Rollo Goodlove
Palestine Titty
Arent you carribean
re: Being Light Skin
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No, i’m from ohio. My great great grandfathers on both sides fought in the civil war for the union. I’ve never once mentioned the carribean since my sohh days until you mentioned it just now. But i believe there are black people out there too so whatever point you failed to make is moot.but in your defense thats as far back that i’ve been able to trace my family lineage so maybe you know something i don’t
seabreeze80
All Star
A lot of these guys calling themselves light skinned are not light skinned. Then they have the audacity to say that all black people are treated the same. They wouldn't know anything about privilege because no one considers them privileged to begin with. Unless you are biracial and light, you do not experience true light skinned privilege. Born2BKing isn't light skinned. I would ignore anything he has to say on the topic.
MajesticLion
Veteran
A chain is a chain, whether it comes with threats or sweet lullabies.
even tho this might be true, its not just regulated to skin color and how you look.
it shows in class - DS Black kids can in proximity with whiteness, and many white kids befriend and absorbed them in. due to them both being in the same class
gender - Black women and their privileges over Black men
ethnicity - Africans/Caribbeans are preferred more than ADOS
and other factors I leave out.
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dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
Care to expound? Are you talking about biracial white or two black parent light skin?
I’ve been kicked out of stores, ignored by sales associates, been reminded of how much something cost and steered to cheaper products when shopping, had my academic track record and previous performance in the math olympics ignored in elementary the year the teachers went on strike and they sent a white girl from my class to the city event, means my groups of friends were harassed more often by school officials elementary- high school (ie supposedly we couldn’t wear spaghetti strap shirts to school, yet the white girls were never bothered while I, and my friends, got wrote up), I’ve been stopped by the police, followed in stores, and been an “outsider” in majority white spaces...in none of these situations has being light afforded me privilege. Y’all gotta stop with this, light or dark, we still nikkas to them.
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
Actually yeah, I’m sorry, but you can’t point to a study as proof that my life is better when I’m the one living it and have yet to see any of those so called light skin benefits. People will always account for their experience over some poll or “study”...
So you think that you're anecdotal experiences and your feelings are more credible than these studies......ok cook away breh.
I can look across all the segments of my life and see dark and light skin people both doing good and bad and know skin color ain’t what got them in their situation and skin color sure ain’t save any of them either
Have to put it in a series of tweets.You kno niccas dont read
Rollo Goodlove
Palestine Titty
Replies like these are the problem. Stop telling people their individual experiences do not matter, because they always will.
So you think that you're anecdotal experiences and your feelings are more credible than these studies......ok cook away breh.
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Dwayne_Taylor
Superstar
The only people being dismissed here are the dark skined people cataloged in the studies I posted. Dispite the study, Lightbearerchef prefers to believe dark-skinned kids get lower grades because they dont study as hard. Anti intellectualism is the problem. He asked for facts, I gave him facts, now he's saying the facts don't matter because of his "feelings " sounding like a whole flat earther.
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CinnaSlim
Queen of Swords
I dont want to expound or go back and forth. Just want to point out that you are comparing your experience to white folks in this post whose proximity to whiteness is obviously closer than yours.
The post is reminiscent of when white people I know say they grew up broke or were discriminated against for their tats and the way they look and since they struggled too then that means that they don't have white privilege.
I can't have a conversation about privilege, if everyone doesn't understand what privilege is and how it works. Doesn't mean that one's life was peachy while others were put down. It means one had/have certain advantages that others didnt.
People get triggered when you point out their privileges. Most privileged people dont recognize their privilege because they've always had it. But to the underprivileged, it's glaringly obvious where they're lacking. With that in mind, we just ask that you listen with an open mind when someone comes to you about their disadvantages rather than being defensive about your privileges or lack there of.
And to the other gentleman who quoted me @Cadillac , obviously skin color isnt treated in isolation/in a vacuum. In addition to colorism, there is racism, sexism, classism, featurism, ablism, homophobia, xenophobia and the list goes on. I just have a problem with people who deny it's existence or the significance.
I ended up expounding
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
I’m not being defensive, I’ve gone through everything someone darker than me goes through which is the only point I was making. As for listening with an open mind, one, maybe you all should do the same who have this concept in your head that LS blacks have privilege when we can sit here and look across our lives and not find any examples of lighter skin keeping us from being b lack first.I dont want to expound or go back and forth. Just want to point out that you are comparing your experience to white folks in this post whose proximity to whiteness is obviously closer than yours.
The post is reminiscent of when white people I know say they grew up broke or were discriminated against for their tats and the way they look and since they struggled too then that means that they don't have white privilege.
I can't have a conversation about privilege, if everyone doesn't understand what privilege is and how it works. Doesn't mean that one's life was peachy while others were put down. It means one had/have certain advantages that others didnt.
People get triggered when you point out their privileges. Most privileged people dont recognize their privilege because they've always had it. But to the underprivileged, it's glaringly obvious where they're lacking. With that in mind, we just ask that you listen with an open mind when someone comes to you about their disadvantages rather than being defensive about your privileges or lack there of.
And to the other gentleman who quoted me @Cadillac , obviously skin color isnt treated in isolation/in a vacuum. In addition to colorism, there is racism, sexism, classism, featurism, ablism, homophobia, xenophobia and the list goes on. I just have a problem with people who deny it's existence or the significance.
I ended up expounding
Furthermore, please miss me with that. I’m not from some long line of light skin black people, just within my immediate family my dad is dark, mom brown, I came out light, one brother darker than eve my dad and one brother lighter than me. I’ve lived and am BFFs with people of all colors and never has something worked out better for me because of skin color. I fully understand historically when LS blacks were mainly mullatoes, there was a distinct privilege, yall trying to extend that to today...for regular LS people, not the Valerie Jett's of the world...is laughable.
Lastly, my observation is that it’s white acting black people who get afforded privilege, regardless of color. If you’re the type to want to be all up under white folks, they’re generally more comfortable with you and you integrate into their spaces much easier
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lightbearerchef
Von!!!
I think that’s what people are doing, they’re confusing the 10% of generationally mixed light skin people that also had education and money that was given to them in some will by a great grandfather slave master and think it applies to the rest of the 90%. It doesn’t. The privilege that we think we see is the intersection of skin color + education + money. You take away the generational education and money which was afforded under a specific set of circumstances, and you got light skin people that got the same issues as dark skin people.
Today, who has more privilege in a place like Alabama? Be dark skin + athletic at an SEC school and see how much you could get away with compared to the light skin nikka in the band.