Actress Yara Shahidi: I'm NOT Lite Skinned . . . And I Want Black People To STOP Calling Me THAT!

[Emoryal]

Deny reality and act like you're in a sane state of mind brehs/brehettes

 

[Art Barr]

alot of lack knowledge of self badges going on in this thread.

so if you lack knowledge of self.
you should not be talking.
if you lack the ability to accept accountability.
on all accords.
even down to your family legacy and genetics.
You should not be talking.


art barr

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

bytch biracial

So nah u not brown anything

 

[Cadillac]

That's the thing. We on the internet getting our shyt off and they going on tv in front of white people tryna admonish the entire black community.

Apprently, they are.

But what does that subject have to do with this? This topic isn't about her blackness but skin tone

 

[seabreeze80]

Black folks really need to stop this Only group that discusses their skin tones to this degree

Completely not true. Asians and Latinos are far, far worse when it comes to skin color. They are also very open with their colorism and hatred of darker skin tones. Black people do not compare to these other groups at all.

 

[Cadillac]

1. nikkas started hating on champagne because they thought he was a fraud and not because of aesthetics. 100% related to preserving the integrity of hip hop culture and not some mass crusade against high yella nikkas with 3B hair and white mamas. but you already know that sis. cut it out

2. i'm a triple OG who remembers well when the lightskin & curly haired admixture brothers like el debarge ruled the roost. we didn't change things but either constantly crying or trying to conform to the beauty standard by way of wearing toupees made out of indian men's hair. watch us and follow what we do ma which is staunch non-conformist self promotion... like dark skin big daddy kane did when he labeled himself a sex symbol in '88 when the world was focused on al b sure and philip michael thomas

Stupid bytches really trying to make it like nikkas hate Drake cause he biracial and Lightskin

Besides cornball militants who scream purity(but are the same shade as me ironically) no one hates Drake for that. There's a dozen reasons before that some my not like Drake. Same applies to Cole, or Joyner Lucas etc

 

[Rollie Forbes]

Is she legal yet?

 

[How Sway?]

Where are you originally from, I thought you were from DMV?

I second this though, I mentioned several times on here that race wasn't a topic of discussion in my youth, the way it became when I starting hitting the East Coast (mostly NY and the Carolinas)...



Does not exist in America, you brothers and sisters are smarter than that...

Hence the addition of the quotation marks.......

and that only proves my point even further.

She's most likely < 45% black/african

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

But shes beige wtf u talking about? This isnt lightskin to you?

Who cares at the end of day.

Everyone’s gonna say something different.

 

[ezrathegreat]

Can't wait till this big foreheaded wench time is up.

 

[AlainLocke]

If you ain't yellow or near White you ain't lightskinned.

Lol act like there are millions of North American Blacks that are blue black if you want.

Yara is fukking Jay Z color.

 

[Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha]

Can't wait till this big foreheaded wench time is up.

How can someone who has a non black parent be a wench

 

[CarmelBarbie]

She's not lying. The boy son on Black-ish is light skinned, not her. Tracey Ellis Ross is light skinned, not her. She's just medium toned/caramel


She needs to worry about filling out. Pretty girl but she looks malnourished

Yeah, she’s around my complexion, slightly browner. She’s caramel.

 

[Hip-Hop-Bulls]

How about she's just black.

 

[seabreeze80]

She's right. She is literally the same color as Ciara, Sanaa Lathan, Will Smith and Nicki Minaj. Its rare that anyone ever calls these celebs light skinned. Yet they are the same shade as Yara. The real issue is that Yara is biracial, not her skin tone.

This is Yara:

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