Light Skinned & Mixed-Race Black Males: Talk About Your Privilege

[QuintessentialBM]

This fakkit actually changed the poll options. There was a "None" type option, but it's now "A Minuscule Amount of Privilege"..

Unless I saw it wrong the first time.

The OG poll never had "No Priviliege." Just added it as of 2 minutes ago... let it rest now.

 

[Carter G. Hoodson]

No one is trying to downplay a damn thing. I don't like that fact that we see it and champion it amongst ourselves. We look down upon each other. All you negroes that receive special treatment because of your hue needs to call out whoever is giving you that special treatment. If it's from a cracker, you tare into that crackers ass. If it's among brothas or sistas, you put them in their place or don't deal with them. I'm tired of this light skin dark skin shyt.

 

[ndthentherewasx]

They get the best of both worlds I would presume

 

[rapbeats]

A key detail would be the location of these occurrences that you discuss.



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.

These occurrences.. lol. i smoke on my parents and my brothers and my friends. my friends, and brothers and adult parents issues happened in cali/los angeles. but my parents childhood issues i spoke on happened in their hometowns back in the south where they came from(not about to tell you all of that info over the net. that aint non of yalls biznazz. )

Now its not a bigger problem among women. it just SEEMS like it is. The reason it SEEMS that way is because women have to worry about their looks more then men do. As long as we have a few dollars and a nice ride and some nice clothes. our looks dont matter. And to some degree our skin tone doesnt matter as much. Lastly, Since the world is a "MAN's" world. lets never forget. Women are still 2nd class citizens. Even in the western world. Pay is still unequal for the exact same jobs. among other things. This means Women would have to be more aware of anything they thought could make them or other women less attractive.

White, Blonde hair and blue eyes is said to be the best thing on earth per the White....MAN. and since he has colonized/raped/pillaged every where. Now everyone believes this nonsense to some degree. So if you're not White, Blond hair and blue eyed.wait lets go further. If you're the opposite of that...Dark skin, Brown eyes, Dark Jet black hair. Then you are the opposite of GOOD. you are therefore BAD..Unattractive. no matter how attractive your features may actually be. This will make said dark person feel some type of way around all people. including those like them. everyone like them will try to do whatever they could to clown others so to keep the heat off of them "dangggg you black" (coming from someone who is as dark as you). That is code word for "please dont recognize how dark i am.look at her first"

darker folks are automatically assuming when in the presence of lighter folks that the lighter folks will get all the good treatment(which is true in most situations but not always true..doesnt matter dark folks are still paranoid about this.) and darker folks are brainwashed to believe themselves that lighter is better. See the brainwashing isnt just for white people, or light people. its for all of us. So it effects all of us depending on where you land on the color spectrum. depending on how close you are to the "best look"

lighter folks unless they have only been around their own or white folks. usually they feel weird because they know whats going on with darker folks and they know its unfair. so they feel like they have to be on some humble pie type stuff to just hang. because they dont want to offend people with their look(that they cant change since they were born that way). or you have to other side they feel like they are not black enough because the darker skin folks are hating on their look because they know they get undeserved privileges that they themselves can't have. That hate starts off with "you aint black like us... you white" See saying that now in 2015 can be laughed off a bit more then say 1960 when being black was a pride thing for black folks. Why do you think half of the main folks at the forefront of our movements were light brights. Have you not noticed most of the brothas especially...you see going hard for black folks in the public eye are light skin folks? part of that is because them and their parents have been trying to prove to the darker black folks that YES I am as Black as you and let me prove it. I'm about to go extra hard for the cause.
exhibit A.

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[Midrash]

I'm a yellow cat and I think it's definitely benefited me as fukked up as it is.

-White people were always a lot less defensive as they would be more comfortable opening up to me as they would a dark skinned guy. I got punished in school less strictly than the darker kids but still worse than the whites. White people were very comfortable being friends with me and letting me in their inner circle I felt like.



-I think being an exotic looking light skinned helped me out when it came to attracting girls of all races. My first girlfriend was asian and a lot girls from other races found me attractive where a dark skinned brotha would have been tossed to the bushes. They weren't as hesitate to introduce me to their parents. Dark skinned girls practically FORCED the p*ssy on me and my presence alone had their sugar walls stuck on "waterfall".


-Even though I was black, I was able to blend in a lot with my hispanic friends like I was a cousin/brother and I never got any of the racism I hear other black people face when interacting with hispanic people. I also made friends EASILY with indian and middle easterners in college since I looked like them where they were a lot more standoffish towards the darker brothas. Even the samoans and pacific islanders fukked heavy with me. Indian girls were throwing p*ssy in my direction since I was technically lighter than them.


The tragic mulatto myth does have a bit of truth to it and a lot of light skins can be emotional/sensitive because they can't cope with it well. It can be hard being light skinned when everything, especially in America is hardcore race/color based.


