COLORISM IN 1988

[@chantem175]

The dark skinned man is so intelligent, eloquent, absolutely mesmerizing.

[@cosmicneuromelanatedgoddess]

I agree and he's the only one making Sense

[@smiley1958]

exacry the white man could not even give a direct answer when he brought a example of green people,...smh

[@esotericsurveillance]

His name is Edward C Lawson

[@MA-yh2ko]

Mr. Lawson "hosted" this show!😅

[@Holy1OfIsrael.]

he dead now @@smiley1958

[@b1stintellectualfba666]

Controversial Talk Shows were the shit in the 80's.

[@PrettyEyesz]

Right!!

[@bookerwellsviews-nq1xr]

I miss the Talk Show format, real discussions took place.

[@vatricegeorge]

Me too

[@Elvis-guy1973]

Yes, I especially loved the breakout of intellectual banter that occurred on the "Geraldo Show", when Geraldo got his nose broke and all hell broke lose between the White Nazis and black guests. Yes, those were the good old days!😂😂😂😂

[@asaseya1819]

This format was awful.

[@BILDEMRICH]

35 years later and we still deal with this

[@wwatson8891]

1000 year from now it will b the same. Aristotle viewed dark people negatively from way back then

[@GoddessOfLove-pr7ek]

Yes sadly we are. 😢

[@BILDEMRICH]

@GoddessOfLove-pr7ek I am very "high yellow". My mother was light skinned and my dad was dark. I was born in the 80's. Funny thing was, I couldn't understand the stigma of the persona that I thought I was all that because of my skin tone. Funny thing is it's all genetic. I look at my dad side and they have the most beautiful dark, mocha, velvety skin you would every see. Absolutely beautiful. I wish my skin was more like theirs.

[@GoddessOfLove-pr7ek]

@@BILDEMRICH Hi. My apology for the late reply. I was born 1980 to both parents of dark melanin complexions. As a young child to my adult years I thought all my life my skin tone was brown. Few years ago I come to realize that my complexion is chocolate/dark chocolate. I always loved my skin and never want to bleach it. Amazing thing about my entire family both my father and mother relatives they all have unique kinds of melanin complexions light, fairer, brown, dark and darker skin tones. Genetically it makes us all beautiful no matter our skin color. Truth is I'm so tired of colorism, and so many other terrible, awful issues, situations and problems within our community. It would be great if all melanated Black people globally will come together and unite as one. We live in a world a life that won't happen. If only but I doubt it.

[@smiley1958]

thank you 2023 stll same,...brownskin people need to change our perspective so the SO CALLED GOVERNMENT STOP callin us black when we are different shades of BROWN

[@kimberlypeterkin4912]

Edward Lawson was too deep for the audience! The question was a good question. It was ashamed that the white guy couldn’t answer the question about being taken and he’s around green people. The fact that white people don’t understand 400 years of oppression had affected black people. The trauma of it, especially when it comes to being Black in Society! It’s still a sensitive topic in the Black Community! My Mother is a light skin woman. She’s the lightest of her siblings! My Mother use to be tormented along with her 2 light skinned girlfriends in the 60s in North Philly due to them being light skinned with long hair.

[@gwiz9207]

Right? Sadly, some people simply lack the capabilities to feel empathy. I've had similar discussions and have tried my damnest to create scenarios so that the other person will understand my point of view and we never connect because they have and never will have these experiences therefore, THEY SIMPLY DON'T GET IT!

[@kimberlypeterkin4912]

@@gwiz9207 Exactly! Basically, you can learn about it, but some people can’t imagine themselves in that situation, unless it happens to them! I had conversations with people as well when it comes to slavery, segregation, reparations, and raising kids and some people can’t raise the bar when it comes to thinking outside the box!!!

[@PHlophe]

Kimberley, baby when i tell you he broke it DOWN !! . when he shook his head while saying James brown's name. I felt that sheit. His vocabulary was decades ahead of regular society thinking. Still relevant.
it is frustrating to create scenarios for the sake of relatability or real life alternate immersion because some folk just don't have the creative brain to grasp it. I just lose patience.
I am a dad . my daughter is dark skinned and she was a page girl at friend's wedding. we came to rehearsal ahead of the nuptials . she was paired with a black boy the same age ( 6). that Black boy chucked a tantrum because, refused to hold her hand but instead the caucasian girl behind us. This cancer refuses to d.ie.

