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you're afraid of the "Morris Chestnutt thread" ??
Topic Started: Jul 14 2013, 12:06 PM (606 Views)
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So If you chase me around the forum telling lies about how I'm the only one speaking on lightskinned-racism???...then keep avoiding that Morris Chestnutt thread! Yep. Stay your devilish azz away from the chunks of meat dropped, in there.


I don't think, I ever said, you were the ONLY dummy, you do belong to a long line of ignorance. Here's some grown up advice..

"just because you believe it, doesn't make it true"...let that seep into your rocks, and hopefully, just maybe....

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If you chase me around the forum telling lies that lightskinned-Blacks are treated the same as darkies------then yey, you miiiiight wanna keep your lying azz out of the Morris Chestnutt thread.


Why would smart people, even engage someone with you lack of intelligence? We, (sorry, cat out of bag) see you like an animal in the zoo, for our amusement!

Simple amusement...

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If you hate being Black


Based off your posts, you're hate being black...That's something for those that bore you, not the invisible 'society' you wish to blame. Ask your parents, why didn't they chose to fuk, and reproduce, with a lighter skinned person. In hopes of saving their offspring the burden's on being so dark.

Seems you weren't worth...

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so much, that you use your lightskin to enjoy Whiteskin privileges----as you turn around and then hold Blackfolk's hostage within your show of love for your Whiteness quotient?.....then yes, you might commit suicide if you go in that Morris Chestnutt thread.


Suicide....hummmm...

I would think if there is a suicide line, some of your very own children, yes, you, the person, advocating discrimination of dark skinned people, his own brood will be in that line.

Considering, you've added to the 'group' of light-skinned privilege, what's your plan to save them, for their own daddy? Are you taking your 'short comings' out on them? Teaching them, yea, my intent was to add to the count, so my message would continue on?

My little brother, you have no credible, none, zilch....Your insecurities stem from height, not color. Instead of dealing with your little man syndrome, you want to deflect onto other issues.

Get a new battle cry, this one, you just look like an idiot, and your talent at amusing is horrible...I rather have this monkey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=DzZqje04vLE

or this one....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YYVwVvCn2Zs

Now, aren't they amusing...and funny!
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reddgirl64
Jul 16 2013, 10:05 AM
Now, aren't they amusing...and funny!
Yes, since you hate being Black, then I can understand why you feel that way.

So here, you have company:


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STUDY: Light-Skin Blacks Preferred Over Dark-Skin Ones


Dec 21, 2011



By Terrell Jermaine Starr


As much as we would prefer not to discuss it, skin tone complications of the past still afflict the psyche of present-day America, according to an article by TheGrio. And, to be sure, the studies the article cites don’t isolate the issue to the black community alone. Rather, the studies report that the issue is pervasive in mainstream America as well.

The study reports that mixed-race people are socially placed below whites, but ahead of blacks. Moreover, the article cites another study that reveals dark-skin black women are given stiffer prison sentences than their lighter-skin counterparts.


The study, which sampled over 12,000 black women imprisoned in North Carolina between 1995 and 2009, showed that light-skinned women were sentenced to 12 percent less time behind bars than their darker-skinned counterparts. The results also showed that having light skin reduces the actual time served by 11 percent.

Even employers seem to prefer the lighter-skin blacks among us:


A 2006 University of Georgia study showed that employers prefer light-skinned black men to dark-skinned men, regardless of their qualifications. We found that a light-skinned black male can have only a Bachelor’s degree and typical work experience and still be preferred over a dark-skinned black male with an MBA and past managerial positions,” said Matthew S. Harrison in 2006, then a doctoral student in applied industrial organizational psychology at Georgia.

But when it is not mainstream society (code words for white folks), it is people within our own community making light of our historical pain:


In Oct. 2007, a Detroit party promoter caused an uproar when he promoted a party giving free admission to light-skinned women only. Ulysses Barnes — or “DJ Lish” — promoted a party for “Light Skinned Women & All Libras” but promptly cancelled it after women and activist groups protested the party’s premise.

Barns’ defense of the party theme was hardly comforting. The Michigan Citizen quoted him as saying “he had plans for “Sexy Chocolate’’ and “Sexy Caramel’’ parties too, and that “it was just a party thing.’’ Read the rest of the article to see how other women didn’t see his casual reflection of his ill-conceived party theme as “just a party thing.”


