i’m sorry but I dislike the whole “I want my child to have light skin and light eyes” is this BUILD A BEAR WORKSHOP? like what will your child having green eyes do for you? you should just wish for a happy and healthy baby. not picking and choosing their features so you can accept them. and if you have a child without those features.... what now?
usually black people who say or think those things truly desire lightskin/biracial children and are subconsciously harboring intense anti-black sentiments... and you really cannot blame them...in a society where being fully black, dark skin, 4c hair, wide nose never really gets you anywhere ie. you are treated badly, never obtain the same work opportunities, and must work twice as hard... i can understand why this would be the thought process... you wouldn't want your children to go through hardships... furthermore some of our own parents pass down this colorist outlook on life... it's sad but it's a cycle... and to know that white ppl are sitting back watching us fuss about skin color... so embarrassing. it's not fair but it is what it is.
It is just a complex of inferiority or very low self - esteem. This is probably the result of living in a very racialist society where darker - complected humans are looked down upon by others.
I think that’s a stupid reason the have a baby HOWEVER i’m going to play devils advocate and say, that if we are going to keep asserting that light skin people have privilege in society over dark skin people, then are people wrong for wishing that?
The dude identifying as brown skinned needs to take another look in the mirror. You #TeamDarkSkin bro! I will never forget that when I was a kid I got picked for being dark by other kids that were only maybe a shade lighter than me and in some cases darker than me. Willie Lynch did a job on us.
I've spent a year in a predominantly white college (60%) with like 5% black people. And they cry about wanting to be tan, and blare hip hop and rap through their expensive cars. But when it comes down to it, you don't see them with any black people until the basketball games, tryna be next to us and act cool when the black sororities and frats come out. Like no. You can't pick and choose your times to appreciate us.
Thank you for saying this! I've thought this for a long time- especially where I live where it's predominately white. Even though I'm mixed, I still feel underrepresented and unappreciated in a place where it's only whiteness that gets you the most praise and acceptance. It's really annoying to see how they appreciate black culture and use it all the time, but still sit there and don't care about black issues.
Dark skin is beautiful but the girl with the hat on is brown skin. Her skin tone is in the middle of dark skin and light skin. Tbh she is not a Red bone or dark skin she is brown skin.
I am very dark skinned (close to midnight-that's what they used to say to make fun of me) and I have kinky hair but its not 4c curl pattern. People always ask me if I'm mixed with something. That's weird and awkward.
@@decepticononline564 yes they are all brown but you people always leave us brownskins out like it is only light and darkskins. And this nigga saying he is brown is darkskinned. The girl who said she is red is a brownskin. We have a reddish brown tint
Thank you!!! This is the healthiest conversation I've seen thus far in YT and I'm enjoying until I read the wanna be micromanaged in the comments! Don't discredit the entire discussion because of some insignificant details.
I disagree with the women saying all Black women are sexualized/fetishized the same way. The reason the lighter woman spoke more than the darker woman with the weave is probably deeper than it seems. A light skinned woman can talk about Black issues and colorism because she benefits from it. She IS more fetishized and seen in a sexual, acceptable way. A darker skinned Black woman is sexualized for her body when she is curvy and sexual, but its seen as a taboo sexuality and hypersexual, and then when she doesn't have that hypersexual body she is often DE-sexualized while a lighter girl is still seen as pretty and sexually attractive if she's just thin. The darker skinned female was likely quiet because this topic affects her negatively the MOST and she'd have to be the most open and vulnerable about it. EDIT: and I think thats easy to see when she said she believes her life would be the same if she were lighter - nobody else agreed with her and I think she knows thats not true - everybody knows lighter skin is given preferential treatment, but she gave a response that makes her feel better about herself.
Not all light skin black women or people are mixed and some mixed people are dark skin. l am African from Camrroon. l am light skin because my mum was fair incomplexion and she wasn't a mixed race either.
Because he is brown. No matter what shade you are, if you are black you are brown. Statements like these are apart of the problem. If we all considered ourselves brown, instead of breaking it down into shades, maybe there wouldn't be such a disconnect in the black community.
@@Dez112 you can't be black and brown at the same time. You niggas need to stop saying that. We are brown not black. And he is darkskinned the girl who said she is red is brown skinned
As a dark skin woman, I was very disappointed that the beautiful dark skin girl was not as outspoken. Without confidence, no one will respect you, and even then you still be frowned upon. Great topic by the way.
Char Lina As an African American, I hated that for my brother's and sister's. I even fought a bih for bullying a young lady from Ghana. Not on my watch.
@@Waryfuls2 brother you are the avg brown skin tone of Ethiopians. the light skin girl in the group in the video was Ethiopian. shes considered light for Ethiopians. you are brown like majority of Ethiopians lol
There are people waaayyy darker than what people perceive as darker skin and go through different experiences than a “true dark skin person who faces backlash due to their skin. If you are anywhere in the middle those experiences are different. At the end of the day we are all black, skin changes with the seasons. I’m considered brown but sometimes I’m lighter as in the winter and sometimes darker in the summer. Skin is a organ that changes depending on how you take care of yourself and the food you eat.
I think the girl said that because the man before her said that he was brown skinned so she was probably like well I’m lighter than you so I guess I’m red
Not gonna lie the dark skin dude look like he'd participate in the colorism even his response was off and the dark girl is lying with the we all the same kine when we are not we need to acdept we arnt and move in lol embrace differences
Especially when he said all skin is beautiful ... Key words, he only date mixed women. He was like I dated a Black woman but he lit up talking about his mixed women!
I'm lighter than the girl in the hat and I don't call myself "red" I consider myself brown skin. Lmao red wtf and the first guy saying he's brownskin made me laugh too brush you're dark skin. Embrace your melanin 🖤 y’all… i was 17 when i made this comment, i’m 23 now, please stop replying i truly do not care 💀
Jordan Alané It’s really dependent on your undertone. I’m brown skinned but depending on the lighting and my tanning, I can get really dark. But my yellow/gold undertone is always prominent. So maybe that’s what she meant by “red”.
@@EnlightenedGoldenBeauty honestly you right , i was tweaking 4 years ago wtf 🤣 red is definitely light brown , that's what they used to call the natives which are usually a really light brown
girl interrupted Now that I think about she’s right. Growing up it was hard to find my identity and part of that was the way I dressed. My style changed over the years when I began to understand myself more, but I had no idea where to start. Part of that comes from a lack of representation.
Black Swan that's it tell you to type person as she is because she's not even close to being red. if I seen her in school I wouldn't even mess her talking about she's red
I've never seen a brown person call themselves red before & that dark skin guy who thinks he's brown 😳 they've got self hate issues & need to accept themselves the way they are.
@LiveLife So he hates hisself because he said he was brown? Isn't that the color of his skin? That's like saying some one who is a light color calling themselves light skinned is them hating their skin.
I know a few who brown skin who think there light skin, I use be light when younger, but over the years I've gotten darker so I'm now brown skin, my face and arms are brown brown, but my body is light brown.