[@Jannfndnanakid]

there were more white slaves in the mediterranean during slavery in antiquity captured by the barbary prates alone than west african slaves brought to america. a lack of familiarity with context and broader history can make you obsess over and exaggerate certain things

[@Lola-seven]

Is it just me but people spoke with more eloquence back then. A lot of slangs and half-words have taken over these days.

[@Nekole1]

Agreed

[@lokeylady25]

Very nice observation

[@tam6011]

Yes we were forced too in order to survive. I am from Atlanta. People in Atlanta think I am from somewhere else. I am like no I speak English

[@jazcor]

Yes, I agree!! I have always said the same thing. I think the introduction of technology, the popularity of hip-hop music, and more television viewing are all to blame. I think people read a lot in the past. Nowadays not so much.

[@AdajaSade]

Yes!!

[@auroraseyets8516]

Love how the host has no fear in displaying how wholly ignorant he was about black culture 😂

[@chrismazz75]

Eh, I took it as he was being humble and not trying to make people feel like he knew their story when it wasn’t his own life experience.. let them tell it, ya know?

[@auroraseyets8516]

@@chrismazz75 It was funny because every time he tried to steer the conversation in a particular direction that revealed his ignorance he would be taken aback by the authentic responses of the panelists and audience members who were of Black culture. I hope he learned something.

[@kaymichal]

Its 2023 and I'm shocked at how society has dumbed down. Every person that spoke on this whether they were audience member or subject matter experts were articulate, composed, and exuded dignity. Today we can barely understand what people say or what point they are trying to make.

[@eveemcghee4454]

The comment is unintentionally perpetuating racism, there's just a lack of AAVE here because its from a time when AAVE was considered inarticulate, unintelligible, and academically considered separate from the english language as means to further dehumanize us

[@Blissedx]

Edward’s face at 20:25 almost took me outtttt😂😂😂

[@user-hg3iv5hy3s]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@bookerwellsviews-nq1xr]

Only 4.3K views? This should have blown up, people need to hear this, but I guess they didn't want to.

[@purplelove3666]

It's not about racism,it's about black people and biracial people looking at themselves

[@siddaye]

So the first woman is mixed and its obvious can we please stop substituting the word light for mixed theres a difference between the two like seriously

[@leelee8614]

Ong it gets me irritated when black people refer biracials as ‘lightskin’ coz they’re simply not. Lightskin was a term made for FULLY black people who came out lightskin.

[@jamesleon403]

Thank you ladies for telling the TRUTH! They were being quite disingenuous referring to her as a "light skinned" " black person" smh

[@Blissedx]

Agreed!

[@Userkvlnk]

That lady with dark blond curly hair looks white-passing, actually. Couldn't tell she had African heritage at fist and second sight from this tape

[@kisha4040]

​@@leelee8614There's no such thing as fully Black lightskinned people.

[@cosmicneuromelanatedgoddess]

It's baffling how non ambiguous black people will articulate the truth and the non black people or mixed-race and biracial people will dismiss TF out of the information and have this look on their face"😳"
Because they don't care
And they seemed appalled.

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

Yes because they are alright with how things are.

[@tias.6675]

Many black people don't care about this issue lol. It never comes up in any of my conversations 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

@@tias.6675 that’s unfortunate. The bottom line is we won’t exist eventually if we keep this Shit up. Perhaps you should have these conversations because the way we feel about ourselves is important.

[@SanaasimonB-tu9qm]

​@@kudjoeadkins-battle2502exactly

[@user-hg3iv5hy3s]

@@kudjoeadkins-battle2502oh we will exist but we will continue to be enslaved by another name and never truly feel good on a physical and spiritual level.
The system won’t ever let us cease to exist. We are too much of a profit making machine.

[@PrettyEyesz]

36 years ago and nothing has changed.

[@Steve-mp7by]

Just sad. The brainwashing of colorism is horrible. I had an Aunt who was gorgeous with a dark ebony skin tone who kept putting white powder on her face to make herself lighter

[@femininevibes2213]

Discrimination is WRONG no matter where it comes from and who experiences it rather you're dark skin or light skin we are all human beings with feelings god made us all

[@purplelove3666]

God*

[@soleilcorcoran2108]

The moderator handled this topic well. Miss these type of substantial shows. Now all we have are vapid celebrity culture based shoes.

