WTH is a REDBONE?
 

Someone's username is Redbone Zeta on another greek forum. I heard of the word redbone some where else too. I would ask on that forum, but I don't want to get clowned, cuz peeps on that forum can get sheisty at times (except for starang :cool: )

light skin

But not as light as "yellow".

Lol
 

Now , yeah they might have clowned you for that.....you safe here with your peeps...Don't tell no body you did'nt know what that meant....you black right? (cracking up):D

Just kidding

Hmmmm...between "high-yellow" and "brownskinned"?

Someone PMed me a different definition. I guess this word has more than one meaning, like "hoosier" (not the poster, lol).

yea thats the definition I am familiar w/
someone who is very light skinned

Old Folks would call Faith Evans, maybe Halle Berry and I'm thinking Beyonce a red bone.

Alicia Keys would be "high yella". I originally came from NY, but was raised primarily in the South. I got so sick of those terms - esp. when used as an insult.

Do you mean Faith Evans? ;)

Yeah I was confused on the Faith Hill example too...

Oh lord... LOL! Yeah - Faith Evans. I guess Faith Hill would be - um - really high yella. Let me go edit.

I've had people call me a redbone, but I am not light-skinned. I have sandy colored hair (with a natural reddish tint, no help from Soft & Beautiful) and light brown eyes, and medium-complexioned.

It may depend on where you're from as to whom the term is referred.

Must be a regional thang - lol
 

I have been called red-boned, too, but I am not light-skinned. Light-skinned folx were referred to as yellow or high-yellow.

I too have been called red-bone but I am far from it. Hell when I tan I get dark.

I think those terms are so effin stupid :rolleyes:

Me also. And I get dark if I get too much sun riding in a car.

Well, my father, before he got dark (he was a CPO in the Navy and later a letter carrier in sunny Kollyfornia), was referred to as a "Tennessee red (expletive)."
I've been called high yellow. I shrug it off.