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

[King Khufu]

You forget who her cousin is have some respect

 

[CHICAGO]

SHE IS BROWN SKINNED...

DUMB NEGROS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO ERASE BROWN SKIN
SO THEY CAN INVOLVE US IN THEIR SILLY
DARK SKIN/LIGHT SKIN WARS.



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[CHICAGO]

It isn’t her skin complexion, it’s the fact that she is mixed race. I am glad BW are pushing back and wanting to see black women and not solely mixed race women. Mixed girls need to start owning that they are mixed just like their male counterparts own up that they are mixed and fall back when dark skinned bm occupy certain spaces or say certain things. Mixed race women occupy too much space within the BW collective and their mixed race tears are just getting annoying at this point and endulged more times than they should. That’s why they expect black people to always bend over backwards because they so used to being handled with kid gloves I am looking at you Ayesha.

I don’t care if some BM call BW jealous or bitter or lacking confidence it’s a deflection tactic. Many are fully aware of the ish and don’t care until it’s start affecting them.

Yara is a cute girl and I like how she is styled but she is still half black and half Persian to me color notwithstanding and fall in the same category of “ideal black girl” the media has been pushing aggressively in the last decade. Next...

Oh she addresses black people because she is hoping that her captain save a mixed chick will come bat for her and double down on black people calling us bitter/jealous/ ugly.

nikka THIS POST MAKES NO SENSE.

BW SHOULD CALL HER BIRACIAL
NOT LIGHT SKINNED IF WHAT YOURE SAYING IS APPLIED TO THIS THREAD.



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[xXOGLEGENDXx]

I swear, some black women really battle the dumbest shiit

"Don't call me lightskin"
"Don't call me auntie"
"Don't ask if I am mixed"


Meanwhile I am over here asking to not get sent to prison for a crime I didn't commit or to not shoot me 30 times for a speeding ticket

 

[null]

She is on the border so light in some pics, brown in others, brown in real life.

 

[Hip-Hop-Bulls]

No she isnt

Of course she is. Black isn't about the color of your skin, it's the essence of who you are, your genes. In genetics, you have dominant genes, then you have recessive genes. Blue eyes, blonde hair, white skin etc etc are all recessive traits. If you have all the recessive traits, then you are "white". Otherwise, you have dominant genes and you are "black". Among those not in the know, I like to say acknowledge people as either non original or original people. Because the moment I say japanese people are black based on their genes, ninjas lose their mind at the thought lol since they think they were not taught this in school(Even though they have, look up Gregor Mendell). But the reality is that before "white" people there were no "black" people, just men, women and children. And before you had geographic names to divide people such as "Africa", "Japan", "Europe" etc all you had were black people traveling the planet.

So to summarize, your culture, nor does the geographic location you was born make you such and such. Your culture is a set of customs that people created after people existed(obviously). And for geographic location, do you mean to tell me that if my wife gave birth in China, my child would be chinese, and not be black? We have to learn at some point that nationality does not equal your "race" or the essence of who you are. At one point in time, the names "Japan" and "India" did not exist, so what were these people before that? And before that? You keep going back and eventually, all the labels will be gone and you'll only be left with men, women and children as I mentioned earlier. Either you have dominant genes or recessive genes.

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

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.

shyt asians don't even like to get tanned..

You can tell the foreign asians from Americanized over in seattle because the foreigners would be covered up during summer so as to stay pale.

 

[Brandsdale]

does it really matter?

 

[King Khufu]

shyt asians don't even like to get tanned..

You can tell the foreign asians from Americanized over in seattle because the foreigners would be covered up during summer so as to stay pale.

Asians are fukked, this article speaks on some of the fukkery about it
The Asian Subculture trying to ERASE their own Faces
Facekini & Asian Aversion to Tan Skin: a Precursor to Racism?

but its funny because the way some asian girls look kind of close to some of the sisters out here atleast the ones i dig into anyway

 

[RTF]

Just for clarification, you guys didn't consider biracially white/black people over there black? But yall do now? When dud the shift in perception occur, and why?

Pure/full/all black never existed in the Western Hemisphere, so from the outset of the transatlantic slave trade that introduced Africans to Europeans and Natives, biracial white/blacks have always been viewed as black over here...