I honestly feel like being light skinned in like Purgatory in America. It's no where near as bad as hell(being dark skinned) but it sure as hell is no where near as good as Heaven.(Being white) I wish America wasn't such a racist country because over seas, I noticed people give a lot less of a fukk about skin color while placing greater emphasis on culture/behavior/class.

I'm also a lot more militant than my dark skinned brothas IRL because I don't want to be seen as "that" kind of black guy who doesn't want to be black. I noticed dark skinned guys will be more open about their love of white girls while I will be silent and keep my attraction to a white chick much more secretive and low key.

 

[rapbeats]

noW...There's one other reason for these light brothas being in the forefront when it comes to helping out with the black struggle. It goes back to the reason the OP asked the question. Do light folks get better treatment then darker skinned folks? The answer is YES. This is why black folks in the 60's were at times intentionally pushing lighter folks out there to the masses because they knew that those were the folks White folks(people in charge) would actually speak to. The person thats easiest on the eyes is the person that looks as close to white as you could find within the leadership. and that was a very strategic and intelligent move to do that. because it worked.

Why do you think Obeezy got in office? he's just light enough to stomach for white folks.

 

[Yuzo]

White, Blonde hair and blue eyes is said to be the best thing on earth per the White....MAN. and since he has colonized/raped/pillaged every where. Now everyone believes this nonsense to some degree. So if you're not White, Blond hair and blue eyed.wait lets go further. If you're the opposite of that...Dark skin, Brown eyes, Dark Jet black hair. Then you are the opposite of GOOD. you are therefore BAD..Unattractive. no matter how attractive your features may actually be. This will make said dark person feel some type of way around all people. including those like them. everyone like them will try to do whatever they could to clown others so to keep the heat off of them "dangggg you black" (coming from someone who is as dark as you). That is code word for "please dont recognize how dark i am.look at her first"

thats accurate but also brunette whites dont tend to experience self hate for having dark eyes and dark hair. the main tenet in nazi philosophy was the inherent superiority of light features, light hair, light eyes, etc. mussolini actually feared that by aligning himself with nazis that this principle would create an inferiority complex in the italians since they possessed dark features. it would ultimately cause him to denounce nazi philosophy. the inherent superiority of blonde hair and blue eyes also became more and more brought into question throughout all of europe since most of the major achievements and the most prominent intellectuals throughout europe's history were done by darker featured whites (ie brunettes not blondes). theres evidence that the early slavic people were actually blondes but darker featured slavs (brunettes) were actually preferred over them causing them to become a darker featured people in the present day which would ironically make them into one of the enemies of the nazis.

the point im making is that the superiority of blonde hair and blue eyes does not have the same impact on brunette, brown eyed whites. they are able to avoid this because theres no evidence that blonde hair and blue eyes are inherently superior to them and actually a mountain of evidence to the contrary which they can point to and get behind. this is why its important to have black people representing black people not mixed or light skinned black people representing black people or for that matter mixed and light skinned black people being put on a pedestal by black people in general. mussolini feared that by putting blonde hair and blue eyes on a pedestal his italian people would grow to have an inferiority complex. if mussolini had been black he would have had a major problem with a person like jesse williams who he would feel to actually be doing more damage psychologically than good.

 

[Chrishaune]

Personally, I don't see at this point in "world" history why we should be worried about it. Yeah, think about it. Understand it. Don't over analyze it. Let's face it, if you don't have the ability to interact and work with people of all "ethnicities" you're not making it that far in life today. Sometimes that means getting close to other people and "mixing" it up. Hey, we're all human. I don't see a problem with it. I believe God created one race of people as human, and at some point he had to introduce different languages. I also believe we're the ones who decided to seperate each other by visual appearances. Everybody doesn't do it, but to those that do it's an odd thing to do when you think about it.
Do you. Live your life to the best of your ability. Don't worry about what people think about the things you're doing. There's only one Person's opinion you should be worried about in the end.

 

[kevm3]

You might get punished a bit less, but other than that, there's not any huge advantages. You have an advantage with dark skinned women, just as dark skinned men have an advantage with light skinned women. At the end of the day, you still get the black treatment by society.

 

[Thegospel]

hol up

 

[Thegospel]

Threads like this is why the coliseum >> the locker room.

I mean, I understand that there is truth to it but there are too too many threads about this shyt.

 

[Captain]

Society is in a constant state of flux, nothing stays the same... everything changes with time.

In the 80's it was light skin dominance... We had Prince, that nikka that sing the song sign your name, Quency Jones, all types of fly nikkas running the game, even Michael Jackson tried to get in on the action.

In the 90's it was the dark ages, Jordan, biggie, Denzel,Wesley Snipes SHUT IT DOWN for light skin brothers


But NOW it's a new day we have Obama propagating the light skin agenda once again and we are out here EATING...

 

[chief_keef_stan]

**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.

real nikka shyt

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

The majority of BM killed senselessly have been medium-toned, or more commonly, dark-skinned. When was the last time a light-skinned male was killed by an officer?

 

[TRY GOD]

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