Black americans are not that different from Dominicans in their perception of race/coloorism. Y'all just approach the subject from two different extremes. While Dominicans will one drop rule themselves into whiteness...black americans one drop rule into blackness. But racial hierarchy is the same, and the closer to white you are, the better you are perceived, the more opportunities you have, the more you are valued in society/in the black community. The one credit I give black americans, y'all make an effort to counteract it but dominicans don't, they just accept it. Y'all just hide it under fake pride...personal observation.
To put it simply black americans are more hypocritical when it comes to subject of colorism. Dominicans maybe self haters but they are brutally honest on the subject. However, I don't blame black americans, it's part of 21st century North American PC culture.
P.S: I noticed most of the examples posted are of women.
African Americans embracing their blackness despite color is and always will be an act of resistance to white supremacy, not comparable to Dominicans who seek to disavow their blackness at all costs, as an act of cowardice and submission to the notion of white superiority. The fact that you would compare the two shows just how ignorant you are.
Too bad I can't tell my late great-grandmother who picked 50 pounds of cotton a day to feed her babies, because that was the only opportunity afforded to her
as a black woman in the segregated South, how privileged she was because she was very light.
Don't forget, I saw you in that other thread, caping for that darker skinned sister who refused to be called black because she identified as Native.You had no problem postulating that she wasn't black even though she had visible SSA Ancestry and little phenotypical native features. Yet here you are, mad that people with visible European
and SSA ancestry would call themselves black.
Which leaves me to believe that you have an issue with your own blackness full-stop. Why else would it bother you so that a biracial or light skinned person would embrace their blackness instead of shun it? Is your husband white? Your kids moolatte? Do you ship Olitz?
I'm just putting the pieces of the puzzle together.
One last time, for real, stop quoting me.