DARK/LIGHT...SKIN COLOR.........Is this still an issue? Let's be honest Sorors & SF'

[Still BLUTANG]

if it was "sexy chocolate" night then i think EVERY shade of cocoa would have found a way to get in free. People claiming "white chocolate" or "milk chocolate" or "dark chocolate"....ya know?

the whole light/dark thing gives me headaches sometimes. SOMETIMES its like the dark sisters are complaining from a sense of inferiority that no one has placed upon them but themselves - i am dark so i guess i'm allowed to say that. i dont know any light sistas who think they're better than ___, but i know plenty of dark sistas who THINK that light sistas think they are.

[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by Still BLUTANG

if it was "sexy chocolate" night then i think EVERY shade of cocoa would have found a way to get in free. People claiming "white chocolate" or "milk chocolate" or "dark chocolate"....ya know?

the whole light/dark thing gives me headaches sometimes. SOMETIMES its like the dark sisters are complaining from a sense of inferiority that no one has placed upon them but themselves - i am dark so i guess i'm allowed to say that. i dont know any light sistas who think they're better than ___, but i know plenty of dark sistas who THINK that light sistas think they are.

I know a few light skinned sistahs who have said that about me and I have a medium brown complexion.

I actually prefer having a darker complexion because I think I look healthier.

What is funny, when I was in Hawaii 2 weeks ago, some kids were playing in the ocean lagoon and I walked by to see a beached sea turtle. One of the kids were may have been Hawaiian exclaimed, "look at how BLACK she is"... There was no reason to be angry, because I dunno if they knew what they were saying, but I found it rather silly and ironic.

[Munchkin03]

I'm always amazed, even now, at how much stock some of us still put in skin tones.

Over the summer, I was at a family wedding when a cousin I hadn't seen in about 15 years was discussing various family members--and their skin tones! Maybe I'm naive, but I had never thought about my uncles and aunts in terms of who was the darkest and lightest. But, apparently she had! She also told me and my sister how "lucky" we were to have been born with green and hazel eyes.