Black people? (lol)?

Question

Anywho.....

I've been noticing that a lot of these questions talks about light skinned women and dark skinned women. (annoying!!! we are all black people!)

I always get so confused. I ask my mother about it sometimes. She's light skinned and there were times when other women would like tease her, saying that she's a wannabe white girl when that isn't true. Some of my friends who are dark skinned were teased b/c they're dark skinned. (ex: "You're SO BLACK!!) I really hated that. I've never been you know teased about my skin tone. (i'm brown skinned.)

My question is why don't people say anything about those who are darker than light skinned people but lighter than dark skinned people= brown skinned people. We all share the same features. (I have long hair like my mom, but i'm a darker than her)

Do we like exist in these skin tone debates?
(i mean we are black too, duh)

(if my question sounds dumb, don't bother answering, okie?

Forgive me for my grammar mistakes, please!

Turbandelight: If you don't understand the question, then why answer it. (that also doesn't make any sense, right?)

I'm not a troll!!!!

No!!!
Sorry. really I am.
I'm really sorry!
sorry sorry sorry
Yes, i'm young! I'm immature. I was curious that's all.

Answer 1

it's just stupid, i don't hear whites and latinos and chinese etc talking about who's hair is longer and who's tanner, bullshit...it's stupid and embarrassing that we do that, i hardly ever hear anyone but blacks coming with this light skin dark skin ****...it's very sad and annoying...

Answer 2

I don't know how old you are or how much of American history you have read or been taught. Here's the reason why any color debate takes place between African-Americans. It is a learned behavior that began in Slavery. When slave holders began forcibly "breeding" their own children for slavery, they treated the "mulatto" slaves a bit better. They must have had a shred of conscious somewhere in their warped ideas that human beings of darker hue they had kidnapped and forced into servitude were "animals" and only possessed the capacity for "childlike thought" even as adults, and therefore slavery was a service.

No one much thinks about the argument that if that had really been the case they were either practicing beastiality (mating with animals) or preying on the infirm. Anyway, perhaps these generally incompassionate slaveholders felt their seed made their children at least "half human and half-witted," so they gave them lighter duties. Housework, serving, driving carriages, etc. They were still enslaved, still half starved, still laboring for nothing (but avoiding whipping or killing) from can't see in the morning to can't see at night, so being light skinned was nothing to brag about.

For some slaveholders it was a philosophy of ensuring they kept the enslaved from banning together. Attack a force at its core, turn it on itself, and you can bring it down or keep it down. That went on for over a century until emancipation.

What emerged from slavery was a proud race of Americans who survived the systematic dehumanizing conditions of disenfranchisement that stripped our ancestors of their dignity, culture, language, and stole our labor for over 100 years. We are the decendants of a courageous people who learned a new language and mastered it. Built a country for free and still are reviled for it, but still are rising, rising, rising, like Maya Angelou wrote in her poetry. We Too Sing America, like Langston Hughes says in his poem of that title! Personally, I sing "My Country Tis of Thee" louder than anyone around me, for I KNOW my history. Sadly, for some of us, the psychology of this mistreatment has endured in the culture. Those who know better DO better. Now you know. Go forth and do better.

All skin, all hair, and even all people are inherently good. God created them so. They do evil until they learn better. Abolitionists, both African-American and of european descent helped end slavery. So love instead of hate, while recognizing some people never do learn. That's the real reason we still have racism today.
If you are a troll, you can have this lesson for free too.

Answer 3

Read the Willie Lynch letter

"You must use the dark skin slaves vs. The light skin slaves, and the light skin slaves vs. the dark skin slave. You must use the female vs. the male, and male vs. the female"

http://www.angelfire.com/ill/hebrewisrael/willielynch.html

because black people have been
forced to believe the closer you
are to white the better you are

its called psychology

what blacks need to do is break
this mental psychology
of white superiority

Not just blacks
other races too

Most people of races don't even realize
that they've been brainwashed by white supremacy

Answer 4

I'm in the middle and I like it there...

I think they don't talk about us because we're not light and we're not dark...

Answer 5

Somewhere in africa dark skinned blacks killed the light skinned ones !
People will always hate each other ,no matter what !

Answer 6

Got me, but I'm curious are you part filipina?

Answer 7

Welcome to the "real American dream", eh?

So this is bigoted America? Yeah, sadly it is.

Blah...(not to you), but to bigots in America with their d***** labels.

Answer 8

ok I wont bother answering.....