People of color discuss the impact of 'colorism' l GMA
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Research shows people with darker skin experience an increased number of problems, including socioeconomic issues. Amira Adawe of The Beautywell Project weighs in on how to fight the bias.
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As a darkskinned woman I've come to the acceptence; that's the way it is. I love myself and that's all that matters at the end of the day.
EXTREMELY TRUE AF 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿❤❤❤❤
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& You are a Hebrew israelite sister God chosen people.. Always love it its beautiful deep within and outside..( Yes teach real history ).Read & see.. Yeshua dark skin one of reason he was killed also..This been going on since the beginning ...You are very very special..🧡💙💚🎗
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lighterism
Lightskin people face discrimination to though
@@ooouuu4446 with lightskin and mix race lightskin men it is , mabe not the light females , but the men yea we face discrimination from darkskins , even though we love chocolate woman ,we love darkskin woman more than darkskin men love darkskin women
This is a very pertinent talk that should have stated centuries ago. Congratulations to the GMA team for exploring this topic!
Matias Moscoso Cevallos yes! We need to heal from within. I was literally just having this conversation with a friend.
centuries ago?
@@aubreyjames8795 Sorry, millennia ago.
@@matiasmoscosocevallos5216 Millennia? Probably decades ago. No worries. Centuries ago black people were still slaves. Millennium would have been the middle ages. Decades sounds about right for colorism.
@@aubreyjames8795 Thanks for the reminder!
RIP to the beautiful producer Daisha. ❤️
Yes R.I.P. to producer Daisha, she appears so talented & young, what happened?
I have seen colorism within families where parents have for example two kids one dark the other light and the light one is treated better by family members but I had no idea colorism effected wages! Very eye opening!
Spiritual Cosmetics I had a lighter skinned cousin who had darker parents and siblings. His mother did not like that he was lighter and treated him differently. Yes, unfortunately, unfair treatment happens to Black people, period. Until there is an intentional shift in thinking, this type of dysfunction will continue to exist.
I seen lightskin people and kids get treated better than darkskin children to, it goes both ways , seen lightskins suffer from terrible wages compared to there darkskin peers as well
Pier rat You are very blessed to not have seen the negative effects of colorism in your family. But I never said all families have problems with colorism I just said I have seen the negative effects of it first hand.
I went to high school with a particular mixed girl I almost envyed for her beauty but she was super self conscious because she was the darkest of all her sisters...A friend of mine told me a story about a golden brown Mexican guy she complemented on his “beautiful complexion” but he couldn’t even take the compliment because he said they call me “dirty Mexican”. Then I came across a Indian girl who said she hated her complexion. And me I’m “African American” and I have my own grand mother who is quite dark skin favor the lighter skin great grands over the darker ones. I also saw the same thing with 2 of my cousins with their grandma on their other side. I seen this girl at church who was the darkest in her family break down crying asking my pastor or maybe God why did I have to be the dark one? And me and my husband are medium/light complexion and 3 of our kids are light/medium complexion and one is brown skin and I would NEVER in a million years treat my brown skin son any different then his siblings but he goes to school and kids ask him why he is dark but all his family lighter as if he could really answer this question, as if he really knew why God made him brown skin...So you are very very very blessed to never have seen the negative effects of colorisim because I have.
Pier rat I was really thinking about your comment when you said that isn’t colorism basically the same as discrimination because someone is fat or short...Well I came to this conclusion: that although it’s more difficult for some of us than others the fat person can in theory simply loose weight ( in most cases unless they have some underlining medical condition that makes them gain weight which isn’t super common) . However the short guy can’t really get any taller (unless he’s willing to wear heals like the artist Prince). Then I looked it up and there is an actual term for discrimination based on someone’s height. It’s called height discrimination or heightism. Upon further research (on google) I found that heightism May effect employment, where short people could be less likely to be hired than taller people! I am dumbfounded. I didn’t know that heightism was a thing. So I don’t think u were trying to but thank you for introducing me to this concept. I still stand by the notion that colorism is a very real problem but now I realize that so is heightism. Nobody should be discriminated against because of their skin color or height, (or weight but is it really weight discrimination if you can’t fit into a seat at the theater, or a roller coaster, or on a plane? Unless u have an underlying medical condition? That is). I think we can fix prejudices and unconscious discrimination little by little by having these types of discussions so we are aware of our own biases so that we can over come them. God bless.