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Documentary, studies renew debate about skin color's impact



By L.A. Johnson / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette


Race is still the elephant in society's sitting room. Race consciousness is ubiquitous, yet so deep-seated as to seem almost invisible.

Many people, minorities included, don't realize the assumptions they make based on race. A subset of racism is colorism -- discrimination based on skin tone.

An award-winning documentary and two recent academic studies examine perceptions based on differences in skin tone. Academics who study issues of race say the findings are disheartening but not surprising. In the seven-minute documentary "A Girl Like Me," 18-year-old Kiri Davis interviews teenage African-American girls about the beauty standards society imposes on them and how those standards affect their self-esteem.

"You're [considered] prettier if you're light-skinned," says one teen, Glenda, in the film.

"I used to think of myself as being ugly because I was dark-skinned," says another teen, Jennifer.

Other teens share stories about knowing young women who have even bleached their skin to look lighter.

Miss Davis, a senior at Urban Academy High School in New York City, also recreates psychologist Kenneth Clark's legendary 1940s "Doll Test" in the film and obtains similar results. Dr. Clark's research was used to challenge school segregation in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education.

In the documentary, Miss Davis gives black preschool children two dolls, identical except for their color. One is black, the other, white.

She asks a little girl to show her the nice doll. The little girl holds up the white doll.

"Can you show me the doll that looks bad?"

The little girl holds up the black doll.

"Why does that look bad?"

"Because it's black," the little girl says.

She asks why the little girl thinks the other doll is the nice doll.

"Because she's white," the child says.

"Can you give me the doll that looks like you?"

The little girl hesitates -- looking back and forth at both dolls, first grabbing the white doll -- then, looking a bit sad, she reluctantly pushes forward the black doll.

Fifteen of the 21 children interviewed said they preferred the white doll.

"I learned how easily we can internalize things," says Miss Davis, who made the documentary in 2005 through the Reel Works Teen Filmmaking after-school program. "Even at 4 or 5 years old, you get the message, you get what society values and what it doesn't."

To view the film -- visit: www.mediathatmattersfest.org/6/a_girl_like_me/

It's been shown at more than a dozen film festivals and won nine awards, including the Media That Matters Diversity Award and the SILVERDOCS Audience Award for a Short Documentary.

Skewed hiring


In a University of Georgia study, light-skinned black men had the edge in hiring over dark-skinned black men, regardless of credentials.

"We found that a light-skinned black male can have only a bachelor's degree and typical work experience and still be preferred over a dark-skinned black male with an MBA and past managerial positions," says Matthew S. Harrison, a University of Georgia doctoral student in applied industrial organizational psychology, who presented his research in August to the Academy of Management in Atlanta.

"This finding is possibly due to the common belief that fair-skinned blacks probably have more similarities with whites than do dark-skinned blacks, which in turn makes whites feel more comfortable around them."

With women job applicants, the findings varied a bit.

"If the credentials were different, in the case of women, the more qualified or experienced darker-skinned woman got it, but if the qualifications were identical, the lighter-skinned woman was preferred," Mr. Harrison said.

He surveyed 240 undergraduates -- 72 percent of them were female, and 87.5 percent of them were white. Students were asked to rate one of two resumes that accompanied one of three photographs of a theoretical black job applicant whose skin color was light, medium or dark.

"Most females, having been judged on aesthetics, may have been more attuned to looking at qualifications and resumes," Mr. Harrison said. "Women looked to attractiveness only when the qualifications were equal."

He believes the high percentage of women study participants also may have skewed the results regarding male job applicants.

"The darker a dark-skinned male is, the more violent and menacing he is perceived to be," he said, recalling how Time magazine darkened the O.J. Simpson mug shot on its June 27, 1994 cover, making him look more sinister.


Light vs. dark

"Our society has historically painted us a picture of lighter skin equating to attractiveness, intelligence, competence, likeability, etc.," Mr. Harrison says. "Racism is not necessarily a practice that allots preference and privilege based solely on one's race, but that one's skin color also plays a substantial role in the treatment they will receive."

