**This is one very long post because there are multiple stories within the post..the op asked for stories and examples. you have multiple stories and examples.***
anyone in here thats a light bright or looks darn near white saying they dont get any extras for the complexion is either lying or they really dont know the difference because they themselves have never asked their darker skinned friends/family what their life is like.
Let me explain. i have two brothers. one by another mother. My mother is very light/light eyes, my pops is dark.. the brother with the other mother, his mom was just as light as my mom.
myself and my older bro(same parents) both turned out right in the middle, neither dark, nor light. but if around really dark skinned people. they will at times call us light. I'm not light, but not dark either. literally dead in the middle. My other brother (different mom) is darker then me and my older bro. not as dark as pops but close.
i've seen the differences in how he's treated and how we're treated. and we're all considered at minimum remotely attractive by other women. so its no a thing about well maybe that nucca is ugly. no thats not the case. Its purely about skin color. we're actually bigger then the brother that has another mother. so its not "well maybe because he's so big.... that scares people." Nope. he's the smallest out of the 3 of us(not small at all but smaller then us).
now i'm not even Jcole light skin and i can tell when i get a little more run then my darker skin brother. so miss us with that "i dont get any benefits" i aint buying it. and if you do believe that. read my first sentence. you fall into one of those categories. OR there's another category, you're only around light skin people so you have no clue of the difference due to that fact. to know the difference you have to be around darker skinned folks So you can see the difference of treatment.
now back to me. I've always had light skin(jcole) homies, brown skin like myself, and dark skin homies. my crew has always consisted of that entire spectrum. So i'm telling you i could literally see the difference in treatment my lighter homeboy would get from other blacks(especially darker skin folks) as well as white folks.
example: me and my light skin homie are both 6ft+, both at the time were thin and in great shape. good looking dudes. We had a darker skin homie who was a bit shorter(some would say he wasnt as attractive as we were but still attractive enough). All 3 of us applied & interviewed for a job at a clothing store at the mall at the same time. Non of us had prior experience(we were kids in high school trying to get our first job). As far as our presentation in that interview we were all pretty much dressing the same, a pair of dockers/a nice button down shirt. Looking like a bunch of private school kids, nice and preppy. We all speak well. Non us are afraid to be interviewed. No one answered any of the bland questions any differently. we could hear each others interviews. They were on the spot. Guess who they not only called back but actually hired?
Mr light skin.
THey never even gave us(brown/dark) a call back to say sorry we're going in a different direction.
Then once mr light skin goes to work he realizes. its him and a few white girls and a gay white guy. that was it.
He use to tell us when he would go in for his shift or get off of work early and a late shift would come in. There was only 1 other black dude. That dude was a really short brown skin dude who looked like a cute kid even though he was like 18 at the time.
So from this we realized. They only wanted dudes they would not fear(light brights and really short extra childish faced cute guys.. like a 5'6 fabulous or a 5'6 Big sean...that look and at that size).
Pay attention to your local retail stores. not much has changed since i was a kid. same rule usually applies.
So already the light one has received a job that the rest of us darker skin folks couldnt get. strike 1
now to black people. other light skin folks would more or less hang with all of us. but truth be, they would more times then not, hang with mr light skin. not because he was the better/more friendly homie. we were all friendly, funny dudes that everyone liked to hang with. It was because they were light brights who liked to hang with those like them. It was a bit more comfortable for them. You could tell.
as far as black women. The light bright chicks would dig all of us. but would still venture towards the lighter homie. it was obvious how it went down. I use to laugh at it. it was funny to me. I'm not sure if my darker homie was bothered by it or not. The darker skin women would actually like us all, but would make sure they chose either myself(brown) or the darker guy. not because they didnt want the lighter guy. but because they ASSUMED without any evidence that mr light skin must not like darker skin or brown skin girls. he probably likes ligh brights like himself. he's probably stuck up.."because he's light" this is their real words. I had to go to bat for my light homie a many of night with these chicks. It actually pissed me off they would think like that and i had to cut some hot chicks off based on that alone. they never knew why. but that was why.Little did i know then that this was a product of these darker girls being mistreated by family, friends, and haters their entire life from childhood to adulthood. and we're talking beautiful looking sistas. that were the cute little black girls when they were kids(seen the old pics). they still caught hate.."why you so dark?", "you're too dark" , "dang you black." "you black and ugly", etc, etc, etc, etc.
and that was coming more from other dark skin folks then any other color or race. were brainwashed folks. and we know who brainwashed us.
Even as we're full grown now, my lighter homie as usual has been able to get jobs around mostly white folks where darker skinned folks were not. he was THEE only black person or THEE only black male. And he still had to deal with white racism.
Even my light moms use to talk about how she grew up in the south and had to deal with the hate from her own folks that were brown or darker skinned. even though she never hated on other folks. they were always riding her about her looks(you light, why you look white, you look white, you can probably pass for white, you're prettier then her because she dark and you light.etc., etc)
I've seen moms get jobs where there were no other blacks around. all white folks and her. They told her to her face "i like you, you're not like those other ....blacks." " you're a pretty black person" "ooo, your eyes are so cute."
These white folks would fawn all over her for being light and almost passing but still with some black features. Now he used this to her advantage to make a few more bucks for the fam. But she always knew what it was and hated it. lastly, moms herself had a complex. She couldnt stand really light guys. now aint that funny. as light as she was, her pops was very light and her moms was too. But she was anti Jcole. Why? because all of her life she was talked about by her own(darker skin folks) as not being 100% black, or not being black enough at times or being ran up on and fawned over while the darker folks were treated like crap by everyone(whites, and blacks). So she chose to go anti light. which is how my dark pops got in.
Lets reverse that. Pops.. remember married twice.(the other brothers mother remember). why did my mom and my brother's mom look about the same Jcole light? and pops has always been a Playa.. even after his marriages were a wrap. Pops chicks ... i have never once in my life seen my pops hollering at a dark skinned hot chick. at best we get a brown one about my complexion. 90% of his ladies were light brights just like my mother. Now why is that? Because he was a darker skinned guy that caught that dark skin hate from whites and blacks growing up. We're brainwashed people and we know who brainwashed us.
lastly, myself and my brother(by the same mother) has never had an issue with color when it comes to women. We like em all. as long as their hot, smart, and aint lazy.
My darker brother by the other mother likes em all but has admitted to me that he prefers darker skinned women. Why? he's darker skinned and has been treated poorly by blacks and whites because of that. so he wants someone just like himself that understands.
Y'all have been hating yourselves since slave times.. and it's not your fault. We have many male c00ns as well.. I never said we didn't. However, it's pretty obvious that it's a bigger problem among women.. and it's not their fault. It does irk the shyt out of me though.
look when she said that... shyt hurt a lil nikka 