Right
Ironically it’s very common amongst Caucasians to want a bronze or tan look, spending time in the sun, using spray tans.
yankeeladee02 yep but the black people want to blame white people for everything. It has NOTHING to do with color but everything to do with character.
Being tan is not the same as being dark skin
Lockon Stratos - Clearly it’s not the same. The point was the hypocrisy whereby racism directed at darker skinned persons are held by the lighter skinned/ whites that in turn try to have their own skin tan, bronze, darker. The comment wasn’t meant to undermine or trivialize darker skin color and the injustices that’s come with the darker skin color.
yankeeladee02 💯 the grass is always greener on the other side
yankeeladee02 being tan shows that you go out and are sociable and that makes you attractive to everyone, not the same as trying to be black or brown
Colorism is so ignorant. Skin color doesn't make a person. We are much more than our skin color! I used to be teased because I'm light with freckles. We must teach our children that skin color doesn't matter and maybe one day this world will be better.
@Robin D 😢😢
I’m dark skin and I’ve always felt beautiful
I love my olive skin tone
As you should have. Can't noone love me better than me
Same 🥰
I'm dark skinned and cannot and will not do anything about anyone's opinions about me. I love myself and others around me. That is all that matters. When you are insecure, people will take advantage of that. Confidence is key.
Darkskins are the most insecure people there is though lmfao
@@geekedmaxx Yet you were in the comments going on about lightskins being victims and shit. Lightskins are so blind to the problem it’s hilarious. Comments like this is why colorism exists and why we don’t jack ya.
@@DemiMariee colorism is a made up garbage word to divide , and we are victims
@@geekedmaxx If colorism is fake, lightskins aren’t victims. lol. you saying this literally makes you sound insecure
@@DemiMariee ok buddy 🤡
I have a twin sister who is lighter than I am. And as a child I wasn’t allowed to play with her because I wasn’t light skinned according to her. I never told my parents or other siblings because I didn’t want her to get in trouble. I protected her and while doing that I undervalued myself. After awhile I knew to compete with her light skin I had to be better than her in everything. Even to this day and I’m 39yrs old, she gets by in life with her lighter pigmentation.
You are an amazing being
If people don't see u for who you are they are missing out period!!!
You do you babe
Your sisters was totally wrong. You are wonderful, just as she. Beautiful just as she. May God continue to bless you.😇
That was foolish. Protect?
Similar experience. My lighter skinned sister DISOWNED me in school. Told everyone she was not related to me. My family gushed over light skin, the lighter skinned girls got treated better. They even named the lighter skinned daughters prettier names.
James Feliciano thank you, that was a very nice thing to say!
Here's a thought Michael...they can start by not putting women of other races above their own.....ring a bell?
Right! As if he doesn't know. We know what he like lol.
I was thinking the same thing he can not talk .He is attracted from light to white,unfortunately no dark skin women on his arm.
Correct me if I'm wrong but, are you referring to his relationship with a white woman? being in a relationship with a white woman, or light skin woman does not mean antiblack. Some feel as though dating only dark skin people is true pro blackness. But that's not the case. Idk his preferences or biases, so I can't judge or accuse him of having a preference for light skind-to whiteness.
@@TheTonyspik YOU CAN'T TALK BLACK AND SLEEP WHITE...YOUR LOYALTY LIES WITH YOUR MATE...LEAVE AND CLEAVE...SORRY...CAN'T HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO ON THIS ONE
@@PanAfricanist I refuse to follow that colorist and racist ideology. I prefer to follow the path of antriacism. And in regards to color, the belief is as follows intentions. To be an antiracist is not to reverse the beauty standard. To be an antiracist is to eliminate any beauty standard based on skin and eye color, hair texture, facial and bodily features shared by groups. To be an antiracist is to diversify our standards of beauty like our standards of culture or intelligence, to see beauty equally in all skin colors, broad and thin noses, kinky and straight hair, light and dark eyes. To be an antiracist is to build and live in a beauty culture that accentuates instead of erases our natural beauty.
Kendi, Ibram X.. How to Be an Antiracist
And in my own words- In regards to dating, as long as one has antiracist beliefs that all shades are beautiful, then who they date is not a representation of their blackness etc. There's a difference between dating someone white/light because one thinks they are superior or better, and dating someone who is white/light but maintaining the belief that other races and or darker shades are just as beautiful and valuable.