[@lilmizzije]

We as a race, need to have more of these discussions.

[@ian_ford]

Too late. That window passed. As the decades passed, our collective emotional intelligence has declined. We couldn't have such conversations today, as they would spin out of control with emotional tirades inside 3 minutes.

[@tammyt8306]

That's the prob....You're way of thinking. We're one race..that's it...human. The concept of race was created by man...yes God created different nations, tribes and tongues, but us being identified by RACE...not His plan or concept.

[@noirjack7]

18:11 this is old but she’s right, kids can be cruel. Thank god for growth for some of us.

[@purplelove3666]

God*

[@Ss-mr5pj]

What is that man with dreadlocks called very intelligent anyone knows where he is today

[@stonec2166]

I just looked him up and it seems he passed in 2011.

[@stonec2166]

Edward Lawson

[@tmajec]

Edward C Lawson is no longer with us.

[@lokeylady25]

He died of pancreatic cancer

[@jenbunny1984]

RIP to him 🙏🏾

[@JordanJSparks]

Wow! Incredible insight from this video, as a White man I learned a lot! Especially from Mr. Edward Lawson. What an eloquent and educated man.

[@cocolyndon4604]

My grandmother, born in 1928 was a beautiful woman. She was dark skin, with tail bone dark wavy hair. She could not stand dark skin for some reason. She acted like she hated dark skin black people. She would bleach. She was married 4 times, she had 4 girls and a son, 2 girls were light skin and 2 as dark as herself, she gave the 2 dark skin girls to their fathers' parents to be raised and she raised the 2 light skin girls and the dark skin son (his skin didn't seem to matter) the 2 light skin girls became trifling women, terrible women and greatly mistreated my grandmother when she got old and stricken with Alzheimer's. I was her only dark skin grandchild of my mother's children, the sisters all had long hair and light skin. By the way, my mother was one of her dark skin daughters. My grandmother despised me and would look at me in discust, she would never talk to me in a loving way. I rember when I was about 4, I closed my hand in her car door, and I began to cry, she looked at me angrily and angrily said, "you stop cryinin" then she angrily turned and walked. She didn't try to console or sooth me.

[@Venise.A]

😢

[@beb5407]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@barbieg33]

My goodness, this was traumatizing to read; I'm so sorry you were so mistreated. And yes, dark skin only seems to be an impediment for the women. All over the world.

[@Thollis1987]

It’s always the family member that gets taken care of by those who mistreated them. It should not be this way. I’m sorry for your experience.

[@reliza93]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@jewelofaries]

The most important film Spike has ever made. Thank you Spike !! It needed to be addressed and we needed to hear it. You were WOKE long before it became a "trend."

[@Rahbinah]

Spike Lee perpetuated colorism. He is no hero.

[@melvonniebell]

​@Rahbinah how so?

[@Rahbinah]

@melvonniebell Jungle Fever (Lonetta McKee and Veronica Webb) School Daze (Tisha Campbell was the IT girl), Do the Right Thing (Rosie Perez played Spike's gf), Mo Betta Blues (Cynda Williams was the preference for both Spike and Wesley's characters). All of the movies put light skinned women on pedestals. In She's Gotta Have It, it's a brown skinned woman that he depicts as a hoe. Spike Lee's wife in real life can pass for white.

[@user-hg3iv5hy3s]

I’m glad he made this film School Daze but wish he had looked into his own spirit about he had internalized these preferences and reinforced them.

[@shandahughes2886]

I agree with the black woman with the glasses that spoke from the audience I have a mixture of different colors of people in my dark to light and that it's how you're raised whether that's important to you or not.
I understand that colorism comes as a form of white supremacy, I also understand it's perpetuated by black people too but it starts at home with that nonsense of light and dark / good and bad hair which does not exist ( bad hair is not having any hair) none of that denigrating talk was allowed in my family .
I wouldn't experience colorism until I stepped outside my family house and went to school or work with others.
At the end of the day I have the features / hair of Mom and Dad and that's beautiful to me regardless of what anyone else has to say about it is irrelevant.