You know damn well nothing is gonna change if people keep saying this without doing anything. It's practically the equivalent of a white person saying "I don't see colour"
Uh when the girl with Nike cap mentioned about guys wanting to smack your ass or touch your body in school I almost shed a little tear cause that was literally my high school years always been touched by guys and sometimes even girls 😩
Mixed race people and light skinned black people are different concepts. having a non black parent has a privileging effect on your life whether you are conscious of it or not.
I'm bi-racial growing up I would see my mother(dark skin) and my father (white) get treated completely different, same thing with me.... whenever I would travel with my mother they would pull her aside to body check her whenever I travelled with my father white people would give me cut eye and as soon as my dad comes they start complimenting me and saying your daughters beautiful like keep the same energy
Because they get access too a whole another community through there non black parent,a regular lightskin only has the black community which is at the bottom
I can honestly say growing up Dark-skin is hard. People often make jokes likes "Oh if you turned off the lights all that you would see is your eyes or teeth", or " You're burnt, and you were born in Africa". First of all I was born in NY but my father was born in Africa. My mother is light-skin born in NY also, and her side of the family is full on mixed, and my father is Dark-skin and was born in Burkina Faso and it's hard to be accepted. Like I used to go school and get bullied for it till this day and up until last year I lived with my grandma for a while and my mixed aunt with a Dark-skin mother would make all of these jokes about being Dark-skin, like that shit is hard. Like you're telling me I can't make a joke without somebody bringing up complexion. It's just a lot of stuff that goes on. In the end we are all Black and come from the same blood line.
Same! I've had people assume I'm from Africa and I tell them, no, I'm from Queens, NY. And, the first 2 countries they always assumed I'd be from is Nigeria or Kenya. Like, are those the only 2 African countries people know of?!
Dear Young Black Males, Show respect for our young sistas. They are young Queens, and you’re young Kings. Black is beautiful, period. If you’re one of those young men who put light-skinned women on a pedestal, but look down on dark-skinned young ladies, stop it! Black women come in all shades, and all black families have all shades within their families. It’s one thing to have a preference, and that’s okay, but don’t belittle the other. Respect, appreciate, and protect our sistas. In closing: We already have to deal with race related crap from other ethnic groups, so why add to it amongst our own? We need to build each other up and be united as one, no matter what our skin tone is. Don’t physically or mentally abuse your young Queen. Respect her just like you’d like your mother, grandmother, or sister to be respected by another male. There’s nothing attractive or cool about mistreating a woman. Nothing at all
It's very interesting to me how the darkest skinned girl hardly ever said anything even with the questions directly referring to dark skin and even when she tried to speak a lot of the time she got spoken over yet the "lighter" skinned girls all had tons to say.Is it that she's just shy or is it that they controlled the conversation? Very interesting.
ok. I can work with the Lightskinned dude with the beard cause he gets it. I am a brown dark BEAUTIFUL Woman. Understand the history....I cannot understand how long lil billy at recess can affect GENERATIONS!!!!! You can't not have culture and steal Culture and I respect you. The media and our older relatives are to blame. period point blank. All people are beautiful....The fetishism stems from slavery!!!! Come on my people, yall can't all be sleep!!!!!
These two people who thought they were red and brown are delusional. I am LMAO! That dude would be considered dark skin. That girl is not light skin. Too Funny!
Short story time... when I was with my sister at Applebee's one of the waitresses asked my sister and I if we were mixed with Indian or something. When I told her no she felt surprised and she said she wanted to be our black smh. We are a lost race.
Great conversation. I can only speak for myself, but having fair skin comes with its own set of issues... highly visible hyperpigmentation, redness, varicose veins, etc... and darker colors are slimming. A tan can make you look slimmer. Healthier. It's not always a matter of imitation.
Hmmm, TO ME, TO ME...i dont think some of these students are being honest, mainly with the lighter skin toned woman with the curly hair saying: her life would be better if she was darker".. i don't believe that because we alll know how darker shades of people are treated, talked about, disrespected, and treated as scum. We all know in this world, the lighter you, the better you are and the more success you will have at finding jobs..lets be real guys. im not bashing, but speaking realistic stuff.
@@elizabethadams7771 She looks like a typical Ethiopian though. I know a lot of them and they usually have her skin tone.. I only met ONE Ethiopian in my lifetime that was actually dark skinned.
Nallah B extremely weird!!! If anything the hot pink bikini would look more attractive on the darker girl... you can tell she low key take pride in her “lightness”
This Girl with a cap really made great points. I like the way all of them pay atention on everything she was saying. She is not just saying it; It feels like, It comes from the botton of her heart and her words are based on truth! #GoGirl
heavy panel loved the conversation. when i say heavy i mean in spectrum of thought process. you could see that two main people stole this conversation lol i think they know who they are ;) but the conversation shifted and liked that. energy was live india for sure haha OG great page, keep feeding us with your gracious self, you are wonderful. Naija love
I am black. Period. My parents are both very dark skinned, my sister and brother are also chocolate. I am the byproduct of one of my ancestors who was raped by their Chickasaw and Choctaw slaves masters and this curse manifested itself in just me. Most people don't know American Indians owned slaves in the south. My family on my mother's side are all large land owners and we are the caretakers of our ancestors graves who are buried in our family's personal cemetery dating back to the early 1800s. We have to start to love and honor each other unilaterally as a people. Our men have not protected us as they should and our women suffer from Stockholm syndrome because they have been abandoned. We follow a system that has been Socially engineered specifically to eliminate our genetic dominance on this planet. Black man's hatred of his woman is becoming an ideology. A religion.
Girl..your story sounds like my family. My grandmother still has the Indian reservation documents from her grandmother. I believe the were black slaves with NA slave owners!
Not true I am black Amer-native American. My mom my Grandma my great great grandmother full Chahta Chickasaw in Mississippi my great great grandfather we have documents he was 1/2 German and 1 1/2 native Amer my Grandma married my black grandfather. My mom was brown skin red bone not dark not light. This is insane to keep this going of enemy. great grandfather was native American of Americas they Know in Americas was all diff of shades of light skin to fare dark skin. The dark skin Native Amer we're killed off why do you think so it will be confusion plus they sold off land...
Monique Smith, Oh, so calling her sister a gorilla is right? Her actions are simple minded and dumb. Damn, clearly you agree wit her...oooh, with your mean self. But, I hope you don't have any dark children in your family. I'll pray for them. Stay blessed.
This was actually a great discussion! I almost didn't stick around. I knew from the beginning people were gonna be in the comments when the 1st dude and the 3rd girl said what their color was 😁. But skin color is very relative globally and even within the various black communities in the US. The girl who said she was "red" is likely telling the truth about her skin classification in New Orleans. I traveled to Uganda (where my mom was born) and the people there consider me light skinned. However, in the US , I would generally say that people would classify me as brown or light brown skinned...
