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Explain The Discrimination They Face
Topic Started: Nov 21 2015, 04:28 PM (744 Views)
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True dat,true dat!

There are plenty of Black racists out there.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/13/colorism-discrimination-iyanla-vanzant_n_4588825.html

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On a recent episode of "Oprah's Lifeclass," Iyanla Vanzant joined Oprah to discuss the issue of colorism, the prejudices people can face based on the lightness or darkness of their skin tone. While many understand colorism as the discrimination against darker-skinned African-Americans, two of Oprah's lighter-skinned audience members surprise Iyanla with the colorism discrimination they face as well.

Though one of the women has seen first-hand how some of her darker-skinned family members are treated, she says that she, too, struggled with discrimination. "Being a light-skinned girl, you get called names," she tells Iyanla. "You get called 'lite-brite,' you get called 'high yellow,' 'redbone.' This is a reality every day."

Having longer hair or lighter skin, she continues, makes others in her community assume she thinks she is prettier than them -- something she says simply isn't true. "You're alienated from your own people. You're never black enough," she says. "But we're still black in America. None of us feel advantaged."

Iyanla finds this prejudice against lighter-skinned black women very interesting. "Both the dark and the light are experiencing the same thing at different ends of the spectrum," she says before turning to the woman who had shared her story. "You got insulted by being called 'high yellow' or 'redbone,' but somebody [darker] being called a 'coon,' a 'jiggaboo,' and a 'monkey,' --"

"We're called that too," another light-skinned audience member interrupts. "We're called 'coon' and 'jiggaboo' and all those same things too. We're still called that on top of 'light bright' and all those other things."

"So the outside world that sees you as just a black person heaps the black stuff on you and then within the community, you get it," Iyanla says. "Wow."

Also in the video, one of the audience members explains the only way she believes real healing can begin, prompting Iyanla to give Oprah a "tweetable moment."
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You know, this and other like topics will not die until the human race becomes one genetic species. When skin tone will meet in the middle of each end of the spectrum.
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Zechariah
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Nov 21 2015, 11:10 PM
You know, this and other like topics will not die until the human race becomes one genetic species. When skin tone will meet in the middle of each end of the spectrum.
Some people choose to obsess over trivial matters, while the important ones go unattended.
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Zechariah
Nov 21 2015, 11:13 PM
Can't Help It
Nov 21 2015, 11:10 PM
You know, this and other like topics will not die until the human race becomes one genetic species. When skin tone will meet in the middle of each end of the spectrum.
Some people choose to obsess over trivial matters, while the important ones go unattended.
All the damn time....that's why the whole world is screwed up. Wasting time on BS and the important stuff is left dangling.........but you already knew that ;)
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...makes sense...


two of satan's lightskinned-racist demons run here to claim that the worst thing hurting America, yon Colorism, now really isn't the absolute worst thing that hurts America thx to White racism.




skinny: Nope! Real Black people do not believe yall's sorryAZZ.
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It's already been proven , that the Negro is one on the most hateful animals on the earth.
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Mulatto/bi-racial History Month

http://s1.zetaboards.com/Express_Yourself/topic/5768355/1/
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Nov 21 2015, 04:28 PM
"You got insulted by being called 'high yellow' or 'redbone,' but somebody [darker] being called a 'coon,' a 'jiggaboo,' and a 'monkey,' --"

"We're called that too," another light-skinned audience member interrupts. "We're called 'coon' and 'jiggaboo' and all those same things too. We're still called that on top of 'light bright' and all those other things."
Where do these women live?
Edited by kennyinbmore, Nov 22 2015, 08:39 PM.
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Nov 22 2015, 05:43 PM
COLORISM

Posted on July 1, 2015 by melinatedmary

Any skin tone closer to white skin has its privileges across many minorities facing the same issue. Places where people of color are they are trying to be lighter, they are bombarded by Western standards of beauty.

Western countries have a huge media outlet which is able to produce white is right and everything else should step to the side. In the black community, some dark skin women want to be lighter, and wish they had a mixture of other races to feel validated as “beautiful”.

White supremacy a system which honors people of western descent more privileges than the minorities .
Western TV is destroying our people. They will first destroy the darkest of our people because they are the ones keeping the so called “race” if you will going.

They will downgrade us by making it harder to get an education which leads to a job, which decreases the rate of crime. They are going to make it harder for us because they fear us. Our ability to unite and prosper.

They will definitely get rid of the darkest ones in order to kill their seeds so they do not breed, in order to dominate us. Society portrays array of opportunities however that’s not the case.

House blacks were light skinned blacks, that did not have it easy even though they were kept inside the house.

They were prone to: rapes, incest, beatings, the wife of slave owner was jealous of her so she will beat her herself, throwing her out of the street and making her sleep in inhumane conditions. No way light skin blacks had it better it was a different kind of slavery.

Sometimes there was some kind of preferred treatment, however we (blacks) took to the next level by hating them due to special treatment that we perceived it to be. We need to heal this deeply rooted wound, which is spreading through each generation.

If we do not stop, we are going teach our offspring the superiority complex and you know it’s a lie! Your black, brown skin is right. If we could only strengthen the sisterhood by removing this issue.

There will be nothing holding us back.

Black is portrayed as evil, nasty but light is pure, innocent. We are still one, fighting the same fight, fighting the same enemy white supremacy.

White supremacy is a system that keeps things in place so that the black people will idolize western standard of beauty to make them bleach their own skin and hate themselves from within. If you don’t like yourself you are not going to treat yourself well. If I don’t treat myself well. I would not treat the other people that look like me well.

We need to love and appreciate our range of tones in the black community. The idea of competing with each other derives from slavery. They do not want us to unite, if we do other races will follow suit. The next trend will be dark skin. Do not allow society to define you.
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Nov 23 2015, 11:29 AM

White supremacy system which honors people of western descent more privileges than the minorities [Western TV] is destroying our people. They will first destroy the darkest of our people because they are the ones keeping the so called “race” if you will going.


They will downgrade us by making it harder to get an education which leads to a job, which decreases the rate of crime. They are going to make it harder for us because they fear us. Our ability to unite and prosper.

They will definitely get rid of the darkest ones in order to kill their seeds so they do not breed, in order to dominate us. Society portrays array of opportunities however that’s not the case.

House blacks were light skinned blacks, that did not have it easy even though they were kept inside the house...
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