What is with this light skinned thing?

Question

You are still black, "light skinned" is a black skin tone. Whoever has been complaining about light skin over the past few hours will always be black regardless of how much they cry at night and wish they were another race.

Do you see white people saying, "Oh, my skin tone is apricot, I'm better than you, with your ugly peach skin tone"? When was the last time you hear white people talk about skin tones? (Except about tanning, etc)

Answer 1

Why does it matter how people identify themselves? What if I called myself black? Would it really matter? I don't think so. Race is one thing, and identity is another. I would explain, but I'm not in the mood.


EDIT: Left Bank Hook, I love your answer. Talk about accurate!

Answer 2

Yeah, but white people DO talk about skin tones! They make fun of pale people, they CRUSH albinos, and there's a whole INDUSTRY around being tan!

So it's everywhere. The funny thing to me is that everyone's trying to get to the same "middle" skin tone, but so many people (from either side of the spectrum) don't like the idea of "mixing races."

Answer 3

I agree with Simply Cynical there are alot of fake and crazy people on here hiding behind avatars and you can tell who they are. They are the extreme racists ( usually set up the account the day of only answer questions or ask them and they deal with how bad minorities are) or the really weird ones- where you are thinking" no way" then its not true. For some reason this cultural section has some really weird people.

Answer 4

hmm...Im black. don't know if i should answer this question or not but...I do enjoy the company of my light-skinned wife. She doesn't treat me as if i were inferior. She doesnt act all high-classed or as if she deserves more than i do. She too is black. Not black as in skin tone but Black as in race. Skin tone differences have somehow become a subgroup of races. you got your black, blue-black(Bernie Mac), brown, Orange (Halle Berry)light-skinned, high-yellow, and omg-are-you-black (Tom Joyner) people? But none of these re on those surveys we have to fill out. Hmm...

Answer 5

Wow, people can be sooooo shallow! I believe God made us all different so that we could enjoy each persons individuality and that includes our skin tones.

I'm happy I am white with a few freckles and some color during the summer just as I am during the winter when I am white as snow. My color doesn't define who I am. My soul does.

We are ALL beautiful!!

Sandy :O)

Answer 6

People are people. And people specify skin tone usually to describe how someone looks. Don't take it personally.Their are much more disturbing things to be concerned about.

Answer 7

i dont know what you area asking..

but one time i was at this pool (i am realllllyyy pale and dont tan) and this portugeese (?) girl was like 'why are you soo white, you need to get a tan' and i was like 'my skin doesent tan' and she was like you should get spray on tan cause you skin is really ugly'.... and other stuff like that

but im not going to go to a tanning solon or lay in the sun all day just so i can put my skin in danger for skin cancer.

i hate when people do that!!

Answer 8

Cuz Black people are so brainwashed now, thet they think white is better than black. So whoever looks closer to white, is "better". The closer a Black person's hair looks to white hair, the more "good" it is.

A lot of Black people suffer from self-hatred. Its SO SAD, and i would tell those people to read "From ****** to Gods" by Akil, and then "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrisson, and also "The Color Complex" by Kathy Russell.

Answer 9

i'm black myself, and that i detect it being retarded. some blacks are retarded/backwards and nonetheless have a Sixties mentality. it began back interior the slavery days, using fact easy pores and skin black human beings have been dealt with greater appropriate by potential of whites and specific black housholds have been greater familiar,on an identical time as darkish pores and skin blacks had to artwork out interior the fields and have been dealt with worse than easy pores and skin. it is likewise the comparable with hair texture. Blacks with wavy/curly hair get carry of greater interest from whites and their very own kin than blacks with kinkier/tightly coarse hair. this continues to be genuine with some black households in todays society that the black individual with the lighter or wavy/curly hair get greater interest than the brother, sister , or cousin with kinkier hair.

Answer 10

OMG that is so true and i did not know how bad it was until i started college in the south. at my school the guys call me redbone b/c i have a red under tone. Back home in NJ the people i lived around did not see color , we just saw people living life in the ghetto.The African American race needs to stop stepping on their people and start lifting up their people.