There are ALOT of Michaels out here y'all! Mike SHOULD not have said a mumblin word w his track record. Look at the sorry Brotha who disrespected Lupita? Then appologized after he got "lit up" by the sistas. Save your fake appology! If a brotha don't want a chocolate queen, Find u somebody who will! And dont say nothing Black men! We dont have to go no farther than our BLACK athletes, just saying!
This topic needed more time. This is still such a real and traumatizing subject.
Sadly, some light skinned Black people are not treated well by others, either. Of course, they are subject to racism as well. But, then, many light skinned Black people are looked upon as not being Black enough by other Black people. So, I empathize with darker skinned Black people who experience colorism. But, I also empathize with lighter skinned Black people who have also experienced colorism. Racism and colorism are ridiculous in any form.
Word! You and me both. I get told by other black folk that I'm not black enough, even people within my own family have said it. Thank you for bringing up this point!
How does this impact you specifically, getting jobs, fair sentence ect
all colors can experience colorism but it mostly happens to darker people in my opinion.
So called light-skinned "black" people are mixed not black.
If you are light skinned and have two Black parents, you are Black. If you are biracial, you can identify as Black. Black is Black.
Even here in Africa if you don't have light skin you are not beautiful but I know this is not true and I think this have to stop
Where in Africa? Here in the South( South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland) there are far too many lighter skinned blacks for it to be an issue. We are the lightest blacks in Africa yet PURE black because we have Khoisan blood. I have noticed Ghanaians, Nigerians and other West Africans(who incidentally are the darkest blacks I have ever seen) tend to worship lightness and make an issue of it. Guess its just not the norm.
Refilwe Pule right
I watched a lot of Nollywood movies and shows and they promote a lot of dark skin women.
Yes we have colorism in Africa but not like the American one which is so deep. A dark skinned women in Africa can find love easily but in America when you are dark as a woman it's difficult to find love
@Refilwe pule ... some of us have khoisan dna but we are not lightskin ok and we do experience colourism here in South Africa
I can remember as a child asking my mom out of nowhere why my sister and I weren’t lighter skinned like she was. My mom was horrified and asked why did we ask that. I couldn’t have been older than 6 or 7 but I said that lighter skinned people are treated better. But what’s also disturbing is I’d no recollection of anything in particular being said to me or experiencing anything regarding a specific instance of colorism. Colorism is so embedded in our culture and subtle that it can almost go unnoticed, fester and spread.
Thanks to my mom and my experiences I know that worth and beauty is not defined by the color or shade of a person’s skin.
A rule I’ve always had: I won’t date anybody who tells me to get out of the sun because they fear I will get darker! To me, that is one of the most horrible things to say to a melanated person!
It’s not only in the United States it’s everywhere
Especially in Africa
Yes
Another way to address colorism in early childhood starts with home environments with parenting tools of "Choice Toolbox" of family interaction, toys, tv/movie viewings, and conversations; within the early school years, a hiring of diversity (of ethnicity & complexions) among teachers & staff will be the visual that they'll need.
I really like the term "choice toolbox" adding that to my vocabulary!
Brown women you just have to stop giving a damn about what people think. I stopped caring years ago and I’m happy as ever . Black and brown are beautiful 🖤 🤎and that’s not up for debate.
Amen
I’m not saying he’s not black. I just don’t think he’s the one to be involved in those topics because he has his own problems with colorism and blackness
It's comments like this that speak to the problem of colorism. Because he's not "dark enough for you" his issues are invalid. You need to check your INTRA-RACISM!
He is definitely black! and I personally believe you can date whoever you choose However when you are a certain race for example a black man and you NEVER date black women and you only date white/mixed women I think it shows a form of self hatred deep down. Many black celebrities mostly men date white/mixed women... I think years ago some black celebrity said “you know you have arrived (as a black man) when you can date outside your race”. Wish I remembered who said this it was a rapper or singer I think. But like I said at the end of the day people can date whomever they please...but we probably won’t hear him talk about why he only dates white light women but at the end of the day he doesn’t owe anyone an explanation...all that said he’s just doing his job. Him speaking on this topic is more relatable than one of his white colleagues.
@@spiritualcosmeticss fair enough.
I have never heard the term "itraracism" very nice. It's a perfect term
I agree
As a brown skinned girl, here in the UK, I’ve experienced this / experiencing this. The truth is the darker you are, society views you as lesser than. We have to combat colourism, now.