Shawn Alfonso-Wells, a visiting assistant professor of anthropology in Carnegie Mellon University's history department, has studied racial classification in Cuba and the United States.

"Here we are in the 21st century and once again those relationships that were forged under enslavement are coming to light again, all that between the domestic [house slave] and the field [slave]," Dr. Alfonso-Wells says. "If you had lighter skin, your conditions weren't as harsh. Those who were lighter skinned had more opportunities to escape their conditions than those who had darker skin, and you can still see that today."

In Latin America, in particular, lighter-skinned people tend to get the better jobs because they are considered to look "more presentable," Dr. Alfonso-Wells says.

"More presentable translated to -- they looked more white," she says.

In her study, " 'Shades of Beauty': Examining the Relationship of Skin Color to Perceptions of Physical Attractiveness," University of Missouri-Columbia researcher Cynthia Frisby found that people perceive a light brown skin tone, on blacks as well as whites, to be more physically attractive than a pale or dark skin tone.

As part of the study, photographs of four female models were adjusted using computer software. Keeping other features the same, each model was pictured in three different skin tones, light, medium and dark.

Dr. Frisby asked 79 female college students -- 45 white women and 34 black women ages 18 to 28 -- to evaluate the photographs, which they thought were for an upcoming ad campaign. And 78 of the 79 women chose the light brown skin tone as more attractive.

"Whether we want to admit it or not, black, white or whatever, we have a bias about what we think is attractive," says Dr. Frisby, an associate professor of advertising in the University of Missouri's journalism school. Her study was published in the August issue of the journal "Facial Plastic Surgery."

"We can't fix it until we are aware of it," she said. "I don't think that advertisers realize they lean toward the middle, the Halle Berry person."

In her Cuban research, Dr. Alfonso-Wells noted that Cuban people also consider the middle ground the optimum skin color, not dark and not really light, but more medium.

'Cultural wounding'


Jerome Taylor, an associate professor in Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and executive director of the Center for Family Excellence, has done research on the harmful effects of racism on African-Americans' emotional, physical and social health.

Negative perceptions based on skin tone are one aspect of "cultural wounding" black people experience living in a majority culture, he said.

"A more direct measure of cultural wounding [is] -- internalized racism, the tendency of blacks to identify with racist stereotypes about blacks," says Dr. Taylor, who currently is working on a paper examining how the United States' cultural history contributes to cultural wounding.

"The Frisby study ... is consistent with our general proposition of cultural wounding since blacks do not differ significantly from whites in their perception of skin tone, and the video 'A Girl Like Me' provides evidence that cultural wounding is still very much alive and takes root quite early -- between 3 and 5 years of age," Dr. Taylor said.

Mr. Harrison found the issues represented in Miss Davis' recreated doll test to be disheartening.

"It's amazing to me the prevalence of that still in 2006, but at the same time, if you look at images on television, they've changed somewhat, but they really haven't changed that much," Mr. Harrison says. "Whiteness is still very much equated with normalcy and that has an influence on the way we perceive what is normal and what is deviant.

"Tragically, it's really not that surprising."


Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sectionfront/life/documentary-studies-renew-debate-about-skin-colors-impact-465158/#ixzz2ZDf04VyQ
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Yes, since you hate being Black, then I can understand why you feel that way.


Typical response, when you know, you don't have a let to stand on!

Your 'dancing' around, would make some cocky, however I'm expected to know better, whereas, you're expected to do, exactly what you did....

Imagine, someone allowing you to speak on their behalf....picture the monkey's....
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Don't address me, address the links address the facts address the Exhibits.

Please.

Name-call those authors, tell them they are jealous of lightskinned-Blacks and that's the only reason their articles exist.

Please. Go ahead and lay out that rehearsed argument of yours.






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Don't address me, address the links address the facts address the Exhibits.


When, you want to bring in anyone to assist you with your nonsense, I will annihilate them, as I do you!

You're the fool posting here. They rely on your stupidity, in stating what they know, they can't get away with, with me on the job... :D

Besides, are they adding to the light-skinned privelege population, like you?

Don't address me, WTF? you were begging for my attention, now you running. Get the hell outta here, you love-seat, remote control, jet magazine reading activist!
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