is quite light-skinned. All of our facial features are quite similar, so you can tell we're related. All three would be considered pretty. Why then, do other blacks regularly pay more attention to/treat my lighter sister better? What's up with the "light is right" attitudes amongst our people?
2006-08-04 02:44:30 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
I'm from USA.
2006-08-04 03:30:04 · update #1
I have no idea. I've wondered that crap to myself sometimes. Isn't there enough judgment based on the color of a person's skin going on when it really matters? Why should it happen when it really hurts?
2006-08-04 02:48:21 · answer #1 · answered by illustrat_ed_designs 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have had long conversations about this very issue. Hard to say how it originated exactly but of course- I'm sure you know that the house slaves were usually of lighter complexion while the field slaves were usually darker. Have you not heard of the brown paper sack test? the goal was to not be darker than a brown paper grocery sack- folks actually went around comparing their skin to paper sacks! Can you believe that? There were also elite black organizations such as Jack and Jill- for upper class black youth to meet with and hang out with other upper class light skinned youth. its sad that so many blacks have continued to perpetuate the racism placed upon them by whites. its very puzzling to me but still it continues. Racism within the black race of course is totally illogical. Do not let anyone including those of your own race determine your worth based on the shade of your skin.
2006-08-04 09:59:41 · answer #2 · answered by doyalikethatdaddy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
House ***** syndrome. Light skinned blacks were favored by slave owners so they got the good jobs on the plantation. After slavery the smae thing prevailed in schools and highering through the civil rights era. We have been infected with the thinking of the dominate culture "the lighter the beter." It's sick but we've had that s h i t beat into us for 300 years and now reinforced in pop culture. Look at our movie actresses and singers.
2006-08-04 11:39:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well the answer is they apparently are looking for the perfect match light (white) woman with a black womans striking features. I still am a strong believer in the darker the berry the sweeter the fruit.
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2006-08-04 13:10:31 · answer #4 · answered by IvoryGem 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They've been tainted by the whities. Society works it's magic on everyone and society says lighter skin is better. Even though blacks are the ones against whom this discrimination is focused, they still hear it all the time and, eventually, they will get programmed, too.
2006-08-04 09:51:10 · answer #5 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where are you from?
You know ,i'm from sudan so you can say that i'm a dark skinned african.Here in Sudan people sometimes are so goddamn stupid...even though all of us are black....some ignorant northern sudanese think they are better than southern sudanese who are of darker skin(you know that true african black colour like Akon)...when i think of it, i think that those people are very stupid and close-minded.....'cause racism generally occurs between people of different races not people of the same race but with degrees in skin colour!...and if you wonder where i'm from in sudan,i'm neither northern nor southern i'm from the westside of sudan........and i was the one who thought that this lighter and darker stuff was only in sudan or africa where all people are black!
But i'll tell you this stupid racism in the black culture was as a result of the white people(who are the northern africans in my case) racism to the blacks.....although it doesn't make sense...right?!
2006-08-04 10:06:02 · answer #6 · answered by Ahmed Jadalla Bushra Badawi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the unfortunate portrayal of figures in our media. The fair skinned fair haired feminine figure is always portrayed as ideal, and the closer one is to that image, the more they appear to be accepted in society. I do not agree with it or find it fair, which I am sure means very little coming from a girl with an avatar like mine, but it does not discount the beauty of your brown eyes and dark skin.
2006-08-04 09:51:01 · answer #7 · answered by Olive Green Eyes 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a global issue.
I am English and my wife is Indonesian. In Indonesia women are desperate to "whiten" their skin, and the Indonesian men chase after light skinned women.
Look at the world media, film and press and perhaps we still have a white is best, white is beautiful culture in the world.
It is not good.
2006-08-04 09:51:14 · answer #8 · answered by Edrig 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a hard question to answer i am white but very darkly tanned and i don't look at the deepness of the colour when judging beauty i look at the features which is i admit rather superficial as it whats with in that really counts
i used to work in Fiji and many of the ladies there are very dark in complexion but to me they were very beautiful
maybe it a black thing i don't know
2006-08-04 09:54:39 · answer #9 · answered by gwaz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. If you can make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to seek inferior status, he will do so without being told." Carter G. Woodson
Racism, propaganda and colonization of the mind.
2006-08-04 13:14:06 · answer #10 · answered by cub6ib9 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