This was great. It's sad to see that many people who watched this whole video didn't grab the knowledge and wisdom from the discussion in this panel, but only attack the people for their definition of skin tone and complexion. Thank you for this content. People are so small-minded and need to travel to experience different people and cultures--even in the U.S. to see where these terms come from. 💫
I’m dark skin and the only one that can make me feel bad about it is me. I love my skin color. I’m pretty good with not dealing Dutch people who don’t like me. I’m sure, the comments I heard growing up making inference to me being aggressive was about me being dark or black. Oh well. Who I worry more for are for men and boys who are assumed to be criminals and young girls who let it depress them. It’s sad.
i also see this problem in the Native community too. my husband told me he married and was attached to me because of my lighter skin. i am a lighter skinned woman of color and was blonde as a child. i am mixed and have been teased and bullied because of it. i had girls put some in my hair and call me a dirty blonde. it was very traumatic.
@@guesswho9791 it depends on the natural color of your lips. If you have lighter lips, all you need is a little bit of lipstick & it'll blend in well. If you want to wear pink just put only a little bit on your lips so it'll blend in. Same with red. It's all about the amount, not the lip color itself.
I lived in the US for 4 years and I felt really insulted when people told me they couldn't tell I was African because I was not dark skinned. really people really....Africa is so diverse in terms of complexion and more
The girl who referred as her complexion had some damn great valid points👏🏾 was snapping every time she stated something. And for all the people in the comments saying why she calling herself red, she did say where she grew up that's how they addressed her. It's a common term in New Orleans for a complexion like hers.
As an adult I love my darker brown skin but as a child my brothers who were light skinned tormented me. It wasn’t until I started to grow up around 15 and all there friends were attracted to me that my brothers began to respect my dark beautiful skin tone. Bcse either your beautiful or your not. Light or dark. I had a nice personality and carried myself well.
Great video I’m a mixed chick I faced a lot of colorism by my aunts who try to compare me to my cousins. The world needs to know this is a real issue in our world. Colorism is real, I feel like it shouldn’t matter about a person skin color. One of my friends is Ethiopian she dark I don’t tell her light skin is better then dark skin.
I wish we could just see what is in the inside of each other. It makes me really sad that people get judged for their skin color and how people are just in general with it. We are all human and I just wish we all could love one another. I love the one song that says Jesus loves all of his children, red, yellow, black and white they're precious to his sight. I'm having a brain fog moment with my MS. I wish you the very best always in life. Much love and many blessings to you and your families! 💖🌹💫
simon williams Ok go look up Joyner Lucas I'm not racist, go see it listen closely too it. Blacks and whites are both hypocrites they only care about thier own race, stop blaming whites for you're own problems and deal with it.
My wife and I are brown skinned and Im a bit darker than her but 2 of our kids are light skinned and one brown skinned. Thats the beauty of it. Im fairly a good looking man and I wouldn't mind if I was darker. I feel sorry for people that are so weak or brainwashed into thinking light skinned is better.
I agree especially when she mentioned how her skin changes with the seasons I use to kinda dread the summer because I would get darker and be kinda happy when the winter came because I got lighter
watomg232323 Me too girl. Where I'm from it's been summer for straight up a year now and I'm darker now and people straight up walk up to me and be like, "Girl, you used to look so much prettier when you were lighter." 😒
So glad that I came across this video! What an excellent conversation!! I thoroughly enjoyed hearing everyone talk👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽. My experience living in the Caribbean is a little bit different from what African-Americans go through, but there are MANY similarities. My experience is that although the lighter skin is more praised and deemed as "more beautiful," it doesn't necessarily affect how we socialize. What I mean by that is - black, white, mixed, indians, asians etc, all mix together and no one looks at colour when it comes on to (most) social settings. And even within the business sector as well. Everyone is equal. HOWEVER, while we don't segregate by colour (in my country), we segregate by CLASS. So u have what u call "uptown" people (who are usually white or mixed; some fully black) and then u have the "downtown" people (who are mostly fully black whilst few are mixed or of a different race). The "uptown" people are usually the ones who "run the country" so to speak, and are wealthy or "well-off" because they operate and own most large businesses/corporations, or they work in high positions in the company they are apart of. On the other hand, the "downtown" persons are usually deemed as "lower class" due to their educational background and their low minimal wage income. HOWEVER, we have seen MAJOR progress within this "class" of people, whereas a lot of the children from these backgrounds actually get scholarships or their parents simply work their butts off their entire lives and save aggressively, so that their children can get a better quality of life than they did. So some of these children go on to get their tertiary education and get good paying jobs when they graduate. We do also have the middle-class persons who typically operate small businesses or work for companies that pay average wages and they live a "relatively" comfortable life. But anywho, my whole point in this comment is to say that the country or island, rather, that I'm from (in the Caribbean) is more classist than racist/colourist.
I have noticed that skin complexion is subjective. How we perceive a person is completely different of how they perceive themselves and their complexion.
opposites attract. im considered a "redbone" black guy. i had trouble dating lightskin women because they wanted darker guys and darkskin women wanted lightskin guys. so I dated mixed black women because I'm a mixed black guy
Why when Blacks talk about their issues that one of us in the discussion got to be inclusive and talk about others struggles! This is about us ... Stick to topic! Trust no other groups are including our struggles in their struggle!
RIGHT! They always do this lmfao. Not to mention that most East Africans have generational ancestry with southern Arabians and some may even have ancestry with white berber North Africans. But ‘we’re all black right’? Lol.
I am on my mom's account, right now, soooooo, yeah. I am always getting picked on. So I ain't got patience for light skinned girls trying to dance around the fact that they get privilege. These are the different names I get called at school: burnt biscuit, Kodak Black, blackula, shadow girl, wit yo' black a** , etc.. It's sad that, if I was a lighter shade I wouldn't get called all those names, it's sad that I have a 12% more chance to get more time in jail, it's sad that a lot (if not most), black men, dog, brown to dark skinned women cause they think that they are not as good as White or Light skinned. And if I'm gonna be honest, I don't like it when people say "We're ALL one skin tone." NO WE AIN'T!!!!! Now, as much as people need to start seeing how we are similar we all are, we need to pay attention to the actual divide that goes on, instead of dancing around the problem, and being totally blind to it!!!! Cause I am constantly getting mocked, and ridiculed, while nothing gets done about it. Now if you are a dark skinned girl reading this, you most likely understand my struggle. Aren't you tired of our men Dogg'n us, and being a sell out to there own? And so no one is confused, I'm not saying that light skinned people don't go through issues, NOT AT ALL. Like that brotha said on the corner of the video, there are stereotypes that light skinned people are soft, and too into there feelings, and problems like that. But they do not compare to the plight of what dark skinned people go through. It's sad that I get treated the way I do because of the shade of my skin tone. Truly sad.
I personally had to take my neatly groomed faux braids down because I started to realized that I wasn't getting hired because of it and it sucks..it really does.. especially when you get an interview at your dream job knowing you have the qualifications or exceed them, but didn't get it because you're black or your hair is "to much" or both...
Makes me sad how deep the trauma of slavery and subsequent self-hatred runs in our communities around the world. I heard my niece and nephew talking that team dark skin and team light skin BS. I shut that down real quick.