Fr that's why I low-key don't want to go there
But the UK says they are not racist ?! (I am being sarcastic.)
Its arrogant of the UK leadership and it’s people to keep proclaiming they are not a racist (above judging people based on their color) country like the rest of the world, implying they are better and above that when in fact it’s obvious they aren’t. The UK has its racism and colorism issues just like the rest of the world, it’s that the UK is in denial of it. And you can’t change what you are denial of.
I believe you.
This has been the biggest Gaslighting hoax ever. Dark skin doesn't wrinkle or age and it's actually the most beautiful skin.
brobro "We"? 🤣 Nice try. It's so obvious by your ridiculous comments that you are not Black.
@brobro what are you saying,all middle Easterners are goodlooking, go get some reading done!
Whst is attractive for you , may not be for me. Stop your generalizations
@brobro😂😂 Go preach that bs to your Klan members.
brobro I don't need to look up any data. I am actually Black and I have been repeatedly told that I am beautiful by White people, Latinos, mixed race people, etc. Even a couple of people that I believe were Middle Eastern, but I'm not sure 😆 I'm not light skinned either. People of African descent have all different types of features and some people are beautiful, some are average looking, and some are unattractive, the same as every other race of people on the planet including Middle Easterners. Nothing you said made sense and would only be stated by a racist.
@brobro I wasn't even bragging, just stating facts. The "statistics" can say whatever they want, but I know my life experience. I don't know where you live but I'm in a major U.S. city and it's extremely common to see interracial couples here and elsewhere, so clearly it's not just my experience. It's no feather in my cap to receive compliments and be asked out by different races, it's just life. Do you have any life experience to speak of, or is it just "statistics" and "data"? Keep talking, you're really giving yourself away.
Even our black men want to marry white women or light skinned women not black sistahs...colorism is worse in the black community..
Black women also prefer light skin. This isn't a gender issue. Colorism is practiced and perpetuated by men and women.
Colorism is racism between blacks and multiracials.
Sleep1061 SOME black women. All medium to dark skin black women are least desired in some societies.
Of course it's not all Black women, just like it's not all Black men.
@@biracialawareness.7956 you hit the nail on the head!!🙌
This reminds me of a scene from the 1992 movie, Malcolm X. Malcolm and a prison inmate were in the prison library and they were looking up the definitions of "Black" and "White" in the dictionary. Here is what it said. "Black: Destitute of light. Devoid of color. Enveloped in darkness; hence utterly dismal or gloomy; as, the future looked black. Soiled with dirt; foul. Sullen; hostile. Forbidding; as a black day. Foully or outrageously wicked; as black cruelty. Indicating disgrace, dishonor or culpability." "White: of the color of pure snow; reflecting all the rays of the spectrum. The opposite of black. Free from spot or blemish; innocent; pure; without evil intent. Harmless; honest; square-dealing or honorable." Seems as though people takes these definitions seriously when it comes to people.
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Hip Hop loves the foreign light skin today . Hip Hop used to love Trina , Tameka , Renee , Janette , and Latisha.
It doesn't matter what color you are, what matters is that we are human and we should be treated as humans . Denzel Washington said a quote that I stand by and the quote he said was " It's not color, it's culture".
and beliefs are a part of culture. If you have negative beliefs that impacts your vibration and you create your life by your belief systems and vibration..
No hate to lighter skinned people, but dark skin has so many benefits we take for granted. That young black girl and the Indian woman with the brown skin are gorgeous. Society is so pathetic. I prefer skin that doesn't burn in the sun.
I love my olive skin tone
@@elini9218 As you should. We all should love our skin. Unfortunately, people are stupid and society has created a hierarchy. God created beautiful diversity, but humans pervert whatever God creates.
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We r all very beautiful in any skin tone in any way.. May God Bless all of Us ..
I'm not black but have very dark skin. I have black blood. I have been dealing with light skin people thinking they're better than me my whole life. I'm to the point other than my family and friends have started to hate people with light skin. I have started to favor people with dark skin and treat them better.
Colonialism = Colorism. That's why bleaching creams are still so popular.
And classism
I'm latina and this is true in a lot of people in Latin America. But some truly don't care.
I'm a Brown Mexican guy and never felt colorism. I actually like being Brown cuz the popular saying for women is they like "tall, dark, handsome" men. And some pretty girls call me cute and handsome, so I don't really feel bad for being Brown, I actually like it.