Most Americans of one black parentage identify as black, regardless of what the other parent is. Take this website with a grain of salt, it's a small sample size of how a minority of black people in America view life. Almost nobody with two black parents is "fully black", so this is a relative new thing to excommunicate biracial blacks from our community. There are biracial who choose not to identify as black, but trust me on this, they are in the extreme minority over here...



Amen to that...



It has nothing to do with the slave masters and everything to do with how people view themselves. Yara identifies as black, why does that bother people?

Largely it’s still the same. Mixed race people are considered mixed race rather than black. But the term ‘light skin’ is used to describe people that shade. People are frequently described as a ‘lighty’ (Mostly women) and it’s usually a mixed race person.

Mixed race people are only considered black in the USA because of how slavery worked over there. In Brazil they have black and brown. Black is someone that could pass for West African. Pelé, Willian maybe a young Neymar. Brown is someone that has clear admixture Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Pepe. This is Western Hemisphere. It’s not just based skin tone but also hair and features. So really light skin people with afros and black features wouldn’t be considered white.

Likewise in Jamaica or wherever they know black from mixed race.

It’s just based on the fact that most black people are of west African descent in America. 99% of West Africans don’t look like Yara. They are darker with more tightly coiled hair. Her mother on the other hand could pass for west African, Jamaican, whatever.

Obviously not all west Africans are dark skinned.

 

[Will Ross]

I think this is a sold rep of what people would say

Dark skin

brown skin

Light skin

 

[murksiderock]

Asians are fukked, this article speaks on some of the fukkery about it
The Asian Subculture trying to ERASE their own Faces
Facekini & Asian Aversion to Tan Skin: a Precursor to Racism?

but its funny because the way some asian girls look kind of close to some of the sisters out here atleast the ones i dig into anyway

You and someone else hit on this, it's completely false that black people are the only people who deal with colorism...

This board is ~90% black or so, so we talk about black topics, and some of these muhfukkas have little to no exposure to non blacks in their real life, so they think these things are only black things...

And truth be told, as fukked up as it sounds we probably deal with colorism better than other subcultures. Asians, Latinos, Euros, Arabs, all these muhfukkas have colorist ideals, because colorism is a European construct and all other groups (including us) have been whitewashed and influenced by Europeans to an alarming degree...

 

[RTF]

She’s brown.

She’s closer in complexion to her dad than her mom on the show.


Majority of black people in America are pretty close to her skin tone.

Is this true? A quick count has 9 of the 12 black people here clearly darker than Yara.

 

[murksiderock]

Largely it’s still the same. Mixed race people are considered mixed race rather than black. But the term ‘light skin’ is used to describe people that shade. People are frequently described as a ‘lighty’ (Mostly women) and it’s usually a mixed race person.

Mixed race people are only considered black in the USA because of how slavery worked over there. In Brazil they have black and brown. Black is someone that could pass for West African. Pelé, Willian maybe a young Neymar. Brown is someone that has clear admixture Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Pepe. This is Western Hemisphere. It’s not just based skin tone but also hair and features. So really light skin people with afros and black features wouldn’t be considered white.

Likewise in Jamaica or wherever they know black from mixed race.

It’s just based on the fact that most black people are of west African descent in America. 99% of West Africans don’t look like Yara. They are darker with more tightly coiled hair. Her mother on the other hand could pass for west African, Jamaican, whatever.

Obviously not all west Africans are dark skinned.

I don't know when you last came here, but I would say a significant number of Black Americans don't resemble the typical West African. It's impossible to put a percentage on it, but there is a significant number...

You are right about how the legacy of slavery shaped race here...

I would also point out that identifying with blackness is more popular here, we "took back" our blackness sooner than South American nations, who are just now experiencing some of the black pride movements that we adopted in the early to mid 20th century. So that helped shape race over here as well, and I think even compared to some blacks in European nations, there is a different level if pride and acceptance in being black here. And I think that should be commended, because our black pride here certainly isn't for lack of systemic oppression, the same oppression that subdivided black and brown and other colorist ideals in Brazil and other South American nations you mentioned...

 

[murksiderock]

Is this true? A quick count has 9 of the 12 black people here clearly darker than Yara.

How did you determine this, because anecdotally, we have blacks here darker than Yara with lighter hair, lighter with thicker hair, and everything in between the spectrum. 9/12 is 75%, I'm not sure I'd say 75% of blacks in America are darker than her...its more like someone else stated, her tone is pretty typical of the average black here...