Being a dark-skinned Coming from Belgium , I don't understand the colorism in the Black American community. My mother is a light-skinned and I have been compared to her many times. "You look like your mother but she's more beautiful, you should lighten your skin.". Only White or Arabs have told me that , not my black brothers and sisters 😏
I come from a line of "racial cleansing". The one thing I've learned is that proximity to whiteness doesn't make you immune from racism or colorism. It's a weird place to be in when you're not dark enough for POC but super dark to white people. It's like being in a limbo. It feels like you don't really have a community sometimes.
I’m naturally pale but I tan during the summer. I love my skin. I do change my hair color many many times but that doesn’t mean I hate my natural hair color.
I would have to disagree with the Ethiopian girl. I’m Ethiopian myself and we come in different skin tones and looks. I could tell right off the bat that she was Ethiopian so when she said people don’t recognize her as Ethiopian, I was a little confused. Ik about 10 Ethiopian people that look similar to her.
No team lightskin No team darkskin #Teammelanin
NaeNae 1996
Team eumelamin.
Les go!
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Melanin goddesses 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
White people can melanin also
when the first dude said he is brown skin, i just went to straight to the comments to see if am missing something.
jak sam that was me lol 😂😂😭😭
Same lmao
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@Straight Facts true
He's Brown to me, not dark and this coming from a light woman
the "brown skin" dude don't think he's dark skinded?????? uah... okay
OurTruth Brown/dark isn't it the same? He looks brown to me at least.
He's still black nevertheless.
Still brown though
I was lost too!
@charbren 888 honestly most people like him who claims to be brown skinned are dark-skinned it's almost funny
THE WHITE MAN SIT BACK AND SMILE LIKE LOOK WHAT IVE DONE HERE
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YOUNGSTEEL VA 703 ALL DAY LOLOL we just keep giving ourselves Ls 😂 😂
YOUNGSTEEL VA 703 ALL DAY agreed. Mentally lynched society. Pun intended 😐
tony lennon black people put the biracial women in the house while the darker ones were on the field?
tony lennon stop it five
i’m sorry but I dislike the whole “I want my child to have light skin and light eyes” is this BUILD A BEAR WORKSHOP? like what will your child having green eyes do for you? you should just wish for a happy and healthy baby. not picking and choosing their features so you can accept them. and if you have a child without those features.... what now?
Preachhh sister💯💯
You're speaking truth girl, but that Build-A-Bear Workshop part was funny as hell 😆
usually black people who say or think those things truly desire lightskin/biracial children and are subconsciously harboring intense anti-black sentiments... and you really cannot blame them...in a society where being fully black, dark skin, 4c hair, wide nose never really gets you anywhere ie. you are treated badly, never obtain the same work opportunities, and must work twice as hard... i can understand why this would be the thought process...
you wouldn't want your children to go through hardships... furthermore some of our own parents pass down this colorist outlook on life... it's sad but it's a cycle... and to know that white ppl are sitting back watching us fuss about skin color... so embarrassing. it's not fair but it is what it is.
It is just a complex of inferiority or very low self - esteem. This is probably the result of living in a very racialist society where darker - complected humans are looked down upon by others.
I think that’s a stupid reason the have a baby HOWEVER i’m going to play devils advocate and say, that if we are going to keep asserting that light skin people have privilege in society over dark skin people, then are people wrong for wishing that?
The dude identifying as brown skinned needs to take another look in the mirror. You #TeamDarkSkin bro! I will never forget that when I was a kid I got picked for being dark by other kids that were only maybe a shade lighter than me and in some cases darker than me. Willie Lynch did a job on us.
He's brown skinned. Lupita or Lonnie from the real are dark skinned.
Lmao it be like that. Like the fact people attack others who look JUST LIKE THEM is sad 😔
ms san2016 he’s dark Brown , basically dark skinned
true
Just realized he's Nigerian maybe that's why he considers himself brown skin because most Nigerians are very dark.
I've spent a year in a predominantly white college (60%) with like 5% black people. And they cry about wanting to be tan, and blare hip hop and rap through their expensive cars. But when it comes down to it, you don't see them with any black people until the basketball games, tryna be next to us and act cool when the black sororities and frats come out. Like no. You can't pick and choose your times to appreciate us.
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Thank you for saying this! I've thought this for a long time- especially where I live where it's predominately white. Even though I'm mixed, I still feel underrepresented and unappreciated in a place where it's only whiteness that gets you the most praise and acceptance. It's really annoying to see how they appreciate black culture and use it all the time, but still sit there and don't care about black issues.
Some white people like black culture but not black people.
Lightskin, Darkskin, Brownskin.....We’re All Black & Beautiful
It's sad you didn't get more agrees. I totally agree with you.
I agree
I’m mixed and white light skin. Do I count?
NickW 313 When is that even a question come on man I am too I don’t I talk light skin you know I TikTok dark skin so hell yeah I consider myself
@NithinR this isn't about asians we know that its not only black ppl but the topics on black ppl so what do u expect
All the of the first 3 to introduce themselves are all dark skinned. But why are 2 so ashamed to admit the obvious??? Smh. Dark skin is gorgeoussssss.
Dark skin is beautiful but the girl with the hat on is brown skin. Her skin tone is in the middle of dark skin and light skin. Tbh she is not a Red bone or dark skin she is brown skin.
Not the girl in black , she’s brown
I am very dark skinned (close to midnight-that's what they used to say to make fun of me) and I have kinky hair but its not 4c curl pattern. People always ask me if I'm mixed with something. That's weird and awkward.
Live Free same here!
I dont know if that should be funny......... hahahaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!! Ops i laughed
Live Free same
Live Free you're beautiful is what you are!! Midnight is when the stars shine brightest. #sunkissed 🌞🌌
dark skin is number one 🔥🔥😍
I don't think she's red. She looks brown skin...
Red is brown in new Orleans lol
Mitchellthe senpai no it isn't.
Nola Darling where are you from?
Mitchellthe senpai New Orleans
Nola Darling lmao well then IG to some it still means brown. She knows she isn't lightskin because she would have just said that.
"Me as a brown skin " bih where 😂
Most of the people in this video were brown skin. You do realize dark skin, brown skin and light skin comes in different shades right?
@@decepticononline564 is this supposed to make sense?
@@sowhat... was that supposed to be a stupid reply?
@@decepticononline564 yes they are all brown but you people always leave us brownskins out like it is only light and darkskins. And this nigga saying he is brown is darkskinned. The girl who said she is red is a brownskin. We have a reddish brown tint
@@terrianwilliams2624 they were not all brown skinned, few of them in there were lighter skinned.
it's crazy how half of these comments are about the minor things said in the video ... this conversation had so much more truth and depth ...
Choyce Dixon right‼️
Thank you
Yup!
I didn't even really pay attention to the minor stuff. I had to play back the video to see what some people were talking about in the comments. Lol
Thank you!!! This is the healthiest conversation I've seen thus far in YT and I'm enjoying until I read the wanna be micromanaged in the comments! Don't discredit the entire discussion because of some insignificant details.