A Queen of Hip Hop is Lauryn Hill , Angela Davis , Assata Shakur , Queen Latifah , MC Lyte , Lady of Rage.
So I guess all the hate and light skin jokes light skin MEN(not women) get and how sistas almost ALWAYS pass over light skin men and the NEGATIVE stigma attached to light skin men being soft, feminine, girly etc. is just NOTHING. No one even mentioned that ONCE?
Because people pick and choose the outrage that best fits their narrative.
I think you missed the point. You may get poked at occasionally, but not full blown paid less on top of being black. Overlooked for mate selection, jobs, arrested at a higher number, expelled, ignored more frequently in society as a whole housing healthcare, education it's harder, Seen as less then amongst your own tribe. Yes you get pinched, but still seen as better then of the two.........
@@ladyofspa you're using more myth than fact...
Let’s just call colorism what it really is - racism.
I absolutely love Dr. Joy DeGruy's work! She's amazing ❤
The different nose shapes in the thumbnail is so satisfying. I really wish we could embrace how different we all are.
Important topic, but the segment felt rushed and only scratching the surface. Then again there are many documentaries and interviews out there that deal with the subject in depth.
Colorist interview with one person of color in the studio.😒🤔
I really think the idea of dark skin colors as a negative is seen and judged it's worst within the black community. where do little girls begin hating their darker skin, they hear it at home and in their community. I was friends with a gorgeous lighter skin black girl in middle school who came from a well to do family and had professional parents and she was relentlessly bullied by the black girls who were clearly so envious they couldn't see straight. They would call her shay whitey whatever the hell that means. She was such a sweet beautiful girl but was bullied out of our school, it was DISGUSTING. No one pays more attention to color and pigment than other black people. That judgement begins at home and in their community. I've never seen or heard a white person comment on the shade of a black persons skin. I did however hear all the time the black kids tell each other they looked burnt or had nappy bald heads and all kinds of other mean insults thrown at each other.
That why I don’t like black ppl
It has a long history taught by European colonizers and then white supremacists here in states. It's been taught since before enslaved. Once "freed" reconstruction kept the horrors of breaking down black identification down to it's core. Then Jim Crow began dividing biracials like apartheid creating classism based on skin tones. Exploitation was further enhanced even during civil rights breaking the spirit identity and culture was / is our social order. It's continued now with media, and social media upholding the destruction of the black image,we now even cooperate freely knowingly or unknowingly.....The colonizers abused us so well we now took it over.
I'm noticing some disturbing comments on this topic. #1. All of a sudden it's " light skinned Black ppl aren't fully black but biracial" even with 2 Black parents and dark skinned siblings the light skinned person is somehow the only biracial one. #2. It seems there's an attemp to write light skinned Black people out of the race. If you're participating in this kind of race play you need to stop and 2 you should be ashamed of yourselves. 3. It'll never happen! Light skinned BLACK people are BLACK PEOPLE. THE END!
No. No such thing as "black" people. That's the trap.
My mom is a colorist....She called me a dark skinned witch ... I was 6 😞
Why?
Chu mixed? If so cn't blme her.
Sorry you went through that 😢😢
Pay attention to the other hosts' body language as soon as Michael Strahan mentioned "skin tone", their discomfort is palpable!😐
They did not even let her finish.
Love from india
Let's be honest, a BIG PORTION of the discrimination against darker skinned women come from darker skinned men.
yes definitely in the black community. they have self-hate issues
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This!!!
When you hate yourself you take it out on the easiest target, or on what reminds you of what you hate in yourself. and voila... Discounting your own tribe.
@@ladyofspa All bigotry did evolve from tribalism.
I had someone literally told me in high school I was too black to date them if i was a little lighter she would definitely date me
I’ve been told I look like Tia and Tamera, Essence Atkins. Honestly, and this is absolutely painful to say the only people I experience colorism from are darker skinned BW. I mean HATEFUL. I’ve left two job positions due to the bullying. And I refuse to work anywhere with predominately BW. It’s the age old - you think you pretty, you stuck up, who do you think you are? Nope, I’m shy and quiet because I’ve been bullied about my skin color since I was a child from from my own peer group. This was painfully clear last night when I went to a social group, me and a white woman were there but everyone was else was a darker skinned BW. I’m being friendly and open asking others about themselves and trying to connect. It was painfully obvious that me and the white woman were being ostracized. Ignored, overlooked, eye rolls. So yeah. Funny, my parents are both darker than me, I have great-grandparents on each side who were white. My siblings and I are all various shades of brown. My parents never once said anything about our different shades of brown, I didn’t experience racism until I was 32. I experienced colorism when I was 9 by the black girls at my new school telling me that I think I’m better than them. Huh? I’m shy and new. So yeah it hurts and it’s not just a one way street. 😢
Beauty is in every shade every ethnicity
"Not by the color of your skin but by the content of your character."
