Colorism - Light Girls vs Dark Girls.....Can we heal this Divide

[jah_yout]

Mental slavery ting...
films like this and "good hair" only prove that the so-called black people are still happily mentally enslaved and refuse to leave that position.
Only capable of seeing themselves thru the eyes of so-called white people.
It's 2015 a t I'm losing hope. ..seeing regression instead of progress

[kia027]

Mental slavery ting...
films like this and "good hair" only prove that the so-called black people are still happily mentally enslaved and refuse to leave that position.
Only capable of seeing themselves thru the eyes of so-called white people.
It's 2015 a t I'm losing hope. ..seeing regression instead of progress

If it is not talked about as to why it is a problem, then how will it get fixed?

[evanovitch]

frankly there r two sets of people who mek colourism a platform…fair skin people who enjoy being fairskin given what dem see a gwane if u not n darkskin people who have hangups towards the fairskin…u haffi tek any from either group with a grain of salt…cause some fairskin ongle play lip service but wallow in being brown…dem wrap demself in culture but will be the first if pushed to build up the part of the family that give them the fairskin…the darkskin wi fuss but yet an still hanker after a brown man fi mek dem pickney come out one shade up…as fi all the men who seh dem love dem African Queen, mek a browning or a whites wink n gi dem di come hither n u see how fast dem fly go teck a dip..coo all who wrap demselve in Ites green n gold n have this long list of what dem Queen cannot do , yet n still dem said one have dem ooman with nuff makeup, belly leff out n even the odd white …lip service pay to issues but few go past dat…flapping the lips…feh

[franksterr]

frankly there r two sets of people who mek colourism a platform…fair skin people who enjoy being fairskin given what dem see a gwane if u not n darkskin people who have hangups towards the fairskin…u haffi tek any from either group with a grain of salt

Colorism is a social phenomena, that is a benefit for one set of people while being a misfortune for another set of people.
Enjoying the skin you are in....is something we all should do.
Having hangups about our skin or some one else's skin is a no no
Don't get me wrong there is nothing wrong with having a preference for one or the other....but to be prejudice is different.

The truth is one experiences privilege whilst for the other it becomes an handicap...That must change and We Can and We Will.

…cause some fairskin ongle play lip service but wallow in being brown…dem wrap demself in culture but will be the first if pushed to build up the part of the family that give them the fairskin…

Who does not want to be privileged or even seen as privileged

the darkskin wi fuss but yet an still hanker after a brown man fi mek dem pickney come out one shade up…as fi all the men who seh dem love dem African Queen, mek a browning or a whites wink n gi dem di come hither n u see how fast dem fly go teck a dip..coo all who wrap demselve in Ites green n gold n have this long list of what dem Queen cannot do , yet n still dem said one have dem ooman with nuff makeup, belly leff out n even the odd white …lip service pay to issues but few go past dat…flapping the lips…feh

When I was a young man it did not matter to me what race or skin color the woman was that was showing me interest....back then I would never turn down the opportunity for sex, ugly or old....my only requirement was original human female and healthy

I say to say that cheating spouse cheat regardless of race or color and sometimes even gender.

[franksterr]

Mental slavery ting...
films like this and "good hair" only prove that the so-called black people are still happily mentally enslaved and refuse to leave that position.
Only capable of seeing themselves thru the eyes of so-called white people.
It's 2015 a t I'm losing hope. ..seeing regression instead of progress

Maybe it's because they do not know they are mentally enslaved?

[jah_yout]

Maybe it's because they do not know they are mentally enslaved?

Maybe not but stupidity is unbecoming of a people. .at this point it's been discussed for decades. People are willfully choosing to keep this nonsense going. ..
this type of public humiliation is a setback for the race. ..
no other people make whole movies discussing their racial characteristics or the fight between them...
look how long the prophet Marcus tell them emancipate yourself from mental slavery...re-tweeted by Bob Marley. ..
so to me at this point these people are choosing mental slavery. ..
caught up in love with Babylon and Hollyweird

[franksterr]

Maybe not but stupidity is unbecoming of a people. .at this point it's been discussed for decades. People are willfully choosing to keep this nonsense going. ..

I share your frustration....
To know you are sick is not the same as knowing how to remedy the illness.

this type of public humiliation is a setback for the race. ..
no other people make whole movies discussing their racial characteristics or the fight between them...

From where we coming from, this is a healing.
If we consider that the French English Spanish and Germans are the same race the make many movies about their idiosyncrasies and differences.
The Italians in particular even suffer a Regionalism that borders on Colorism - Northerner(light) dislike Southerner(dark)

look how long the prophet Marcus tell them emancipate yourself from mental slavery...re-tweeted by Bob Marley. ..

I thought that was Selassie....but point taken.
I remember when I was in High school I went to the Principal(head master) and told him that it would be better he taught Garvey than Shakespeare as he is more relevant.....I was told one is literature and the other is philosophy - we do not teach philosophy after which I was summarily ran out of his office.
So I know of what you speak.

so to me at this point these people are choosing mental slavery. ..
caught up in love with Babylon and Hollyweird

I am not sure most of them understand that the are mentally enslave.
The documentary in some way is an attempt to inform in the hope that those who view them will further discuss and thereby educate themselves about the issue and all come to a greater understanding or overstanding.

[franksterr]

this type of public humiliation is a setback for the race. ..
no other people make whole movies discussing their racial characteristics or the fight between them...

From where we coming from, this is a healing....Something we should be proud we are doing.
Colorism is Global in that it is found on every continent among diverse peoples, but we Africans are dealing with it head on, whilst most others are hiding from it

and among the Chinese...start from the 7' minute mark.

[Tropicana]

[franksterr]

Yes it comes from us NOW but it did not start with us....

Some says it started with the story of "Ham's curse" whilst other say it was evident in the story about Moses Marrying and Ethiopian woman.

To me it started in the so called Aryan conquest over the Dravidians and its institutionalization of a Caste system based on Skin Color better known as a Pigmentocracy....by far the worst

The Second great incarnation was in what is called the "Punic wars"...Wars between Rome and the African Country then Known as Carthage. The Jews and the Arabs (Iconoclastic Wars) kept it alive and introduced it to Europeans....some what benign when view in comparison.

The Third great thrust of Colorism in Global consciousness came with the advent of European Mercantile Imperialism(Colonialism). Which is the period we are in now....falls in the middle.

Today it is kept alive and pushed for the main part by Media (Cultural Imperialism) especially and in particular the Rap Industry......from whence our salvation/solution can most easily come.