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Re: Re: Re: Re: thanks lady greek
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Originally posted by DSTCHAOS
Yeah, I was teased for my light skin by my peers. I was told that I thought I was cute because I have "lightskin and long hair." I was told that "God didn't keep me in the oven long enough." In the past few years, I have been targeted by brown and darker skinned "pro-black" and Afrocentrics who feel vindicated by uplifting darker blacks at the price of telling lighter blacks that we aren't "black enough" or "lightskin is ugly." As if we all can't be uplifted and beautiful.
It is stupid.
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Wow, you are light-skinned with "good hair?" Who knew? 
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