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

[ultraflexed]

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

Dark skin

brown skin

Light skin

You can be darkskin without being pitch black
You can be lightskin without being pale
There is a grey area, or a scale but its not as white an white as the pics you posted

 

[hatealot]

How come niccaz dont understand lighting
She's standing sunlight of course she"ll look light, however she is not lightskin. She is brown skin under normal lighting or no lighting.

Never thought bout that honestly. I need to see a non lighted picture withkut a tan to see this brown she talking about. She like .5 shade darker than alica keys on this photo. But she is not Brown skin.

 

[Bigblackted4]

This broad is light skinned, yellowbone and all that.

That’s the lighting

 

[ultraflexed]

Never thought bout that honestly. I need to see a non lighted picture withkut a tan to see this brown she talking about. She like .5 shade darker than alica keys on this photo. But she is not Brown skin.

Check this vid..this is close to normal lighting, look how much darker she is, lightskin people dont get this dark under normal lighting




She ain't lightskin.../thread

 

[Emoryal]

Wtf you talkin about?

I forget you nikkas slow

 

[hatealot]

Check this vid..this is close to normal lighting, look how much darker she is, lightskin people dont get this dark under normal lighting




She ain't lightskin.../thread

Point proven. She isnt light skinned.

 

[RTF]

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...

The vast majority of African Americans do resemble west Africans. Why you think all those British actors are getting roles in America? They are mostly African.

Biggest reason for the division is that miscegenation was far more common in Brazil than America and they built a proper caste system around it. Whole USA has house negros they were still essentially negroes with no more rights than field negroes. In Brazil being lighter was a genuine boost in social status. If 50% of the black population was people that were mixed race - people would call it out more.

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...

https://www.usab.com/~/media/dd7b86089f8b43f39f8d131928207695.ashx?h=600&la=en&w=1280

This is where I got this from.


http://www.usatf.org/usatf/files/a9/a9b2911b-fccb-476a-86b6-af5ee4def6a7.jpg


https://www.trackandfield.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/USA.jpg


https://i.ytimg.com/vi/605pmIYHcYY/maxresdefault.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RLpcw4K_QyA/maxresdefault.jpg


Yara looks like she has a non black parent or grandparent considering she’s of west African heritage. She could pass for East African.

 

[spliz]

I knew the bytch personally bruh.

 

[Miggs]

She hates that her father is Iranian or Syrian or w.e he is you can tell on social media...

 

[ultraflexed]

I knew the bytch personally bruh.

Yea but do you know her now
Cause she is bleaching now

Look how dark she was when she first came out

 

[Rell Lauren]

Microagression

 

[Unemployed GM]

Men started hate drake on here when he became plastered everywhere. BM were getting “in their feelings” that he is Canadian Jew and jumps on trends.

BM are no different than BW, I seen my fair share of men complaining about light skinned men creeping in sports and entertainment to know that when black men will start getting the dark skinned women treatment that whole we are just confident ish would be thrown out the window.

You guys are no more confident than BW y’all are gassed because of the way BM have been more showcased as a sex symbol in the last decade. Keep that same energy when Drake types become the black male standard.

That will never happen.

 

[ultraflexed]

That will never happen.

Actually, its IS HAPPENING, you not noticing the video men are getting lighter an lighter, rapper are more lighter then they've ever been.

 

[Ya?]

That will never happen.

Oh really

Why is that

 

[Unemployed GM]

Actually, its IS HAPPENING, you not noticing the video men are getting lighter an lighter, rapper are more lighter then they've ever been.

No one takes them seriously. You remember El Debarge an Al B sure. Same thing. These nikkas are a fad. Even they know it.