| Honorary reddgirl thread: parte deux! | |
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| Topic Started: Nov 19 2015, 05:42 PM (656 Views) | |
| U Thant | Nov 19 2015, 05:42 PM Post #1 |
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| U Thant | Nov 19 2015, 05:45 PM Post #2 |
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Exhibit A: Yep. Even GOP Republicans are in the vid saying it is, racist, to give preferential treatment to Blacks on the basis of lightskinnedness. |
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| U Thant | Nov 19 2015, 05:51 PM Post #3 |
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Exhibit B: Yep. Even lightskinned Min. Farrakhan admits it and admonishes it. He refuses to benefit from racism's lightskinned-privileges any longer. |
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| U Thant | Nov 19 2015, 05:54 PM Post #4 |
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Exhibit C: http://racerelations.about.com/od/understandingrac1/a/What-Is-Colorism.htm Exactly what is colorism? An old children’s rhyme captures the definition in a nutshell. “If you’re black, stay back; if you’re brown, stick around; if you’re yellow, you’re mellow; if you’re white, you’re all right.” In sum, colorism refers to discrimination based on skin color. Colorism disadvantages dark-skinned people, while privileging those with lighter skin. Research has linked colorism to smaller incomes, lower marriage rates, longer prison terms and fewer job prospects for darker-skinned people. What’s more, colorism has existed for centuries both in and outside of black America. That makes it a persistent form of discrimination that should be fought with the same urgency that racism is. Colorism’s Origins How did colorism surface? In the United States, colorism has roots in slavery. That’s because slave-owners typically gave preferential treatment to slaves with fairer complexions. While dark-skinned slaves toiled outdoors in the fields, their light-skinned counterparts usually worked indoors completing domestic tasks that were far less grueling. Why the discrepancy? Slave-owners were partial to light-skinned slaves because they were often family members. Slave-owners frequently engaged in sexual intercourse with slave women, and light-skinned offspring were the telltale signs of these unions. While slave-owners did not officially recognize their mixed-race children as blood, they gave them privileges that dark-skinned slaves did not enjoy. Accordingly, light skin came to be viewed as an asset among the slave community. While European colonialism has undoubtedly left its mark on countries worldwide, colorism is said to predate contact with Europeans in various Asian countries. There, the idea that white skin is superior to dark skin may derive from the ruling classes typically having lighter complexions than the peasant classes. While peasants became sun-tanned as they labored outdoors day in and day out, the privileged had lighter complexions because they didn’t have to work in the sun for hours daily. Thus, dark skin came to be associated with the lower classes and light skin with the elite. Today, the high premium on light skin in Asia is likely tangled up with this history along with the cultural influences of the Western world. An Enduring Legacy After slavery ended in the U.S., colorism didn’t disappear. In black America, those with light-skin received employment opportunities off limits to darker-skinned African Americans. This is why upper-class families in black society were largely light-skinned. Soon, light skin and privilege were considered one in the same in the black community, with light skin being the sole criterion for acceptance into the black aristocracy. Upper crust blacks routinely administered the brown paper bag test to determine if fellow blacks were light enough to socialize with. “The paper bag would be held against your skin. And if you were darker than the paper bag, you weren’t admitted,” explained Marita Golden, author of Don’t Play in the Sun: One Woman’s Journey Through the Color Complex. Colorism didn’t just involve blacks discriminating against other blacks. Job advertisements from the mid-20th century reveal that African-Americans with light skin clearly believed their coloring would make them more palatable as job candidates. Writer Brent Staples discovered this while searching the archives of newspapers near the Pennsylvania town where he grew up. He noticed that in the 1940s, black job seekers often identified themselves as light-skinned. “Cooks, chauffeurs and waitresses sometimes listed ‘light colored’’ as the primary qualification — ahead of experience, references, and the other important data,” Staples said. “They did it to improve their chances and to reassure white employers who…found dark skin unpleasant or believed that their customers would.” Why Colorism Matters Colorism yields real-world advantages for individuals with light skin. For example, light-skinned Latinos make $5,000 more on average than dark-skinned Latinos, according to Shankar Vedantam, author of The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars and Save Our Lives. Moreover, a Villanova University study of more than 12,000 African-American women imprisoned in North Carolina found that lighter-skinned black women received shorter sentences than their darker-skinned counterparts. Previous research by Stanford psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt found that darker-skinned black defendants were two times more likely than lighter-skinned black defendants to get the death penalty for crimes involving white victims. Colorism doesn’t just play out in the workforce or in the criminal justice system but also in the romantic realm. Because fair skin is associated with beauty and status, light-skinned black women are more likely to be married than darker-skinned black women, according to some reports. “We find that the light-skin shade as measured by survey interviewers is associated with about a 15 percent greater probability of marriage for young black women,” said researchers who conducted a study called “Shedding ‘Light’ on Marriage.” Light skin is so coveted that whitening creams continue to be best-sellers in the U.S., Asia and other nations. Mexican-American women in Arizona, California and Texas have reportedly suffered mercury poisoning after turning to whitening creams to bleach their skin. In India, popular skin-bleaching lines target both women and men with dark skin. That skin-bleaching cosmetics have persisted for decades signals the enduring legacy of colorism. Edited by U Thant, Nov 19 2015, 05:56 PM.
