I am so proud, my search worked!
Just the other day I was walking down the street in my own world and some man started to talk to me. I was not ignoring him, I was just in my own space and did not notice. I did notice when he answered my silence with "What? You too light and saddity to tlk to a dark skinned bruva?"
I am very, VERY fair (like the other psot said- mistaken for mixed or sometimes just White) and as a child my shyness was often interpreted as being stuck up over being light. Ironically, I spent my whole childhood wishing I would wake up and be dark. They would assume I was stuck up becasue I was light. I still get it. I get the hey red and the why are you a Delta? You LOOK like an AKA. They're the lgiht ones and y'all are the dark ones.
WTF????
To me, that is an insult to both organizations.
I do think Black Americans are still color struck. To me, the popularity of Tyrese and Tyson are part of the same phenomenon. I mean we turn our complexion into a fashion statement. You can see trends over time of a complexion being "in". How twisted is that? Of all the things to make a trend. And one that you cannot change at all and can do damage to one's psyche.