[@GETYOBAGMONIQUE]

I be learning so much from You Tube and google that I never learned in school it's a true blessing.. He made a great point about green people 😂

[@brunoconceicao4423]

The caucasity of the White student🙄

[@sirharry3051]

Yeah, entitled and taught to think of self as superior. His demeanor suggests that surely his ancestors had once owned less than a dozen enslaved people and lost them. So then the bitterness perpetuated with each generation of its offspring.

[@eveemcghee4454]

​​@@sirharry3051lol bruh you weird af for coming up with that backstory lmao

[@stoleethatsme]

@@sirharry3051 biiterness would be YOU which would explain how you pulled that entire story out of your melodramatic ass'''

[@stoleethatsme]

@@eveemcghee4454 EXACTLY, but thats how many black people are now. create entire scenarios and backstory like some loony person, but have the nerve to call someone else bitter. reality check needed asap

[@Elvis-guy1973]

Edward Lawson(walkman) Is a very interesting individual who knows his beans.

[@eveemcghee4454]

Thanks for the reupload. Based on these comments, some people still need more exposure

[@anthonymayes929]

Wow I remember this talk show...born and raised in Philadelphia class of 88!!!

[@deborahfoster4687]

Very Interesting Show 2023

[@Blissedx]

26:43 Edward’s point was everything right there! Brilliant!

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

Good hair? She said it as though it’s a factual thing. Good features? 😂

[@feyrol42]

That is what stood out for me. She low key revealed her own prejudices with that one lol

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

@@feyrol42 she didn’t even realize it I bet. It’s a subconscious thing I believe.

[@tias.6675]

She was just repeating what everyone else said. Let's not act as if describing more European characteristics aren't widely referred to as "good".

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

@@tias.6675 yeah they are. However should we? That’s ridiculous for us to identify their features as better, or good. That’s a prime example of how we’ve been influenced by the mainstream.

[@MilitaryBeauty]

That’s what was believed back then… it wasn’t until the last 10 years did people start challenging the “good hair” comment…

[@bethr8756]

Such a manish voice

[@Noratheskindoc]

I agree. Also, she's 20 and looks 30ish😳

[@Blissedx]

But she was light skinned so that’s good enough for black men 😂

[@kisha4040]

​@@NoratheskindocPeople looked old back then.

[@shawnni3014]

@@Blissedxright 😂😂😂😂😂

[@BlessAminata]

@@Blissedxliterally all you need for black men is light skin 😂! Can be silly looking as long as that skin light you alright #sad

[@NatJac-gg3mv]

Now they are banning books about being proud to have kinky hair. 2023

[@GETYOBAGMONIQUE]

All black women have beautiful hair no matter what their shade is!

[@jameslee133]

Ms. Mikki Taylor.
Ive alway seen her name in Essence.

[@aundraeblackwell2949]

Lots of uncomfortable people in the audience.

[@douglaz74]

Particularly the whites

[@PrettyPurpleful]

More of these pls?

[@lowbo47omzascotave94]

*Eastside Low Bottoms shit !*
Essence Magazine
B.E.T.
white _owned,_ Black _targeted._

[@maiamiimaiam4343]

Not anymore

[@eveemcghee4454]

​@@maiamiimaiam4343okay but this video is from 1988 so whats your point

[@maiamiimaiam4343]

@@eveemcghee4454 are you white

[@eveemcghee4454]

​@@maiamiimaiam4343 im wondering the same about you...? not anymore is irrelevant

[@PrettynBetween]

What's the name of this talk show ?

[@GETYOBAGMONIQUE]

They say this all started with the Willie Lynch law.

[@Truemalonemusic]

Was this show based in Philly/South Jersey? I ask because of the area codes of the numbers

[@jazzminegoddess7968]

I’m so happy and grateful that Essence Magazine isn’t just a “black womans magazine” now it’s a “magazine” the testament to their success and longevity is inspirational. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@getitgirl60]

Booh

[@soulfullywise165]

Since 1619...
It's not new.
It needs, to be discussed.
Until, it'sa discussion we can bring it to the table, it will remain...

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

Agreed

[@user-hg3iv5hy3s]

30 mins in!!! He had the best point

[@Aariyan096]

I realized Miki was a judge on ANTM🎉

[@tias.6675]

I disagree with Lawson about not modeling the average black person. I don't care about representation, but also would like to see people who are clearly of my ethnic group (Black American).

