She’s brown skin but she’s still biracial.By no stretch of the imagination is Yara Shahidi "light-skinned".
The Biracial Aesthetic: Colorism and Hollywood.
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I don’t have time for articles that continue to frame this as something that only happens to black women. Her discussion of television missed an opportunity to talk about the way biracial children, are favored over black children, including boys.
They dont even look alike, they really did not want a dark or brown skin little boy on TV unless they’re playing a little hoodlum .
Shhh this the internet we don't want to talk with common sense.
I don’t have time for articles that continue to frame this as something that only happens to black women. Her discussion of television missed an opportunity to talk about the way biracial children, are favored over black children, including boys.
They dont even look alike, they really did not want a dark or brown skin little boy on TV unless they’re playing a little hoodlum .
Colorism is even worse with our children. Those advertisements with “children of all races” never have black boys and girls. They’re always biracial, very pale.
And this has been going on since the 1990s. If you look at old ads from the 70s or 80s black children were actually black.
That said, it affects women more. Look at those “black families” in commercials. Black father and son, biracial mother and/or daughter.
Also until these writers talking about boycotting shows and movies they just throwing raw flesh out there to get clicks on the internet.
By no stretch of the imagination is Yara Shahidi "light-skinned".
"By no stretch of the imagination"
Breh, she's pretty close. Its not like its that much of a reach
Dwayne_Taylor
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Naw, these commercials will have a black father and the wife and kids will all be biracial; including the boys. they are so scarded of black boys A lot of times they will leave the boy out completly and the family wont even have a son. This happens to black men as well and to black boys just as much.
But the Blavity/ Root crowd has done a good job of erasing our experiences so they can continue framing it as something black men do to black women.
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Lets not argue over who is more oppressed. You guys are both right.
Black girls are replaced with biracials
Black boys are completely removed from the picture entire.
Either way the end result is that children with same complexion as us are not seeing themselves represented in the media.
Then you guys need to talk about it.
They’re not erasing your experience. The overwhelming majority of “black” actresses cast in major black roles are almost always biracial now. That is simply not the case for black actors.
BruhManFromTheFifthFlo
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Not reading that shyt. She sexy. Get over it 
Dwayne_Taylor
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SheWantTheD
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Can I get some context on this?I don’t have time for articles that continue to frame this as something that only happens to black women. Her discussion of television missed an opportunity to talk about the way biracial children, are favored over black children, including boys.
They dont even look alike, they really did not want a dark or brown skin little boy on TV unless they’re playing a little hoodlum .
Breh many of these commercials won't even have a black father...
.Dude won't even be in the commercial or replaced by a white man...
.Got to watch BET or TVone just to see black couples in commercials..