I’m a light skinned black woman and I support my dark skinned sisters. I’m sorry people treat you badly. Much love
Thank u 🙏
That's sweet of you, but you're brown skin in this picture
same
We support them but they dont support us.Strait Facts!!!
@@JoiCarlaBodyBar does it matter? Blacks are strait negative. Smmfh
I'm a black man who cares about light or dark skin. I love beautiful women 😍😍
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I disagree with the women saying all Black women are sexualized/fetishized the same way. The reason the lighter woman spoke more than the darker woman with the weave is probably deeper than it seems. A light skinned woman can talk about Black issues and colorism because she benefits from it. She IS more fetishized and seen in a sexual, acceptable way. A darker skinned Black woman is sexualized for her body when she is curvy and sexual, but its seen as a taboo sexuality and hypersexual, and then when she doesn't have that hypersexual body she is often DE-sexualized while a lighter girl is still seen as pretty and sexually attractive if she's just thin. The darker skinned female was likely quiet because this topic affects her negatively the MOST and she'd have to be the most open and vulnerable about it.
EDIT: and I think thats easy to see when she said she believes her life would be the same if she were lighter - nobody else agreed with her and I think she knows thats not true - everybody knows lighter skin is given preferential treatment, but she gave a response that makes her feel better about herself.
This is too accurate !
Factsssssss
Agreed
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Not all light skin black women or people are mixed and some mixed people are dark skin. l am African from Camrroon. l am light skin because my mum was fair incomplexion and she wasn't a mixed race either.
Thank goodness someone knows this.
I'm glad I'm not the intone who knows this
sabina Enow I'm biracial but I look 👀 black
sabina Enow thank u sooooo much
i know a camerounian girl very light skinned with green eyes and her parents are both dark and she looks so much like her dad ..so yeah
The first dude thinks he's brown skinned.smh
trbj21 😭 he is brown skinned
Ra-Neter666 so what is considered brown skinned?
He is Brown skin, the sister next to him with the long hair style is Dark Skin.
trbj21 ain't nothing WRONG w saying you're dark skinned🙄
I gave him a little side-eye for that one. It seemed like he was uncomfortable saying "dark". Poor baby.
It seems to me that many black men prefer light skin women and they seem to feel that they are prettier.
The guy next to the "dark skinned" girl is really close to her shade why does he consider himself brown?
Steven pie Theories He’s insecure 😟
@@LoveNaisa no cause he is brown
Because he is brown. No matter what shade you are, if you are black you are brown. Statements like these are apart of the problem. If we all considered ourselves brown, instead of breaking it down into shades, maybe there wouldn't be such a disconnect in the black community.
@@Dez112 you can't be black and brown at the same time. You niggas need to stop saying that. We are brown not black. And he is darkskinned the girl who said she is red is brown skinned
Technically he is brown and so is the girl next to him❤
That man is NOT brownskin 😂 That's darkskin. But he fine so he can be whatever he want to be 😍🤤
@Jenna Smith There's a lot of Nigerians who are lighter than him. Look at Wiz Kid, Jidenna and Rotimi.
As a dark skin woman, I was very disappointed that the beautiful dark skin girl was not as outspoken. Without confidence, no one will respect you, and even then you still be frowned upon. Great topic by the way.
That last redbone hit the nail on the head.. you gotta start YOUNG. We have all been miseducated.
See stereotyping calling her redbone!
If your "preference" is prejudice then there's a problem.
I'm the same complexion as the girl with the hat on but I don't consider red 🤔
Nina Labelle when she said "RED" ..i busted out laughing so hard , i had to pause the video! nahhhh bruh, but she pretty afff.
Nina Labelle same. I'm not light skinned but I wouldn't be considered dark. I'm more like burnt Carmel! 😂😂😂😂
yeah i would consider her "brown skin" tbh.
She's dark skinned, not red. Lol wtf.
Nina Labelle she's not even dark tho. She's more in the middle of light skin and dark skin.
I absolutely love this video and conversation. Intelligent young people speaking on a topic that is constantly ignored and brushed under the rug.
Damn, I got called African booty scratcher too. The funny thing is, it was the only other (West) African kid in the school that singled me out😭
Char Lina
As an African American, I hated that for my brother's and sister's.
I even fought a bih for bullying a young lady from Ghana.
Not on my watch.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Leshell Thomas i must have beautiful eyes because I hold all the bees
The “red” girl is AT MOST brown skinned. The “brown” man was dark skinned. GUYS ... COME ON
That's what I said
The red one is a tint darker than i am, i go as golden brown, due to where my genes are from - i'm kinda light for an ethiopian i know... but im mixed
@@Waryfuls2 brother you are the avg brown skin tone of Ethiopians. the light skin girl in the group in the video was Ethiopian. shes considered light for Ethiopians. you are brown like majority of Ethiopians lol
There are people waaayyy darker than what people perceive as darker skin and go through different experiences than a “true dark skin person who faces backlash due to their skin. If you are anywhere in the middle those experiences are different. At the end of the day we are all black, skin changes with the seasons. I’m considered brown but sometimes I’m lighter as in the winter and sometimes darker in the summer. Skin is a organ that changes depending on how you take care of yourself and the food you eat.
I think the girl said that because the man before her said that he was brown skinned so she was probably like well I’m lighter than you so I guess I’m red
Not gonna lie the dark skin dude look like he'd participate in the colorism even his response was off and the dark girl is lying with the we all the same kine when we are not we need to acdept we arnt and move in lol embrace differences
Especially when he said all skin is beautiful ... Key words, he only date mixed women. He was like I dated a Black woman but he lit up talking about his mixed women!
I'm lighter than the girl in the hat and I don't call myself "red" I consider myself brown skin. Lmao red wtf and the first guy saying he's brownskin made me laugh too brush you're dark skin. Embrace your melanin 🖤
y’all… i was 17 when i made this comment, i’m 23 now, please stop replying i truly do not care 💀
Jordan Fearrington red is brownskin lol. It's slang for certain places.
Jordan Alané It’s really dependent on your undertone. I’m brown skinned but depending on the lighting and my tanning, I can get really dark. But my yellow/gold undertone is always prominent. So maybe that’s what she meant by “red”.
@@h3llboyyy407 Red is light brown. She’s a dark caramel, very close to chocolate
@@EnlightenedGoldenBeauty honestly you right , i was tweaking 4 years ago wtf 🤣 red is definitely light brown , that's what they used to call the natives which are usually a really light brown
That’s the only thing you took from this video? 🙄
Wait... Did she just say she didn't know where to shop (9:05) because she was light skinned? Ok... That's new to me.
Yea she said she aint have representation wich is true for back then they didnt start pumoing in kight models till 2006
girl interrupted Now that I think about she’s right. Growing up it was hard to find my identity and part of that was the way I dressed. My style changed over the years when I began to understand myself more, but I had no idea where to start. Part of that comes from a lack of representation.
The interviewer is beautiful
red?? red is brown skin.
Black Swan that's it tell you to type person as she is because she's not even close to being red. if I seen her in school I wouldn't even mess her talking about she's red
That woman saying she red she's not red.
