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#TeamDarksin #TeamLightSkin #TeamBrownSkin We all know what team we belong to, and some of us may even be in denial about what team we are on, but one thing is for sure colorism has been around for a while now.
Colorism is defined as Prejudice or discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone, typically among people of the same ethnic or racial group.
In a changing American culture with an increasing minority population, skin color is becoming a more common gauge for some Americans--of all races--to determine who fits in and who does not.
The caste system that novelist Alice Walker termed "colorism" has existed in the black community since slavery, stemmed from the hierarchy established by slave masters for the light-skinned blacks who worked in the house and dark-skinned slaves who tended the fields. (Washington Post)
This caste system has continued to follow us into 2017. Skin tones come with tons of stereotypes. Dark skin women are more likely to be considered ugly and angry, serve harsher prison sentences, are two times more likely to receive the death penalty than their lighter counterparts, and thought of as whores. Lighter Skin Women are considered to be more feminine, prettier, and more likely to be hired despite their education, as well as more likely to marry.
We see these stereotypes often in our media. Rapper Kodak Black recently spoke of his preference for lighter women because he doesn't like his own skin tone. Video Vixen Melissa Ford has often talked about colorism in the music video world and how lighter women are treated better. In the Youtube documentary "Complexion Obsession" which focuses on colorism in hip-hop, rapper Rick Ross says that casting lighter women in video's is a mental getaway. Leaving one to wonder what he is trying to escape from.
In movies like "Coming To America" and the light skin good and desirable, dark skin angry, undesirable, whore we get a glimps of these stereotypes. Lisa was the good sister desired by an and African Prince as well as the Prince of Soul Glo, while Patrice was the whore who only wanted sex to the point that she would sleep with her sister ex. TV shows like "Martin" also display these stereotypes. Gina was the good, wifeable chick and Pam was the angry woman that couldn't keep a man. Now this is not to discredit the briliance of "Coming to America, " and "Martin", they will always be classics for black people, but that doesn't mean we have to overlook how these types of images have had a negative impact on the black community. These streoypes not only affect black women but also black men and have been around since the 19th century minstral shows.
Join as As We discuss Colorism in the Black Community.
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By Ashley Autumn & Ashley Monae#TeamDarksin #TeamLightSkin #TeamBrownSkin We all know what team we belong to, and some of us may even be in denial about what team we are on, but one thing is for sure colorism has been around for a while now.
Colorism is defined as Prejudice or discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone, typically among people of the same ethnic or racial group.
In a changing American culture with an increasing minority population, skin color is becoming a more common gauge for some Americans--of all races--to determine who fits in and who does not.
The caste system that novelist Alice Walker termed "colorism" has existed in the black community since slavery, stemmed from the hierarchy established by slave masters for the light-skinned blacks who worked in the house and dark-skinned slaves who tended the fields. (Washington Post)
This caste system has continued to follow us into 2017. Skin tones come with tons of stereotypes. Dark skin women are more likely to be considered ugly and angry, serve harsher prison sentences, are two times more likely to receive the death penalty than their lighter counterparts, and thought of as whores. Lighter Skin Women are considered to be more feminine, prettier, and more likely to be hired despite their education, as well as more likely to marry.
We see these stereotypes often in our media. Rapper Kodak Black recently spoke of his preference for lighter women because he doesn't like his own skin tone. Video Vixen Melissa Ford has often talked about colorism in the music video world and how lighter women are treated better. In the Youtube documentary "Complexion Obsession" which focuses on colorism in hip-hop, rapper Rick Ross says that casting lighter women in video's is a mental getaway. Leaving one to wonder what he is trying to escape from.
In movies like "Coming To America" and the light skin good and desirable, dark skin angry, undesirable, whore we get a glimps of these stereotypes. Lisa was the good sister desired by an and African Prince as well as the Prince of Soul Glo, while Patrice was the whore who only wanted sex to the point that she would sleep with her sister ex. TV shows like "Martin" also display these stereotypes. Gina was the good, wifeable chick and Pam was the angry woman that couldn't keep a man. Now this is not to discredit the briliance of "Coming to America, " and "Martin", they will always be classics for black people, but that doesn't mean we have to overlook how these types of images have had a negative impact on the black community. These streoypes not only affect black women but also black men and have been around since the 19th century minstral shows.
Join as As We discuss Colorism in the Black Community.