Why do people have different definitions of dark skin?

[stepbackj34spud]

It's no different than people having different definitions of what is tall, what is fat, what is good looking, etc.

Let them say their dumb opinion and keep it moving. Buffie The Body is clearly dark skinned. Nia Long can be considered dark skinned and brown skinned. Some of us are on that edge between dark and brown.

These are two dark skin woman. Smh./thread.

 

[stepbackj34spud]

Lisa Bonet isn’t black or Negroe to be precise. She’s a mix breed. Pls tell me you’re trolling. Surely your esteem would be high enough not to call a mixed person negro. Would a white person call a mix person white with wooly hair? Would the japanese do it? Would the Chinese?

Talk bro.

 

[Will Ross]

Brownskin is really a self-hating term
People that don't want to be called dark skin.
that is why you will get different pov.

 

[Laidbackman]

I want to first began by saying brown-skinned people always considered themselves on the dark-skinned side, when it came to light skin and dark skin.

A lot may not agree, but I think people who come from a predominately Black environment have pretty much the same perception of who they'd consider dark-skinned and who they'd consider light-skinned, and who they'd consider is some where in-between. Even though there's a larger grey area than it was when I was coming up, and it may not be as easy to agree on someones skintone as it use to be (probably because of more mixing), I still believing as a group, we have pretty close opinions on skintone for the most part. For example in my predominately Black high school, we all agreed on who was in the light-skinned category, and who was in the dark-skinned category, while few were labeled some where in-between. If I saw these same classmates today, we'd still have the same opinion. But I will admit, when viewing my high school yearbook, some of the students I considered in the light-skinned category, including myself, don't look quite as light as they did back then. But they still fall no where near the dark-skinned category, or even the brown-skinned category.

I believe most of the confusion come from people giving their opinions on the internet, but aren't even Black.

 

[RareHunter]

Talk bro.

Lol we the only ppl doing that, and we have the best genetics, even the cacs admit they becoming sterile from sun exposure because they left the caves. The Bible is also about Negroes. I have nothing against them, but we shouldn’t be procreating with them and birthing mixed ppl at the expense of ourselves, that’s insanity. The skin color doesn’t even really matter, as Negroes come in different shades.

 

[Wubzy]

Because skin color is a spectrum and everyone draws their own arbitrary line in it

 

[GoAggieGo.]

Man, in my book, you’re either dark, brown, or light skin; with light skin having the sub categories of red or yella bone.

Buffie is my complexion, and I’ve always been called and see myself as dark skinned.

This shyt ain’t hard. Oh, and Zoe is black.

 

[stepbackj34spud]

Brownskin is really a self-hating term
People that don't want to be called dark skin.
that is why you will get different pov.

Theres only darkskin or light. Brown is a dark color, thus being “darkskin”.

 

[stepbackj34spud]

Lol we the only ppl doing that, and we have the best genetics, even the cacs admit they becoming sterile from sun exposure because they left the caves. The Bible is also about Negroes. I have nothing against them, but we shouldn’t be procreating with them and birthing mixed ppl at the expense of ourselves, that’s insanity. The skin color doesn’t even really matter, as Negroes come in different shades.

I agree. Its sad.

 

[RareHunter]

Man, in my book, you’re either dark, brown, or light skin; with light skin having the sub categories of red or yella bone.

Buffie is my complexion, and I’ve always been called and see myself as dark skinned.

This shyt ain’t hard. Oh, and Zoe is black.

How?

 

[Ɀoᥱɣ]

In the black community you aren't dark skin unless you're darker than the observer

It's subjective

The rapper LightSkinKisha is light skinned to somebody


But she's not lightskinned

I'm the exact same skintone as her and personally consider myself brownskin but I have been called lightskin quite a few times in my life.

 

[Antwon Mitchell]

I already know what lightskin looks like since its easily distinguishable so I'm not gonna speak on that.

To me the three categories are lightskin, brownskin, and darkskin. I think most would agree but I've noticed lately people tend to disregard brownskin and just lump us in with darkskin.

Brownskin and darkskin are very different. I see a milk chocolate Hershey bar as being equivalent to brownskin whereas a dark chocolate bar is equivalent to being darkskin. Visually both are clearly different than each when placed side by side so to say the milk chocolate is as dark as the dark chocolate bar is oxymoronic.

Only on the coli have I heard Black ppl pretending Brownskin doesn't exist but in real life, most Black folks acknowledge the brownskin complexion.

I see so many people on here call Nia Long lightskin when in reality she's brownskin same as Gabrielle Union.

Brownskin imo means to be in the middle. You're not lightskin and you aren't darkskin either but just in between the two.

 

[SleezyBigSlim]

Just read through that buffie the booty thread and multiple brehs said she’s not dark skin.

I’ve also heard a person say Nia Long isn’t dark skin either.

Nia Long is not dark skin, she has a regular black African complexion the fukk you talking bout

 

[Joe Budden]

Nia Long is not dark skin, she has a regular black African complexion the fukk you talking bout

Why do you seem offended? And what is a regular black American complexion.

 

[King Poetic]

Everyone has their own perception of dark, brown skinned and light skinned

If u black then u know

If u a white person like the 60% of the coli then u cacs will say Kerry Washington is dark skinned and Toni Braxton is Light skinned

Don’t matter to me… I just like my women medium well to well done… u cacs can have your pink