[@vatricegeorge]

Good hair, good features?

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

I know what the hell!!! She said it like it’s a fact. Some of us repeat that shit and don’t see shit wrong with it

[@thadevilzadvocate]

I don’t care about what this good hair crap is I’m bald I like being bald could never tell I’m my age I don’t have hair so I don’t have any gray hair. I like being a bald bull.

[@BlessAminata]

@@kudjoeadkins-battle2502it’s embedded in some of us sadly ! But that was their plan ! I hear it all the time how some one has “that good hair” because it’s more European looking and not Afro . But this way of thinking was the plan !

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

@@BlessAminata I don’t believe in the idea of it being a plan. But the fact is we have subconsciously taken on the ideals of the mainstream. The sad thing is we’re don’t question why we think as we do.

[@sirharry3051]

As a Black elder who is neither light nor necessarily dark, I can honestly tell you how HER type would let that mess ooze from her cheap lip gloss slathered lips. She has internalized hatred for Black people in spite of how many alleged dark skinned Black friends she proclaims and dark skinned Black men she’s opened her legs to. White dudes have never checked for her I can safely assume for a few reasons.
1: She looks and sounds like a transsexual.
2: White folks can very accurately spot a person with the most scant amount of African ancestry regardless to how Eurocentric one’s features can present.
3: She’s from a lower class sect of white folks whom the average white deem as “White Trash”. Her Black parent surely isn’t too high on the food chain of acceptance and class.
So, the chick is bitter, trying her best to immolate ignorant type Blacks’ distaste for “passing” and light skinned Black folks yet contradicting this assumed concern and disappointment in colorism. Yet she’s a colorist.
She looks and sounds like a preOp transsexual Creole from New Orleans.
As a people, We Black people need to be a bit more knowledgable and willing to give these folks that work letting them know that we’re not down with them games.

[@NatJac-gg3mv]

The young guy at 44 mins had no clue and really didn’t want to answer the question.

[@Meee22222]

I don't think he wanted to understand. He just wanted to be stubborn.

[@sirharry3051]

Ole porky was or is simply mentally delayed and racist. His look denotes a history of both incest and fetal alcohol syndrome…otherwise very bad genetics. He may even be intersex (Hermaphrodite) based also on his looks and his oddly female sounding voice.

[@eveemcghee4454]

Maybe its not something that can ever be fully understood without it being a lived experience

[@NatJac-gg3mv]

@@eveemcghee4454 every true.

[@GETYOBAGMONIQUE]

I remember Ebony magazine I never knew they did that though

[@JG_SmileSOBright]

I've admired Mikki Taylor's beauty since I was a child. She is gorgeous 🥰

[@eveemcghee4454]

I wish they had let the lady from Essence speak a little more or at least she could have come prepared with some magazine covers, I assume she was on the show partially to defend and promote the magazine

[@AGirlCalledNicole]

Good features and good hair???

[@2008Sanai]

Watching this in 2023

[@soleilcorcoran2108]

The absolute eloquence of the black man with the pink shirt!

[@PHlophe]

your name is giving Soleil Moon . i forgot the rest of her name

[@soleilcorcoran2108]

Soleil moon Frye played punky Brewster lol

[@PHlophe]

@@soleilcorcoran2108 Yes yes yes exactly that is who i was thinking of. i could see the face but couldn't remember where i'd seen her from. that show takes me back to Kindergarten days

[@bluejay9968]

Sadly, we are calling everything black. 1/4th, 1/5th, etc, what is black?

[@sirharry3051]

Answer: Your void where a soul technically should be and your broken moral compass

[@eveemcghee4454]

Do you not know about the 1 drop rule? What do they teach you kids in school? Are you from outside the U.S.?

[@SexyAzzHell93]

I knew a girl named Toni in high school who was mixed and she was very fair skinned and had wavy hair and she was sweet.

[@jediwalker2010]

…and?

[@calit5861]

So?

[@taurus_beauty11-11]

💕

[@MissNolver]

I was expecting more....😄

[@eveemcghee4454]

Lmao shoutout to Toni

[@malinaonyach8564]

I'm dark skinned sister I sat on the train beside a light skinned black man and he jumped up fast I'm just sitting down he didn't want to be around a dark skinned woman if I was a white woman blond he would have been trying to get my phone number and be all on me.

