It's kind of sad that there are also racism inside the black community, like there are many blacks with lighter skin that discriminate or reject blacks with darker one.
Sad.

This also happens vice versa

But yeah, it's very sad

It's really just a form of Internalised racism as a result of the society we live in.

It's sad that racism can go so deep that it can even effect people of colour and how they perceive themselves

The "light skin" black people you talk about are most likely part latino, white and/or native American. So in reality they're mixed race.

Alicia Keys, Drake, Nicki Minaj, Barack Obama, Kevin Gates, and so on are all light-skinned because they're mixed race. And lots of African Americans who think they're fully black take DNA tests and find out they're not.

Rihanna most likely has Native American DNA in her considering she's from the Caribbean, for example (my mother is Caribbean also and she has a bit of Native American DNA in her and says it's very common for Caribbean people). So Rihanna is probably not 100% of African descent. Akon is an example of a celebrity who really is probably 100% black.

My point is, this isn't "light-skin black" vs. "dark-skin black", it's "mixed race" vs. "black".

There's something especially sad about POC who are racist to other POC

Black people to Asian people. Asian people to Black people

Colorism but yea it's sad

That's colorism sweetie.

Blame the Caucasian's and their eurocentric models

Which is sad... as that in no way should discredit them from identifying with anything they've inherited.

I wish people were more receptive to that idea... as it'd make mixed race people more comfortable in owning and being proud of their dual (or even multiple) ethnic identities they are

Sad.

Preconception? Yes. But racism is configured by a historical heritage where one race pretended to be superior to another. So technically a black person can't be racist to another. It's just a reflection of others arguments.

I'm not saying it's okay to act like that AT ALL, and it's definitely a problem of segregation inside a community that already suffers so much for the absence of media and political representation, but it's just something I learned recently and I wanted to share.

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Lightskin people bullying darkskin people for their skin colour is racism and especially disgusting because to the racist white man we're the same.

It's colorism, not racism.

yep

*colourism

down south, it's really bad down here but its whatever.

No one on earth is 100% black and just because you are light skinned doesn't mean you are mixed race lol I have lots of non-biracial relatives who are extremely light skinned. If you look at people from Ethiopia you'll realize that light skinned black people have always existed.

The light skin version dark skin thing is just the result of racism black people have faced since the beginning of time. Although I must admit it isn't as big of a problem as it used to be.

i wrote a real reply to this but honestly this post is such a mess that I won't even bother

babes, no-one is fully anything. humans are way too horny for someone to be fully anything.

Aren't you a white (in denial gay? what would you know about colorism in our communities