No she part red. Red and black is brown
It denotes part Native American heritage and actually yields a ‘red’ cast undertone to the skin
Im red im native and nigerian i have a brick red undertone
I've never seen a brown person call themselves red before & that dark skin guy who thinks he's brown 😳 they've got self hate issues & need to accept themselves the way they are.
@LiveLife So he hates hisself because he said he was brown? Isn't that the color of his skin? That's like saying some one who is a light color calling themselves light skinned is them hating their skin.
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It was hard to follow their experiences when I keep thinking you’re not even what you’re talking about 😂
I know a few who brown skin who think there light skin, I use be light when younger, but over the years I've gotten darker so I'm now brown skin, my face and arms are brown brown, but my body is light brown.
Bottom line we all Black.
Periodt 👏🏽👏🏽
juiceyfruityify Exactlyyyyy
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You know damn well nothing is gonna change if people keep saying this without doing anything. It's practically the equivalent of a white person saying "I don't see colour"
Rlly were all brown not blk I low key consider myself as a " descendant of Israelites"
you picked the perfect people to interview, this was long, but worth its length
Uh when the girl with Nike cap mentioned about guys wanting to smack your ass or touch your body in school I almost shed a little tear cause that was literally my high school years always been touched by guys and sometimes even girls 😩
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Very true
Mixed race people and light skinned black people are different concepts.
having a non black parent has a privileging effect on your life whether you are conscious of it or not.
Most lightskin have 2 black parents In the house ma'am.
THANK YOU! No offense but I can't stand light skin people being lumped in with biracial people.
I'm bi-racial growing up I would see my mother(dark skin) and my father (white) get treated completely different, same thing with me.... whenever I would travel with my mother they would pull her aside to body check her whenever I travelled with my father white people would give me cut eye and as soon as my dad comes they start complimenting me and saying your daughters beautiful like keep the same energy
Because they get access too a whole another community through there non black parent,a regular lightskin only has the black community which is at the bottom
@@iz_ray2479 same
I can honestly say growing up Dark-skin is hard. People often make jokes likes "Oh if you turned off the lights all that you would see is your eyes or teeth", or " You're burnt, and you were born in Africa". First of all I was born in NY but my father was born in Africa. My mother is light-skin born in NY also, and her side of the family is full on mixed, and my father is Dark-skin and was born in Burkina Faso and it's hard to be accepted. Like I used to go school and get bullied for it till this day and up until last year I lived with my grandma for a while and my mixed aunt with a Dark-skin mother would make all of these jokes about being Dark-skin, like that shit is hard. Like you're telling me I can't make a joke without somebody bringing up complexion. It's just a lot of stuff that goes on. In the end we are all Black and come from the same blood line.
Same! I've had people assume I'm from Africa and I tell them, no, I'm from Queens, NY. And, the first 2 countries they always assumed I'd be from is Nigeria or Kenya. Like, are those the only 2 African countries people know of?!
That second guy actually thinks he's brown.. please take a seat
Jenn Lynn yeah I thought he was cute till he opened his mouth
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Dear Young Black Males, Show respect for our young sistas. They are young Queens, and you’re young Kings. Black is beautiful, period. If you’re one of those young men who put light-skinned women on a pedestal, but look down on dark-skinned young ladies, stop it! Black women come in all shades, and all black families have all shades within their families. It’s one thing to have a preference, and that’s okay, but don’t belittle the other. Respect, appreciate, and protect our sistas. In closing: We already have to deal with race related crap from other ethnic groups, so why add to it amongst our own? We need to build each other up and be united as one, no matter what our skin tone is. Don’t physically or mentally abuse your young Queen. Respect her just like you’d like your mother, grandmother, or sister to be respected by another male. There’s nothing attractive or cool about mistreating a woman. Nothing at all
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Facts
Well said.🌹
BLACK AND LIGHT SKINS ARE BEAUTIFUL
Rezaea Love Yes they are!
Light Skins are black too.
It's very interesting to me how the darkest skinned girl hardly ever said anything even with the questions directly referring to dark skin and even when she tried to speak a lot of the time she got spoken over yet the "lighter" skinned girls all had tons to say.Is it that she's just shy or is it that they controlled the conversation? Very interesting.
i wanted to hear from her as well. Like can we hear from the one with the beautiful dark shade
y'all weird bruh stfu
akeela bihh Girl what?😂 Your comment was stupid, stfu😂
You guys are overthinking smh, she is just shy, aint no need to say such stuffs.
Maybe shes shy damn y'all really reaching for the stars with this bullshit.
ok. I can work with the Lightskinned dude with the beard cause he gets it. I am a brown dark BEAUTIFUL Woman. Understand the history....I cannot understand how long lil billy at recess can affect GENERATIONS!!!!! You can't not have culture and steal Culture and I respect you. The media and our older relatives are to blame. period point blank. All people are beautiful....The fetishism stems from slavery!!!! Come on my people, yall can't all be sleep!!!!!
These two people who thought they were red and brown are delusional. I am LMAO! That dude would be considered dark skin. That girl is not light skin. Too Funny!
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So glad I found this TH-cam channel, you have some real quality videos. Can't wait t see more! Especially coming from a fellow Naija TH-camr, haha
Wow! This means so much! Seriously thank you for watching!
Cindyrella OG .. you should do a discussion on the feminization of men
Short story time... when I was with my sister at Applebee's one of the waitresses asked my sister and I if we were mixed with Indian or something. When I told her no she felt surprised and she said she wanted to be our black smh. We are a lost race.
+Bambino. G0ld I get it every time! If I'm mixed with Indian or if I'm straight up Indian & I really don't understand why
Kayla Doris Its so sad 🙄
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Great conversation. I can only speak for myself, but having fair skin comes with its own set of issues... highly visible hyperpigmentation, redness, varicose veins, etc... and darker colors are slimming. A tan can make you look slimmer. Healthier. It's not always a matter of imitation.
The dark skin girl is gorgeous...like seriously I was looking thru the comments to see ...but damn she do beautiful
Darkskin and Lightskin Black Men are Wonderful!
This is off topic but homeboy tried it @21:30 when he said "wherever God directs me to" - really God directed you to all these different women? 😂😂😂
He shouldn't have put God in that.
For real... like God doesn’t want you to be with multiple women
Hmmm, TO ME, TO ME...i dont think some of these students are being honest, mainly with the lighter skin toned woman with the curly hair saying: her life would be better if she was darker".. i don't believe that because we alll know how darker shades of people are treated, talked about, disrespected, and treated as scum. We all know in this world, the lighter you, the better you are and the more success you will have at finding jobs..lets be real guys. im not bashing, but speaking realistic stuff.
I think she mainly meant being more accepted in her Ethiopian community as Ethiopian.
@@elizabethadams7771 So true!!!
@@elizabethadams7771 She looks like a typical Ethiopian though. I know a lot of them and they usually have her skin tone.. I only met ONE Ethiopian in my lifetime that was actually dark skinned.
@@latebloomer177 yes she’s a beautiful Ethiopian girl
"A hot pink bikini may not look good on her." Sissssss lol. That was weird to hear.