[@TatyanaBuie]

Black ppl but black men esp can be so racist to one another it’s crazy

[@sirharry3051]

You’re making up💩

[@stoleethatsme]

another insecure and melodramatic black woman who doesnt actually know what was behind his getting up so you of course create some dumbasss'' story and throw a white woman in it which is so typical. you are so pathetic and insecure. made it about your skin tone with zero insight as to why he got up. you could be large and he wanted more room, talking on your phone, you had a lot of stuff with you, a child with you or maybe just maybe he wanted to actually be alone. get over yourself smdfh. you talking about trying to get someones number, your sour behind mustve wanted him to talk to you. same ol BS

[@thetruesoulofanaquarius9302]

I have never in my life had this happen to me lol I am a darkskinned black woman.

[@artisticagi]

6:20 that was deep
44:45 that question was too deep for the white boy

[@sirharry3051]

Was it really a boy tho? It looks and sounds more like it needs a sexual reassignment kit.

[@oliviaclarke6683]

44:45, watching him process that question was the best part of the show to me.

[@karishajohnson6537]

The host handled this topic very well!

[@user-hg3iv5hy3s]

Just around 36-37 mins in a young woman who has light skin speaks about her experience at an all White school in Cali where she was the only Black student. - how she went into a pool and the white students made comments about her hair - and she felt “different” (othered - in todays terms). She said that she was (at the time of the talk show) attending an all Black school and that she’s proud to be Black. That was followed by her mom saying that she instilled values of Black pride in her daughter. Then Ms Taylor from essence says - and that’s where it should start - at home(or something like that)
I felt that whole exchange needed to be dug into more deeply because it obviously isn’t just what parents instill in their kids. That’s even more true today when we have an even more pervasive form of media and marketing that conditions our minds. The remedy must be BOTH AND. At home we MUST instill pride in who we are - the full range of expressions of Blackness and we must know our true history. However we need the media messaging to change to more positive and diverse images of Black people - but with a special emphasis on celebrating the parts of Blackness that have been most consistently maligned- that is…
Dark skin
Wide noses
Kinky, curl pattern free, short hair
And Black people of different faiths and “classes” too. There are behaviors that are considers more acceptable in society that are rooted in white supremacy. We need to look at that too. At the end of the day - it doesn’t matter how one speaks or dresses, or what faith they practice or even what sexual orientation one is… The values must be oriented towards who stands for unity, who is caring, who stands with integrity, who is modeling healthy self care, who champions mental expansion through curiosity and who is happy to share their unique gifts with the world. THOSE are the good qualities that will move us forward as a people. A Black person from any phenotype and any economic class, from any faction of the diaspora, or even any subculture within Black America who exhibits those traits should feel like and be seen by others as a source of great pride.
The pathway to healing is to know thyself and heal thyself first and foremost and to start with a shift in our values. Then we need to understand that as a community - we each have a role to play in our collective advancement that goes beyond economic profit! If the magazine sells because lighter women with a loose curl pattern stand as representations of what is “good” about Black women - for example - then the magazine needs to do much better! If it is truly BLACK people at the helm of the media outlets we have a responsibility to do our part and ensure there is more healthy and varied representation and that it is, in fact - as the man on the panel with the locks 30 years ago said, more skewed towards celebrating all the things we malign about Blackness. We need to lean further into celebrating wide noses and short 4C hair, and brown eyes that are nearly black, and Black people who don’t live in proximity to white standards of cultural relevancy. We have to take this on at multiple levels, from multiple angles and it absolutely cannot only happen at home.

[@Meee22222]

4:53 is a young Tucker Carlson

[@sirharry3051]

Just far less intelligent and no less closer to his Neanderthal bloodlines.

[@SOULarLioness]

Well first of all, she's BIRACIAL, which isn't the same as a FULLY-BLACK light-skinned person. Smh.

[@dmg.2443]

Fully black and light skinned is an oxymoron. Where do you think light skin comes from? Fully black really isn't even a thing unless you were born somewhere in Africa.

[@REALSTREETNIGGAMUZIK]

@@dmg.2443 False! Go learn some more before you try and speak facts.