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| UTB | Nov 19 2015, 07:11 PM Post #5 |
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It seems as though you forgot all of the race mixing that occurred in North Africa, didn't you? Blacks people were enslaved, and forced to march hundred of miles under bondage. Funny, none of you Negroes can't seem to remember. Capturing blacks for slavery, was a practiced for centuries, in North Africa. How do you think many Negroes were converted to Islam? You only echo the bullshit that all Negroes such as your self , attempt to put all of your blame on the white man. You Niggas didn't own, or even had ever seen a firearm. You don't take a spear to a gunfight! And to think,some of you invent myths about how great Black Africans were! Bottom line, Black Africans were behind the rest of the civilized world. Any one can be a spear chucker. Let's deal with NOW, not some bullshit about regressive Africans. In better words, Africans weren't hitting on shit! |
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| U Thant | Nov 20 2015, 05:05 AM Post #6 |
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Okaaaaay. Now explain how that has anything to do, with how racist Caucasoid humans' now hate darkskinned-Blacks for no other reason than us being darkskinned?
Okaaaaay. Now explain how that has anything to do, with how racist Caucasoid humans' now hate darkskinned-Blacks for no other reason than us being darkskinned?
Okaaaaay. Now explain how that has anything to do, with how humans' now hate darkskinned-Blacks for no other reason than us being darkskinned?
Okaaaaay. Now explain how that has anything to do, with how humans' now hate darkskinned-Blacks for no other reason than us being darkskinned?
Okay! Finally. Now you appear to realize that your rants had nothing to do, whatsoever, with how humans' now hate darkskinned-Blacks for no other reason than us being darkskinned? Edited by U Thant, Nov 20 2015, 05:06 AM.
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| reddgirl64 | Nov 20 2015, 01:39 PM Post #7 |
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Are you aware, how you daily show young women, to avoid dark skinned men, like you? Why would any woman, want to be around a target for the police? for gangs? discrimination? deadbeat dads? rapist? uneducated? underemployed? It seems, the entire world despises darkies like you, so now, we're going to take your word for it. Ladies, when you see a darkie, cross the street, bad news, according to Blaxx
Thanks for making this public. Keep bringing and making us aware to avoid darkie's like you, at all costs.. |
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| reddgirl64 | Nov 20 2015, 01:42 PM Post #8 |
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Thanks UTB.. Most thugs are criminals, darkies like Blaxx..avoid them, they carry diseases and will rape and rob you. Are we missing anything, Blaxx? What else plagues darkies, like you? |
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| ...fixed | Nov 20 2015, 03:09 PM Post #9 |
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...fixed |
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| dogonstar | Nov 20 2015, 09:00 PM Post #10 |
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Under normal circumstances the phrase "A victim bearing the psychological scars of slavery" could be used to describe the young black man in the following video. But he is so startling new words and phrases may have to be created. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq5tjz5wet0 |
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