Nallah B extremely weird!!! If anything the hot pink bikini would look more attractive on the darker girl... you can tell she low key take pride in her “lightness”
I got my homegirl to wear bright nail polish. She's darker hued and felt she couldn't. Her nails been popping with color ever since.
IKR!
Pink or any color would contrast beautifully with melanin ❤
I thought I was the only one felt that way I was like bih put me and you in a pink bikini and see who’s cuter and I’m dark as night.
This Girl with a cap really made great points. I like the way all of them pay atention on everything she was saying. She is not just saying it; It feels like, It comes from the botton of her heart and her words are based on truth! #GoGirl
heavy panel loved the conversation. when i say heavy i mean in spectrum of thought process. you could see that two main people stole this conversation lol i think they know who they are ;) but the conversation shifted and liked that. energy was live india for sure haha OG great page, keep feeding us with your gracious self, you are wonderful. Naija love
Harvard OkoroNKWO thank you so much! Make sure to subscribe! 💕
I am black. Period. My parents are both very dark skinned, my sister and brother are also chocolate. I am the byproduct of one of my ancestors who was raped by their Chickasaw and Choctaw slaves masters and this curse manifested itself in just me. Most people don't know American Indians owned slaves in the south. My family on my mother's side are all large land owners and we are the caretakers of our ancestors graves who are buried in our family's personal cemetery dating back to the early 1800s. We have to start to love and honor each other unilaterally as a people. Our men have not protected us as they should and our women suffer from Stockholm syndrome because they have been abandoned. We follow a system that has been Socially engineered specifically to eliminate our genetic dominance on this planet. Black man's hatred of his woman is becoming an ideology. A religion.
Girl..your story sounds like my family. My grandmother still has the Indian reservation documents from her grandmother. I believe the were black slaves with NA slave owners!
214ladybug Adams But I bet you have a lot more choice of men than dark skinned women.
Not true I am black Amer-native
American. My mom my Grandma
my great great grandmother full
Chahta Chickasaw in Mississippi
my great great grandfather we
have documents he was 1/2
German and 1 1/2 native Amer
my Grandma married my black
grandfather. My mom was brown
skin red bone not dark not light.
This is insane to keep this going
of enemy. great grandfather was
native American of Americas they
Know in Americas was all diff of
shades of light skin to fare dark
skin. The dark skin Native Amer
we're killed off why do you think
so it will be confusion plus they
sold off land...
the girl with the hat spoke nonsense all the time, even the guy next to her had a "wtf" all the time hahahahaha xD
Preach! I just left a comment above going ham on what she used to do to her sister. She's off.
she wasn't talking nonsense y'all simple minded and dumb
Monique Smith, Oh, so calling her sister a gorilla is right? Her actions are simple minded and dumb. Damn, clearly you agree wit her...oooh, with your mean self. But, I hope you don't have any dark children in your family. I'll pray for them. Stay blessed.
So wrong.. her very last comment was dead on & what the world needs to here.
blessedby786 yeah she was calling people dumb, like girl we need to bring everyone up. No one needs to be brought down.
This was actually a great discussion! I almost didn't stick around.
I knew from the beginning people were gonna be in the comments when the 1st dude and the 3rd girl said what their color was 😁. But skin color is very relative globally and even within the various black communities in the US. The girl who said she was "red" is likely telling the truth about her skin classification in New Orleans.
I traveled to Uganda (where my mom was born) and the people there consider me light skinned. However, in the US , I would generally say that people would classify me as brown or light brown skinned...
This was great. It's sad to see that many people who watched this whole video didn't grab the knowledge and wisdom from the discussion in this panel, but only attack the people for their definition of skin tone and complexion. Thank you for this content. People are so small-minded and need to travel to experience different people and cultures--even in the U.S. to see where these terms come from. 💫
I’m dark skin and the only one that can make me feel bad about it is me. I love my skin color. I’m pretty good with not dealing Dutch people who don’t like me.
I’m sure, the comments I heard growing up making inference to me being aggressive was about me being dark or black.
Oh well.
Who I worry more for are for men and boys who are assumed to be criminals and young girls who let it depress them. It’s sad.
i also see this problem in the Native community too. my husband told me he married and was attached to me because of my lighter skin. i am a lighter skinned woman of color and was blonde as a child. i am mixed and have been teased and bullied because of it. i had girls put some in my hair and call me a dirty blonde. it was very traumatic.
Honey bright pink looks the best on dark skin women. You are part of the problem.
Except lipstick. I tried to wear that shit and I look like blameitonkway. It had me looking like I smeared Pepto Bismol on my lips.
& hair dye .
@@guesswho9791 it depends on the natural color of your lips. If you have lighter lips, all you need is a little bit of lipstick & it'll blend in well. If you want to wear pink just put only a little bit on your lips so it'll blend in. Same with red. It's all about the amount, not the lip color itself.
I lived in the US for 4 years and I felt really insulted when people told me they couldn't tell I was African because I was not dark skinned. really people really....Africa is so diverse in terms of complexion and more
OMG SAME! Im brown skinned and people looked shocked when I tell them my dad is Nigerian(Mom is brown skinned btw)
The girl who referred as her complexion had some damn great valid points👏🏾 was snapping every time she stated something. And for all the people in the comments saying why she calling herself red, she did say where she grew up that's how they addressed her. It's a common term in New Orleans for a complexion like hers.
it all starts with self love.. Love the skin you're in..
NO ONE IS UGLY AND NO ONE IS PERFECT
I don't get into that lite skin dark skin shit
This was exiting. Especially with the perspectives that I hadn't even thought of.
I love this so much, your whole channel is inspiring.
Thank you!!!
As an adult I love my darker brown skin but as a child my brothers who were light skinned tormented me. It wasn’t until I started to grow up around 15 and all there friends were attracted to me that my brothers began to respect my dark beautiful skin tone. Bcse either your beautiful or your not. Light or dark. I had a nice personality and carried myself well.
Great video I’m a mixed chick I faced a lot of colorism by my aunts who try to compare me to my cousins. The world needs to know this is a real issue in our world. Colorism is real, I feel like it shouldn’t matter about a person skin color. One of my friends is Ethiopian she dark I don’t tell her light skin is better then dark skin.
I wish we could just see what is in the inside of each other. It makes me really sad that people get judged for their skin color and how people are just in general with it. We are all human and I just wish we all could love one another. I love the one song that says Jesus loves all of his children, red, yellow, black and white they're precious to his sight. I'm having a brain fog moment with my MS. I wish you the very best always in life. Much love and many blessings to you and your families! 💖🌹💫
💯👏 Exactly !
Rachel Lynn Well WHO do you think started it all? If you want to be honest with yourself!
P Htwr everyone started it everyone is too blame not just whites
Hassan Jones bullshit white people literally created RACE to make them selves look Superior
simon williams Ok go look up Joyner Lucas I'm not racist, go see it listen closely too it. Blacks and whites are both hypocrites they only care about thier own race, stop blaming whites for you're own problems and deal with it.