[@Knizzle28]

Nowadays we know a bit better that this did not originate within our community

[@mujahudin]

It's a form of self hate & preposterous!

[@SunshineState-ou7pr]

There is no such thing as good hair. All kinds of hair is good and serves a purpose, depending on how manageable it is. Hair can be in bad condition or good condition. Straight hair is supposed easier to deal with and more manageable at times, so its more chosen and desired. Black has always been beautiful and still is, our people just have to understand its not your fault when others look at you and reject your features. I have never been a fan of large noses whether long and stubby or broad and wide, but some people are still attractive and cannot help what they were born with.

[@fatnfrail]

Her and this "Better Hair" thing is irking my nerveeee

[@speakingfromthecloset6767]

Google Edward Lawson and read about his he -represented himself in his in a U.S. District Court.

[@JB-uh1jx]

light skin people getting bullied isn’t colourism. touching stories though

[@madameclark3453]

ADOS are stuck in a loop.

[@nathancoleman7235]

at that time I really hated these daytime talk shows.the purpose of putting on topics like this(something related to race like this one) and other controversial subjects was just for ratings.this seemed to be their lifeline- high ratings.that is sort of sad.

[@joymartin4640]

This guy is such a terrible host lmaoo

[@beb5407]

Camden High School student in the building thats awesome. NJ 😊

[@WilliamAllikzander]

This is like worthwhile and also dumb.
I’m glad I wasn’t raised to care about it.

[@sirharry3051]

LOL! You’re still young and living in an imaginary bubble. ⏳

[@GreenLantern1971.]

A lot of the people that say they are light skinned are not

[@eveemcghee4454]

?¿?¿?¿?¿?

[@stoleethatsme]

darker skin people will say and treat many people a certain way after having called them that for merely being LIGHTER than them. keep up

[@GreenLantern1971.]

@@stoleethatsme some dark skinned people want to be light and some light want to be dark skinned. My sister is stuck on the light skinned thing.my nephews father is dark and my sister drilled into my nephews head that he is light skinned when in fact he is not. The majority of my family is light complexed and he feels left out. Racism is the father of colorism. The light skinned side of the family doesn’t get along with the dark skinned side. Black kids in my neighborhood were called blue black, black assss, chocolate, dark and the light skinned people were called half white, yella boy, light skinned. Colorism along with slavery effed is up and caused us to be hated by the WT man and each other. I’m 52 years old, so I am speaking on what I saw and heard.

[@JG_SmileSOBright]

What's considered light or dark relates to your own family. Light, to me, looks like the actress Lonette McKee... BC the light skinned people in my family look like that. I consider myself dark skinned for the same reason. However, whenever I say I'm dark skinned, I'm always told that I'm light from someone who is darker than me.

[@creekboie3277]

The guy with the dreads is intelligent but creeps me out 😅

[@StopTheLiess]

I don't believe the dark skinned girl. She just needed to refute the biracial woman experiences. I see dark skinned people giving light skin people a hard time not the other way around.

[@angelahunter5954]

Lies, I have light skinned relatives and friends who are hateful to dark skinned people...dark skinned people don't even think of them with any significance

[@stoleethatsme]

EXACTLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. ive aways seen and heard darker if not extremely darker people talking crap about other peoples skin and giving them a hard time and i am from the south. from comedians to everyday people all of a darker shade talking the most junk about peoples skin tone whether joking or insulting especially the women. nothing tops that of a sour and bitter dark skin black woman

[@purplelove3666]

Ok, research why hbcus were made

[@StopTheLiess]

because of Jim Crow and segregation not because of colorism within black people@@purplelove3666

[@JG_SmileSOBright]

​@@stoleethatsmeas someone w a very dark skinned mother, you are absolutely right. I'd bet my life that my mother wouldn't think I was pretty if I looked like her. She LOVES that I look like my Dad.

[@whitenuttergoku7310]

How did people use to watch such low quality films

[@kmaben8985]

It's old. Didn't air that way.

[@sirharry3051]

Is it “low quality” because light has been shed on your white supremacist antics against Black folks and the offspring you forcibly produced using Black people?

[@JorgeUgarte-wk7dt]

One thing for sure light skin woman is more hot than dark skin woman and everybody knows that

[@eveemcghee4454]

Imagine this being your take

[@honks9484]

Why do you think this??? And what about brown skins/redbones??

