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I'm sure you've done numerous threads about this issue already but......... I like controversial events like this because it's a good illustration of the compexities of racism in the United States. People in other parts of the West often wonder about the love/hate relationship between the races in this nation. How can White people love Black music, sports, and food so much but yet not like Black people? How can the same White man who has a Black wife, mistress, or girlfriend be racist at the same time? I tell people that White slave masters used to love to bang the hell out of Black female slaves and even give them money and land.....all while lynching Black men or burning some of them alive, and many shake their heads in disbelief. Yet the same NYPD cop who stuck that stick up a Black man's ass has a Black wife. When they look at Donald Sterling they see a wealthy White man who loves the hell out of that brownskinned woman of color....yet is clearly racist and hates her Black ancestry and the Black men she hangs around with.

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Hello AALBC Family, I recently watched the documentary Dark Girls, that was featured on the OWN Network recently. The documentary addressed colorism issues in the Black community. I created my own reaction video including some interesting dialogue. Please check it out and tell me what you think.

"Dark" is a very vague term, Legaci. What constitutes darkness? Darker than what? I prefer more specifics especially since African Americans run the gamut from blue-black to high-yellow on the color spectrum. The first thing that came to my mind when I clicked on to your video was that I didn' consider you dark. As a "light-skinned sista", I can attest to the prejudices that females of my color encounter within the race. But I never felt motivated to try and prove myself "black enough". I accepted people the way they were and expected them to do the same to me,and my indifference to skin tone would eventually neutralize hostilities. What I did notice was that white people seemed to be more comfortable with me than "darker" members of my race. I also believe that color-conscious black men are equally focused on how well stacked up females are and that a statuesque, fine brown frame will trump a stocky overweight "red bone". I don't know that colorism will ever go away in America. This would call for the strength of character necessary to reject superficiality, and that's asking a lot for a country whose population wallows in phoniess Africa should've been more ruthless and ingenious and the European marauders wouldn't have emerged victorious. Then, white western standards wouldn't have prevailed. I don't know where these vicious thugs who make up the gangs that terrorize the inner cities got their aggressive genes from.