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

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Yara is a proud black and Irani sister!!(she can converse in farsi) i love her and her family is beautiful. I met her father Afshin during my communication with Prince (PBUH) in 2003/2004..

 

[Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha]

She's a brown skin biracial female while Jr is a lite skin black male.

Theyre both light, theres not one type of light

 

[Dr. Acula]

It really depends on who you ask. She not a person that people would agree on.

It tells you that descriptions like "dark-skin""brown skin" and "light skin" are completely subjective and as a result some folks need to realize its all relative to the person you're talking to. My girl says all her life people called her light skin but I consider her brown skin and that might be because I'm lighter than her and most of my family is light-skin. Its all about relative perspective.

Also that photo is outside in the sun so in that photo she looks "light-skin" but looks darker in the OP picture. The fact this description varies so much should make people not put too much stock in it as it doesn't even seem to be set in stone. Definitely shouldn't let it affect her self-esteem​

 

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

I say the same thing . I don't consider myself light skinned. I have debated the topic many times. lol

 

[Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha]

It she wasnt Biracial no one would call her lightskin.

All biracial people get thrown in the lightskin box.

All communities ( whites, blacks , Latinos etc) are obsessed with biracial / mixed people. Everyone loses their shyt over the most trivial shyt.

If It’s not some self hater admiring them for trivial physical trait then it’s some other people trashing them some trivial physical traits.

I’m tired hearing this shyt while folks still drinking dirty water and can’t pay for health care. It’s exhausting.


Everyone needs get a life.

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

 

[Elle Driver]

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

High yella to AA meant someone who could almost pass.

 

[Please Believe It]

She light skinned idk what she talking about. Everybody so used to super light skinned mixed women being pushed that people are starting to forget what real brown skin is

 

[feelosofer]

Its arguable. If she wants to consider her self brown skinned. I don't see a real issue with it.

 

[Strapped]

Total nonsense

 

[spliz]

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

So u dont understand makeup and lighting I guess.

 

[Cape Town JHB]

In South Africa she's colored.
nikkaz prentend to be confused coz they have a mixed breed fetish (self hate).

By pretending like a mixed breed, with
with barely any noticeable African phenotype is "black" we can fukk and procreate with chicks 3 shades lighter than than our grand parents and unrecognizable to our African roots, and not feel like the c00ns we are. Tariq and Corey Holcomb married mixed breeds, I've heard both Juelzing over the years on that "we iz all black" tip.

 

[Crude]

All I see is a Black woman.

I could care less about her complexion.

 

[Dr. Acula]

All I see is a Black woman.

I could care less about her complexion.

Pretty much how I feel about this issue. I never really thought about skin color. All black to me.

Though, I have given it thought in the past that I'm probably able to have this relaxed attitude towards the conversation because maybe I haven't had to deal with colorism issues in a negative way in my past. Like, I completely understand how "dark-skin" people can develop colorism complexes given how some folks treat dark skin folks, especially when kids which may develop into complexes when they're older. I never paid attention to the color of skin though growing up which is why I find it hard to relate to it even being an important issue. I didn't think lower of people with darker skin or anything like that. My first crush was on a dark skin chick and I've had crushes on light skin chicks too. It just never occurred to me for it to be something to care about.

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

She is a good halfway point between her mother and father.

Ironically she's probably inherited some European DNA from her African-American mother, and some
North/East African DNA from her Iranian father.

Funny thing is, not too long ago, her mother would have been considered somewhat "light" in certain parts
of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.

 

[Mowgli]

At a certain point you have to realize nikkas talk shyt about everything