You can’t just fix this issue in the United States . The has been a big issue or beliefs historically.
This is how it is in Asian countries
My college career was ruined by light skin people because I look black, and when I say black, I meant dark black not light black.
ME : 😱😢😭😡😠
Why the hell are they going to talk about this, WHEN NOTHING IS GOING TO BE DONE ABOUT IT?!?!
Because that’s how we get something done about it.
Zero solutions discussed 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯.
Let's brainstorm at least
This is so true. I had to tell my mum, my daughters aren't white but black, no matter how light skinned they are. They are black, biracial kids.
@Souhailla D I am
Triracial
Great topic !!!!!
I would have liked for this to be a longer video but all information very eye opening
So I grew up in the hood. I’m light skinned/biracial. I was definitely the outcast. I was bullied physically assaulted sexually assaulted by my own people. It’s sad because I think all Black people are amazing and I wish I was accepted even today at family reunions I get stared at like I don’t belong I never saw myself as better than any dark skin black American. To be honest, I hated
myself growing up even today I look in the mirror and wish I wasn’t so different But that does not change the fact that dark skins black Americans have it rough I’ve seen a discrimination the police brutality and it’s not right I hope things change for better in the future for all of us
Forgive the misspelled words
I feel comfortable with my complexion but when I make a video call I am made to feel otherwise 😂
Speaking for the Black community, we don't have a colorism problem as much as we have a problem with mixed -race people identifying as Black. Presently, most Black people are brown to darker-skinned. When we talk about about "light-skinned Black people" we are often referring to mixed people whom chosen to say their are Black vs mixed.
We don't chose to say we are black you chose to tell us were black which is racist. Just like you do to Dominicans and various other Latin groups
Don’t forget the perspective of biracials and quite possibly lighter skinned black women. Dark skinned women harassing and hating lighter skinned people, because of their insecurities. It happens far too often in the u.s.
Biracial people can be darkskin too
I feel you, but that's not the topic, can we for two minutes just have the spotlight alone to address a real issue. Once we eradicate this it will likely eradicate all colorism issues. Help support be a part of the solution .
This is a huge problem
Whether people agree or disagree is their choice but discussions can only go so far especially if the conversation is shallow nor will it change if companies rename or remove products. Colourism, privilege, unfair practices are equal to a destructive heart problem that only Christ can change if ppl choose too. This is a issue that spans decades. Sadly enough even many black ppl believe lighter aka any race except black is superior and the preference is to create children, families, goals etc with other races because there is very limited structure taught to the young black man and woman of today...
The lady in blue is so brave to speak up on this topic. And she's so right, there's so much trauma involved, and it's also about religion too. Religion makes up so much of black culture, without it we don't feel authentic.
This is wonderful. We have to be aware of these negatives in our society, so we can make a change. God bless.❤️
"Light, bright, gotta be white." The ideal of colorism goes back to the days of slavery in America. Where light skinned slaves worked in the house and dark skinned slaves worked out in the field. This lead to the term mulatto. A person of color who had mixed heritage and their complexion was fair/light. Throughout the years African Americans have held internal standards based on skin color. The brown bag test is still used in some form/fashion. Meaning if your skin tone is lighter than that of a brown paper bag then you're "in." Your worth is measured Soly on the complexion of ones skin. Dark/Brown skin people are seen a lowly, dirty, ignorant and substandard in comparison to those who are light/fair skinned. When God created the colors of the Universe he created Every Shade. Every Hue. Every Tone. Every YOU!! #BEBEAUTIFUL
🎉😊Deborah Roberts 🤩is gorgeous! Looking regal 👸🏽 , unbothered 💅 well hydrated, and moisturised !!! 😇 Forever keepin it classy!