My wife and I are brown skinned and Im a bit darker than her but 2 of our kids are light skinned and one brown skinned. Thats the beauty of it. Im fairly a good looking man and I wouldn't mind if I was darker. I feel sorry for people that are so weak or brainwashed into thinking light skinned is better.
The young lady with the baseball cap is so me. I'm sitting here listening to her while nodding at the description of her life growing up
I agree especially when she mentioned how her skin changes with the seasons I use to kinda dread the summer because I would get darker and be kinda happy when the winter came because I got lighter
watomg232323 Me too girl. Where I'm from it's been summer for straight up a year now and I'm darker now and people straight up walk up to me and be like, "Girl, you used to look so much prettier when you were lighter." 😒
So glad that I came across this video! What an excellent conversation!! I thoroughly enjoyed hearing everyone talk👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽. My experience living in the Caribbean is a little bit different from what African-Americans go through, but there are MANY similarities. My experience is that although the lighter skin is more praised and deemed as "more beautiful," it doesn't necessarily affect how we socialize. What I mean by that is - black, white, mixed, indians, asians etc, all mix together and no one looks at colour when it comes on to (most) social settings. And even within the business sector as well. Everyone is equal. HOWEVER, while we don't segregate by colour (in my country), we segregate by CLASS. So u have what u call "uptown" people (who are usually white or mixed; some fully black) and then u have the "downtown" people (who are mostly fully black whilst few are mixed or of a different race). The "uptown" people are usually the ones who "run the country" so to speak, and are wealthy or "well-off" because they operate and own most large businesses/corporations, or they work in high positions in the company they are apart of. On the other hand, the "downtown" persons are usually deemed as "lower class" due to their educational background and their low minimal wage income. HOWEVER, we have seen MAJOR progress within this "class" of people, whereas a lot of the children from these backgrounds actually get scholarships or their parents simply work their butts off their entire lives and save aggressively, so that their children can get a better quality of life than they did. So some of these children go on to get their tertiary education and get good paying jobs when they graduate. We do also have the middle-class persons who typically operate small businesses or work for companies that pay average wages and they live a "relatively" comfortable life. But anywho, my whole point in this comment is to say that the country or island, rather, that I'm from (in the Caribbean) is more classist than racist/colourist.
The girl in the hat is spot on in her mentality!
In my opinion weather you dark skin or light skin black women you beautiful. So just be proud...!!
I am truly light skinned unlike the girl with the hat and I love darker skin...it's beautiful!!!!
I have noticed that skin complexion is subjective. How we perceive a person is completely different of how they perceive themselves and their complexion.
“I wasn’t ratchet, I was just live all the time” lol girl I can’t 😂😂😂😂😂
WOW, imagine being Brown and you living life thinking youre red
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Red?
she is red,because that's her darkest complexion on the screen.She can go very light skin therefore appearing red.
sista w the black hat was my favorite . great video
PEOPLE PICK ON MY BECASUE I'M LIGHT BUT I DONT CARE EVERYBODY IS PRETTY EATHER LIGHT ARE DARK😊😊😊😊😃😃😃
@6:27 That sista is 250% true about India, I'm a complete Indian man.
opposites attract. im considered a "redbone" black guy. i had trouble dating lightskin women because they wanted darker guys and darkskin women wanted lightskin guys. so I dated mixed black women because I'm a mixed black guy
Why when Blacks talk about their issues that one of us in the discussion got to be inclusive and talk about others struggles! This is about us ... Stick to topic! Trust no other groups are including our struggles in their struggle!
Lmao she said "I'm full blooded Ethiopian" then said her grandfather is Italian. Girl you're mixed! Lmao.
RIGHT! They always do this lmfao. Not to mention that most East Africans have generational ancestry with southern Arabians and some may even have ancestry with white berber North Africans. But ‘we’re all black right’? Lol.
@@unapologetic7281 yes she’s a beautiful black woman
Her great grandfather
I am on my mom's account, right now, soooooo, yeah. I am always getting picked on. So I ain't got patience for light skinned girls trying to dance around the fact that they get privilege. These are the different names I get called at school: burnt biscuit, Kodak Black, blackula, shadow girl, wit yo' black a** , etc.. It's sad that, if I was a lighter shade I wouldn't get called all those names, it's sad that I have a 12% more chance to get more time in jail, it's sad that a lot (if not most), black men, dog, brown to dark skinned women cause they think that they are not as good as White or Light skinned. And if I'm gonna be honest, I don't like it when people say "We're ALL one skin tone." NO WE AIN'T!!!!! Now, as much as people need to start seeing how we are similar we all are, we need to pay attention to the actual divide that goes on, instead of dancing around the problem, and being totally blind to it!!!! Cause I am constantly getting mocked, and ridiculed, while nothing gets done about it. Now if you are a dark skinned girl reading this, you most likely understand my struggle. Aren't you tired of our men Dogg'n us, and being a sell out to there own? And so no one is confused, I'm not saying that light skinned people don't go through issues, NOT AT ALL. Like that brotha said on the corner of the video, there are stereotypes that light skinned people are soft, and too into there feelings, and problems like that. But they do not compare to the plight of what dark skinned people go through. It's sad that I get treated the way I do because of the shade of my skin tone. Truly sad.
PERIODT!
That's wrong of them to call you those mean names. To me black is black. Don't let them steal your joy.🌻
I personally had to take my neatly groomed faux braids down because I started to realized that I wasn't getting hired because of it and it sucks..it really does.. especially when you get an interview at your dream job knowing you have the qualifications or exceed them, but didn't get it because you're black or your hair is "to much" or both...
Makes me sad how deep the trauma of slavery and subsequent self-hatred runs in our communities around the world. I heard my niece and nephew talking that team dark skin and team light skin BS. I shut that down real quick.
I'm light skin and I'm seeing the sexiest man I ever laid eyes on he also happens to be dark skin, it's all about the features with me.
Being a dark-skinned Coming from Belgium , I don't understand the colorism in the Black American community. My mother is a light-skinned and I have been compared to her many times. "You look like your mother but she's more beautiful, you should lighten your skin.". Only White or Arabs have told me that , not my black brothers and sisters 😏
Wow that's sad but actually really refreshing to hear.
You got such a smart selection.
I come from a line of "racial cleansing". The one thing I've learned is that proximity to whiteness doesn't make you immune from racism or colorism. It's a weird place to be in when you're not dark enough for POC but super dark to white people. It's like being in a limbo. It feels like you don't really have a community sometimes.
People have I group preference at the end of the day,gotta find your own tribe
I ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ MY COMPLEXION😍😍😍😍😍. LIGHT SKIN WOMEN ALWAYS THINK THEY ARE BETTER.
I’m naturally pale but I tan during the summer. I love my skin. I do change my hair color many many times but that doesn’t mean I hate my natural hair color.
I would have to disagree with the Ethiopian girl. I’m Ethiopian myself and we come in different skin tones and looks. I could tell right off the bat that she was Ethiopian so when she said people don’t recognize her as Ethiopian, I was a little confused. Ik about 10 Ethiopian people that look similar to her.
The dark red skin girl whit the hat is really beautiful 🔥