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04-01-2008, 03:02 PM
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Did this come from "massa," though?
I think a lot of it comes from North America ideals and "divide and conquer" tactics but throughout this world's history cultures always had ways of dividing and ranking. Before "race," there was color, class, family lineage, gender, etc.
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I'm speaking specifically about slave relations in North America and the divisions created between light skinned/mixed Blacks and darker Blacks. The whole house slave/field slave mentality.
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04-01-2008, 03:14 PM
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From there she can focus on schooling ignorant people who are afraid of DAHHHHKNESSS!!! 
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LMAO....you are the best! I spit out my drink because I started thinking about Dave Chappell (sp?).
Well, I have stayed away from this thread for a number of reasons. However, I decided to take a read today. Wow...well...all I will say is that my parents had a darkskinned child....a girl to be exact...and word on the street is she is the shizzle!
Embrace the dahhhhkness  because there are more important things in the world to concern yourselves with. What color my child may turn out to be is the LAST thing on mind, and honestly I am a bit surprised to hear that someone doesn't want to have a darkskinned/lightskinned or whatever child. Shoot, if you see my family, you will surely get a taste of the rainbow!
As DSTCHAOS said, I am certainly holding back too...but this is really a trip...
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04-01-2008, 03:30 PM
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The 21st Century, eh?
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LMAO....you are the best! I spit out my drink because I started thinking about Dave Chappell (sp?). Yep!
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Well, I have stayed away from this thread for a number of reasons. However, I decided to take a read today. Wow...well...all I will say is that my parents had a darkskinned *insert ANY adjective here*child....a girl to be exact...and word on the street is she is the shizzle!
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'Cause if YOU don't think so....who else will? 
ETA: I'm sad because I'm thinking about my Sororfriend and hubby who have tried desperately to have a child. She just completed a series of treatments where she had to take shots 2 and 3 times a day. After completing the process, she STILL can't have a child. I'm sure they would not care what he/she looked like as long as she could ONLY carry a child to term.
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04-01-2008, 03:40 PM
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04-01-2008, 03:43 PM
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It will always be an issue...i think light skinned people have it easier than those with dark skinned. Being light is as close to white as it gets. I'm dark-skinned and proud of it!
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04-01-2008, 03:52 PM
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Flipping the script...
They aren't really light-skinned... They aren't really white...
I have seen 2-3 people in my lifetime who look like this. I do not know anyone personally. Little girl has a cute smile!!!
This genetic mutation has occured for millions of years and parents who bring the child to adulthood, usually are shunned. It is culturally taboo to have one of these children. Which is rather sad because I think that is where hatred of one's skin started with this anthropological and genetic mutation...
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04-01-2008, 03:58 PM
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I'm speaking specifically about slave relations in North America and the divisions created between light skinned/mixed Blacks and darker Blacks. The whole house slave/field slave mentality.
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Gotcha.
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04-01-2008, 04:02 PM
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LMAO....you are the best! I spit out my drink because I started thinking about Dave Chappell (sp?).
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DAHHHHHKNESS, everyone!
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Originally Posted by Velocity_14
Well, I have stayed away from this thread for a number of reasons. However, I decided to take a read today. Wow...well...all I will say is that my parents had a darkskinned child....a girl to be exact...and word on the street is she is the shizzle!
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Eh...you AIGHT. 
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04-01-2008, 04:06 PM
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Flipping the script...
They aren't really light-skinned... They aren't really white...
I have seen 2-3 people in my lifetime who look like this. I do not know anyone personally. Little girl has a cute smile!!!
This genetic mutation has occured for millions of years and parents who bring the child to adulthood, usually are shunned. It is culturally taboo to have one of these children. Which is rather sad because I think that is where hatred of one's skin started with this anthropological and genetic mutation... |
I'm not trying to be smart, but what point are you making? I have seen quite a few Black Albinos. I have an aunt and cousin who are Albino. I never heard of it being culturally taboo (maybe it is in Africa). Albinos can be of any race; they are even among animals. I can still look at the people in these pictures and tell they are Black/African.
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04-01-2008, 04:07 PM
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Flipping the script...
They aren't really light-skinned... They aren't really white...
I have seen 2-3 people in my lifetime who look like this. I do not know anyone personally. Little girl has a cute smile!!!
This genetic mutation has occured for millions of years and parents who bring the child to adulthood, usually are shunned. It is culturally taboo to have one of these children. Which is rather sad because I think that is where hatred of one's skin started with this anthropological and genetic mutation... |
Well...yeah...they are albino and albinoism occurs in every racial group. I have only seen black/African diasporic and white albinos in person, though.
So, suffice it to say that I would prefer that my child not be void of pigment. That's a taboo that is more than a cultural issue. It is not an issue of not wanting a child who is "too light" or "too dark."
But I figured today that someone was going to bring up albinos in this thread. And I didn't bring up albinos because that is a completely different topic.
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04-01-2008, 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by rhoyaltempest
I'm not trying to be smart, but what point are you making? I have seen quite a few Black Albinos. I have an aunt and cousin who are Albino. I never heard of it being culturally taboo (maybe it is in Africa). Albinos can be of any race; they are even among animals. I can still look at the people in these pictures and tell they are Black/African.
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There was this albino squirrel at the walking trail I walked on years ago.
Like you said, the facial features are the same. I'm sure there are cultural taboos because most humans aren't thrilled or completely informed at the concept of genetic mutations. Plus, among darkness, being the only one with bleached looking hair and pale skin will make one DIFFERENT. DIFFERENCES frighten people PERIOD. And I admit that having no pigmentation has a negative impact on the level of physical attractiveness for most of the albinos that I've seen.
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04-01-2008, 04:13 PM
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Well...yeah...they are albino and albinoism occurs in every racial group. I have only seen black/African diasporic and white albinos in person, though.
So, suffice it to say that I would prefer that my child not be void of pigment. That's a taboo that is more than a cultural issue. It is not an issue of not wanting a child who is "too light" or "too dark."
But I figured today that someone was going to bring up albinos in this thread. And I didn't bring up albinos because that is a completely different topic.
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Also Albinoism is a birth defect that comes with special care. My aunt and cousin can't go outside in bright light without wearing sunglasses among other things. This is entirely different from the genetic mutations that occurred to create a race of people from another.
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04-01-2008, 04:15 PM
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I'm dark-skinned and proud of it! |
I'm black and proud!
It just so happens that I'm a lightskinned black person.
Who has it tougher? Eh, what a waste of brain space. This thread isn't about that and to compare forms of struggle within a race is divide and conquer at its finest!
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04-01-2008, 05:16 PM
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I do not dislike dark-skinned people, but I don't want daqrk-skinned kids. Simply being honest.
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I am so disturbed hearing [reading] this.
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04-01-2008, 05:37 PM
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i feel like she called us dark-skinned folks "darkies" or "jungle bunnies" by sharing.
who thought this stuff ended years ago? if you watch videos by OUR artists and add this person's feelings, you'll see that not much has changed.
Intraracism, gotta love it 
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