No race is better than the other
Thats bad when we discriminate against ourselves & other races know about our in house quarrels, which come from slavery. Its sad when an employer pays the lighter the skin, the higher the wage. It time for change🤔
Check Chrissie on YT she has some in dept videos on the topic
I think it's important to note that caucasian, black, indigenous, Asian, are different races. Latin is not a race, Hispanic is not a race. To the young gentleman who says they call him "black," that is because it's your race. “Hispanic” comes from the Latin term for “Spanish,” Hispanicus; the ancient Romans called the Iberian Peninsula Hispania. And Latin comes from different parts of Europe. Hispanics and Latins are very much European. You cannot put the Latins in an umbrella of "People of Colour" and say light skin and dark skin because that's not biological reality. POC is originally French and it was first used for people who were black or mixed with black. Today, it is for people who are dark skinned (not European but Asian, Black, Indigenous).
Lol let’s talk Texturism
basically its black vs mixed race
@@PsychicMedium4747 I’m black, fully black and I know I get privilege because my hair is really curly and isn’t 4c. Mixed raced people can have 4c and black people can have 3c hair. So ur point is invalid
@@kaiexo9368 you are wrong ... mixed can have 4c but it is not common. Full black cannot have 3a . You are wrong about that. If they have 3 a there is some mixed ancestry in the gene pool. Fact
They got weave for that
@@stonedecatur6602 tuff but when they wear it people always got something to say. you can’t win
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Men can be colorist TOO.
I think this affect mostly dark skinned women...cause I am dark as hell from the Dinka tribe in Sudan...but I still have lightskinned.. girlfriend....just my opinion tho
So prevalent throughout cultures. In black American and Bollywood films, the female love interest will almost ALWAYS have light skin.
How do we change that??????? Do go to support, movie Industry is white so? Where do we pull support.....
Why did they cut the last speaker off like that in the editing?
I just want to ask. How is person or persons of color better than calling them colored? What happened to just calling them people and not singling them out by race alone when describing them?
It's segregation decorated as righteous. It's agenda, they can't have them see each other as kin, that won't work for the elites... So they maintain the divide while smiling and saying its progress.
This is definitely true in Puerto Rican 🇵🇷 Families.
I remember in high school; there were six guys standing by their lockers. I was at my locker, and a light skinned girl walked pass them; all them were trying to hollar at her. Then a dark skinned girl walked pass and they started making monkey sounds, laughing and saying she's ugly. The weird part is half of those boys were as dark as she was. My Carribean mom would say "dats de pot callin de kettle blok mon.🤣😂 but seriously; you see it in music videos, TV commercials, magazines, etc. Racism, colorism; whatever one calls it; is all over the world; like the US, India and in Brazil, the darker skinned Brazilians live on the hills in the crowded favela slums. In a TV commercial; they advertised flee collars. This lady had two cute puppies; 1 blk, 1 wt. She put the wt pup in bed with her and the blk pup on the floor. Why the blk pup have to have the flees. People see color even with pets! We must love who we are, our lives are too short 🐕🐩🌎😂
I am a lightskin black woman, and when I wore a short Afro or wore an almost baldhead, people, black and white, in this country made a big deal out of it. Had I been brown or dark skin it would have not been a big deal. In this country they associate nappy hair with brown and dark skin people, not lightskin black people. This is Colorism. It needs to stop. Let's get rid of all the "isms" in this country. A white woman gave me a mean evil look because I wore my hair natural, I thought she was going to attack me. In this country lightskin black people are not accepted when they wear their hair natural.
Trust all shades feel it. You are far from alone.
Some people are just not comfortable in their own skin. Get over it. You are how you are. It's neither right or wrong. It is you.
Wtf? No body complaining bout a hang nail. Theses are real issues of survival being treated less then is really real. Join the conversation or stay quiet.
If it can be kept objective, this will be an interesting topic. Emphasis on "if".
Yes
I'm a dark skin woman and never thought less of myself.
Ok congratulations 👏
@@Dii_22 I'm very proud. Love the skin I'm in 😍❤😘👏
@3:12 the girl in the Blue that is speaking is absolutely Gorgeous.
Grace Jones never needed a safe space. And she never cried like a child about her skin tone. Tokenizm is not representation. Representation is earned, not given. Grace Jones earned everything she had...and most black youth don't know who TF she is. They are too busy crying about not being loved rather then doing something worthy of being loved for. Such weakness should be despised.
