❤
How do you get different color emojis? Id like to properly represent!!!😂😂😂
Interesting convo, lol! I usually just use the first emoji, I’ma change that 😅
Mad? Not us. Our families have so many different shades we look like the league of nations. Children and young adults have shade issues. It's insecurity. Y'all making whole new identities based on shade. "Colorism." You don't have enough problems.
we are having fun on a #FoolihsnessFriday because that's what we do on a Friday. IYKYK
If being of a darker skin tone wasn’t programmed and socialized into our minds as being less than, Chilli would have no problem with being called chocolate.
We all know there are different shades of Black. Unless you’re Beyoncé ‘s complexion or anyone else on the lighter end of the complexion palette, theres no sense for a Black person to be correcting others just because they’re being called the wrong shade of Black. 😂
Yes, Chocolate is just one of the beautiful shades we come in along with caramel and everything in between. Correcting someone about her color could be colorisim, or it could be that she knows we do come in all shades and hers is caramel (as she identifies). Few people like to be corrected, but when it comes to how people self identifies, they will correct someone quick.
Work Slack emoji’s!😂
Chili has made colorist comments before this. The fact she felt a way to correct the chocolate comment says something. And the lady (light skin ) saying the beauty of black people is the color diversity, um doesn't it depend on WHY we are different shades? Many reasons for it are horrible, criminal. I dont like being called chocolate it is fetishist.
Do you get offended when black women buy make-up and the manufacturer refers to black women's skin tone as food or paint?
I STILL call myself chocolate, and I have been starting to wonder if comparing myself to food (no matter how decadent) is toxic. It is such a point of pride for me, I even used to dress up as a bunny for Halloween (as a private joke…but still😬)…I always say we are never to old to change our minds or our ways….stay tuned! 🤷🏾♀️
I feel that when it comes to the emoji 😂.
Emojis perpetuate race, ethnicity, gender identity & expression, religion, sexual orientation, class, socioeconomic status, age, native language, disability status, citizenship and colorism. Why willingly opt for all of that on SM? It doesn't make sense. We have an opportunity to simply be and we are choosing categories. Don't fall for it. Come on ya'll. Wake up.
Not dark-skin energy Professor Hunter lol 😂😅
Lolol 6:52 my friends try to come at me for my "darker emoji use" im brownskin so i use ✊🏾👍🏾👏🏾✌🏾 these emojis 😂😅
This is my complexion 👍🏾but I rock dis👊🏿♠️
We come in many shapes and shades and every single one is beautiful.
❤❤💯💯✊🏿✊🏿👊🏿👊🏿🫶🏿🫶🏿
Exactly as long as she wasn’t saying chocolate or dark skin is undesirable
I dont think that matters to Chili what a person look like above the waist...so I've heard. Rumor has it she prefers subway!
Yeah a rumor you just made-up😂.
I just find it strange from all the comments chili could reply to, was this one.
Yep..bring that Toffee Emoji💪🏽
First of all ! Every one of all ethnicities and races come in different shades of skin tones! I don’t know why we keep having this stupid conversation! Chili is a brown girl. If she wants to figure at her exact shade, she needs to take her ass to the MAC counter and they would gladly help her! I would describe myself as brown! My skin tone is Almond Mocha with pinkish red undertones!
This is episode is REALLY petty for old @ss black Gen-Xers. When we have nothing of substance to discuss, default to the minstrel show.
Geez this makes us look BAAAAAAD! 🙄🙄🙄
"Where de bahbucue and mac n cheese at!!!"
And you see why gen-X gets no respect from us 90s millennials/Gen-Z !
I corrected my sister’s emoji use. She was way off with her skin tone! LOL
What is dark skinned energy versus light skinned energy? How is that energy expressed especially when you're a black woman? Would be interesting to explore this further.
I know EXACTLY what they are….we all know it has nothing to actually do with the color of the skin, but the social experience AND a cellular memory which informs us of where we “fit” in the “hierarchy”. It is of course based on stereotypes, but every stereotype has its roots in the history of the targeted individual. I know what it means, but I hate those terms so very much. We have so much work to do.👀
Dark skin energy versus light skin energy only applies to Black Women?
@o4444 Absolutely not. Both genders are affected. However, I am most specifically interested in the impact on black women.
@@erikaarnold4780 Indeed, we do.
Perhaps Chili’ commenter should have said milk chocolate. My sister who is Chili’s complexion labels herself pecan or walnut brown 😂😂😂 I just say girl let me know which box you checking on the census?