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

[Emoryal]

A lot of people come into threads like this with their responses prepared. She doesnt want to be lumped in with light skinned people she sees herself as brown like many other black people. I don't see the problem with that. If society views and treats you as a black person then you're a black person. Skin tone is irrelevant if you're still considered black.

But if people are denouncing it then clearly society isnt all on the same page. Let me ask you would you date a trans?

 

[poundedyam]

I’m from the UK so things are different.


But growing up we didn’t call mixed race people ‘light skin’. Mixed race being white and black. That real high yellow complexion of Sade or even a Chris Brown.

So our perception of light skin black people was a bit darker. Will Smith. Like we would’ve considered Jay Z light skin or close.

Brown skin more like Nas.

But now we consider bi racial people black and light skin so that distorts what is light skin

Your talking a whole load of nonesense.
I dont know what uk you are talking about.
No way are biracials black and no way would we have ever considered jayz light skinned

 

[A1aaa]

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

But if people are denouncing it then clearly society isnt all on the same page. Let me ask you would you date a trans?

Wtf you talkin about?

 

[King Khufu]

The coli-colourists are really making scientific racial theories all on this one. Thanks for making my thread hot, by the way Yara is a cutie.

 

[poundedyam]

I do think actually there are some pica where she can pass as light skinned.
Moat of her pics she looks light brown though not light skinned

 

[Still FloW]

Who disrespecting my Bae out here ??? we can get it craccin

 

[Calmye]

Nas' cousin. She has her own hit TV show that is a spin off of another hit TV show she was on called Black-ish.

 

[Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha]

That's lighting and clearly not her natural skin tone. She literally has the sun shining on her in the second pic


How did you go to Google images and cherry pick the photos with light beaming on her? You skipped past the the more naturally lit pictures

The photos you picked she has a tan and is STILL light

 

[murksiderock]

Nah I'm from the southwest.

BP in the East & South have major skin color issues. I have been out here for awhile and I still don't understand why it is so harped upon. It is so obviously pointless and divisive.

100%...

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Dark skin nikkas in here hating on that beautiful brown skin

 

[TEH]

I’m medium brown and get called dark skin all the time - when I’m in the middle color range but who cares ...


If light skin wasn’t considered a compliment we wouldn’t even be having this conversation

 

[SouljaVoy]

When do she turn 18??

 

[King Khufu]

When do she turn 18??

Bruh she almost 20!

 

[SouljaVoy]

Bruh she almost 20!