[@thetruesoulofanaquarius9302]

​@@honks9484 lightskinned is close to white.

[@honks9484]

@@thetruesoulofanaquarius9302 Just get a white girl then????

[@blackpanda7298]

I don’t like this host, let the people finish what they’re saying before you cut them off.

[@ORISONTV]

So fucken what 😅

[@eveemcghee4454]

Why did you bother commenting then

[@ORISONTV]

So fricken what 😅

[@frog5104]

Where is Edward now??? He died from AIDS

[@kisha4040]

Wow. He looked sick.

[@kimnietvantoepassing]

How do know?

[@kellsjoy3078]

Wrong. It was cancer, in 2011.

[@tmajec]

@frog5104 you are a troll

[@frog5104]

Edward didn’t live there just look at him . The cops did their job

[@getitgirl60]

And what job is that??

[@fulviadurham5652]

✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏻

[@soag3526]

Eddie Murphy choosing the lighter skinned sister in Coming to America.He is part of the issue .His wives are light .

[@soag3526]

Jon Mwan And now you know

[@timmybarns3917]

Ok?

[@bethr8756]

But what if they're more attractive to him?

[@mauricesantinomf]

He's married to a while ass white woman now it's worse than that

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

@@bethr8756attraction is learned.

[@lia_gem3836]

Wow Thank you

[@yolandairene]

Thank you

[@ChelseaAlana]

I think a lot of black people have a hard time with EMPATHY. Just because someone has a different struggle does NOT mean your struggle is worse or better. Of course there is colorism however it doesnt help the situation by having black people fight among themselves. I can only speak to my struggle has a lighter skin female as to how I would sometimes been automatically seen as stuck up, boogie or self center due to my skin color and that was a form of 'colorism' put on me by majority other darker skin black people. Dark skin people talk about with 'privilege' as if other races care about whether or not if your a lighter black or a darker black, YOU STILL BLACK. Dark skin people face colorism and light skin people face tokenism (Where they are 'invited' in to white space to fill a quota and is never seen as equal or has a right to be in said places). Everyones struggle is different.

[@firstnamelastname4427]

People hurting your feelings isn't colorism. Also, yes, you do have privilege associated with having lighter skin.

[@Studioladya]

Tokenism is something everyone ignores. All around the world this is the problem. Men having the power of a standard of beauty they perceive for profit and control over all women. Keep them insecure and you have control. All continents have the same issue. The light against the dark n the yt skin in control of that. But the yr man isn’t in the room with you telling you to choose your woman. Which will create your children. And influence them based off you choosing her as a standard as beauty and acceptance. It started from the fathers. Picking the better looking daughter for trade for land and goods and marrying off. Mothers and fathers did it today. Grandmothers have been picking the lighter hair. The lighter skin child over the darker for centuries. It’s starts at home. I am light n mixed n look very mixed but I was exposed mostly to mix culture from a blk experience. I have never ever been seen as full blk or blk enough still. N it amazes me that if u have one drop of either ppl treat u like crap. Bc ya just a token for w them to prove a point.

[@paigealexander5601]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@firstnamelastname4427The black community calls everybody light skin who isn’t the darkest hue . The woman you claim to have light skin privilege is clearly a brown skin woman , but might be light to some . That’s the comical part about alleged “colorism” people have different opinions of what is light or dark.

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

It’s not about the individual. You sound ridiculous comparing your individual experience to real problems

[@stoleethatsme]

@@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 you are full of crap as are several black people so im not surprised by your response, everythign isnt about you

[@TRUBLKGD]

Light skin, does it glow in the dark?

[@theduke6174]

Does white skin glow in the dark?
What type of question is that?

[@cosmicneuromelanatedgoddess]

​@@theduke6174 It means there is no such thing as "light skin", because it doesn't "Glow".
That's what type of question it is.

[@cosmicneuromelanatedgoddess]

​@@theduke6174 It means there is no such thing as "light skin", because it doesn't "Glow".
That's what type of question it is.

[@paigealexander5601]

Does darkskin appear in the light 💡? This comment screams low iq. If there’s no such thing as light skin then there’s no such thing as darkskin. Dark is not considered a color.

[@femininevibes2213]

I don't know what you are😂😂