Being part of a culture that supports single motherhood, having children out of wedlock, dependence on the govement, mass abortion rates; is the real problem in society.....I love how this same group says racism is the root of all their major problems yet these communities are in cities where every authority in their city are almost exclusively black...can't blame systemic racism when you live in a city where white people are the minority, more than 50% of the police force is black, the police chief is black, the DA is black, the Mayor is black, the wardens in the top 3 prisons are all black, 13/17 city council members are black.
Why was it cut off? She starts talking about school curriculums, and it's off?
It was getting real
I am a white women and I believe the darker the woman the more beautiful. Even really dark women are soooooo beautiful. I am jealous. People are so stupid.
The most important thing that a person , must accept, is the color of their own skin.
there have been Research Studies of
Skin Tones mostly by the Cosmetic Industry,
the same people that study Hair Color,
the use of many scales of skin tone,
just do a search on Skin Tones,
the whitest skin tone is Japanese but the skin does not tan,
2nd Whitest skin is from Ireland but the
skin burns before tanning
3rd Whitest skin is middle Europeans
that do tan
4th is the Brown skins but this is a very
diverse group, not all brown skin people are the same
5th group is the light black skin,
blacks with freckles
6th group is the dark black skinned group the Ethiopians, and Australian
Aboriginal People.
the Australian Aboriginal People are the most satisfied with their skin color, and the nicest people, who are not even concerned with white skin people.
Thank you for breaking this down. We need to educate each other to understand one another in a loving way.😇
Wrong! We have to stop using Eurocentric terms of colors!! Color is anything stained , varnish or dyed! We are melinated!! We are the Grandchildren of the fallen Moorish Empire! That’s a fact!!! We can never move on nor gain Self Determination when using slave terms Europeans placed upon us! You already lose the argument! There was a time The Grandchildren of European Colonists called our people here, black-a-Moors! ( look it up .....) Plus we need to know we are the Indigenous Americans here, who were called Moors before Europeans invaded our land!! Europeans set up this cast system and lied about our people being brought here in order to stop you/us from declaring our heritage after the Emancipation Proclamation! Furthermore, we must stop the foreign invaders The grandchildren of European Colonists from using the word American!!🤨 see old Webster’s dictionary for American! It stated, indigenous copper complexion people of America! That meant we are dark melinated people! Last I checked these Grandchildren of European Colonists are devoid of Melinine and our Melinine is what makes them discriminate us on wages, housing, crime, justice system, high arrest rate, rape, drug saturation in our communities, foster gang violence, Lynch’s because of our skin complexion!!!!😡 We need to wake up and stop giving these Europeans power! Peace from the Magi in the East. ❤️🇲🇦🇺🇸✡️🙏🏾
WHAT!? Honestly please learn to just listen. This is not the time to put your crazy eurocentric twist on things. You people are why all this started. Just look down, be quiet for once.
@@magihypnotisthannibalbey1755 so why do you keep speaking a European tongue? 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
@@ladyofspa do you know what you're talking about?
Even the thumb nail doesn’t show dark skinned brown ppl. We get darker than that darkest one. Wtf
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I agree with this, but there is also another side light skinned people in the black community are bullied also & you can also not be black enough in the black community the point is we have to stop it all we are 1 race & our differences is the Beauty of humanity
Perhaps lighter people have been made fun of but they have a seat at the table. You can't even compare the plight of two. Getting teased vs, being killed more often.
Don’t We All Love Being A Human
Are we all seen as human beings and treated as such?
This is important.
Is Colorism also a more apt term for the misnomer of "racism," given that we are all (all ppl) literally of the one and only human race, The Human Race?
It sounds like this is meant to be an aside to complectionism, a more accurate term for what has mistakenly been called, "racism," after that term was introduced more intentionally to promote a lie, rather than the fact that all ppl are of only one race/of one species. Still, it seems to me that colorism and complectionism could easily be interchangeable terms. The fact that ppl of the same "ethnic groups" identify with the term, colorism, is appropriately indicative of this as a prejudicial phenomenon now quite common in The human race.
Thank you.
This is a disaster.
The panel should've included Deborah Roberts on the panel. I'm quite sure she depending on her on experiences with colorism has alot to say.
One of the major and damaging effects of white supremacy. It is up to us to rid ourselves individually and collectively of colorism by being mindful of the images our children see and the words we say in their presence. Look for the beauty in all people and appreciate the differences.
But if you have very dark skin, then why not be with others who have very dark skin?
I love all darkskin people of all races 👌
Negro is not a negative word wtf