Dark Skin Vs Light Skin- the division of the Black Race

Ok people, let's take a little trip down the history lane, look at one of the most obvious signs of still existing racism amongst black people.

Most Ignorant young men in society today have this argument that light skinned women are just better looking than  any dark-skinned girl. Bearing in mind that these young men are very much dark-skinned themselves, you have to ask the obvious question of where this absurd mentality comes from.

The answer is it all started in the days of slavery. Back in the slavery days, the man divided the blacks into two parts Light Nigger(house negro) and Dark Nigger(field negro). The light nigger was closer to white, the only thing acceptable for the white man, so they got to work inside. While the light skinned individual worked inside of the plantation, cooking for the master, cleaning the master's dirty clothes, and teaching the owner's wife how to cook cornbread; the darker skinned slave worked outside in the field, picking cotton, hanging laundry, and helped grow the crops. The darker person was treated like nothing while the lighter one (although still Negro) was treated better and worshiped secretly by the master as she became his secret mistress, his black buck.

Then when slavery was officially abolished, the older people placed that same hate inside of their own family... Many of the slaves were raped by the white man therefore some of their children came out light skinned while their younger children came out dark skinned. The light skinned individual became the highlight of the family because they were the closest thing to white and that's what the man has placed inside of our head to feel like anything closest to white was right...


Then it came something called the Brown Paper Bag Test where a mother wouldn't't even allow her son to date a woman whose skin was darker than a paper bag afraid that the kid would come out dark like a tar baby  with nappy hair. Then you had black sororities and fraternities who used the "brown paper bag test" to deny entrance to anyone darker than the bag.


There was then something invented called the Bleaching Cream where dark skinned girls everywhere started to bleach their face wanting to get rid of their natural tan-chocolate skin and trade it in for a lighter face so that they could be accepted more in their families. 


What we don't realize is show business is what messed up the men of today's minds about dark skinned women. For example; we can look at decades of rap music videos where the preferred "ho" is a lighter shade of brown. In fact, most music videos where the category of black women are cast, are light-skinned; it's almost as if to replace the dark-skinned females in the black race with lighter models.

These light skinned girls were dressed the best, they had they little wet and wavy weave on, nice make up and they were good to go. These videos made the average light skinned girl look like a Spanish, Asian, or white girl...They took the fantasy of the black man sleeping with a white girl and placed it all into their light skinned dream. These girls looked so banging in these videos that it forced guys all around the town to believe that every light skinned girl was pretty with long hair. Hence they bought into the racial bias against their culture that was sold to them. This is a symptom of 'post-traumatic slave syndrome'.

Actress Jennifer Beals' famous quote- "I thought I would never get in. I thought they only took geniuses. But I was lucky, because I'm a minority. I'm not Black, and I'm not White, so I could mark 'other' on my application, and I guess it's hard for them to fill that quota," a quote on how she got into Yale University.

More recently there was the University of Georgia's 2006 controversial study on skin tone which confirmed that light-skinned blacks are often more likely to be considered for jobs over dark-skinned blacks.

And while our lighter skin shades can be attributed to the slave masters' preference for his female black slaves over his own wife, we can't blame them for us continuing to feed into the hype that light is good and dark is bad.

Most light skinned girls were told their whole lives that they were beautiful and I am not saying this for all light skinned girls but most of the ones I've come across are suffering from insecurity issues because a lot of the times they are objectified as what they are rather than who they are. This results in promiscuosity and switching from one guy to another looking for love. While the men were telling the light skinned girls how pretty they were, the dark skinned girls were home, working hard at school, becoming focused career women and that's why a lot of dark skinned women are successful. This isn't true for all though.

Notice how the media is replacing the definition of a black woman with women with black in them or of lighter shades and with more caucasian features, and the whole time we are continuously buying into this idea; from hollywood to the streets and even to the slums of the motherland.

Then it all comes down to this- you're pretty for a dark skinned girl. (This is something i've been a victim of time and time again). All that statement means is you're pretty but most dark skinned girls are ugly or you're way past their expectation for a dark skinned girl. Do people expect you to be ugly when you're a  little darker than the average person?

One love to all the black females that are holding it down in the media despite the obvious racism that exists against blacks and especially against black women of a darker shade. Angela Bassett, Gabrielle Union, Lauryn Hill, Kelly Rowland, Naomi Campbell, Serena & Venus Williams to name but a few. 

The fact is Black is black no matter the skin shade, the moment you have any black in you, you are part of the struggle and discrimination. When are we as a race going to rise up and stick together. We are strong hard-bearing individuals on our own so imagine what we can do together, Why where we divided in the first place??.... think about it.

Peace and love.

Lola Faith x