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Breya M. Johnson
TheBlackLayers
Almost every time i tell a young darkskin black girl “you’re so pretty” they look up at me and say “i am?” These girls go years and years without ever
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♚ King Hale
HaleTheeKing
Everytime conversations on colorism come up, I think about when my daddy connected colorism and sexual assault/coercion together to discuss with me when I was in middle school. One day
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Tara Moses™
TaraTomahawk
Light skinned does not automatically equal white passing. White passing is white skin, Euro features, being viewed (and treated) by society as white (before they know your ethnicity). Being WP
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Ernest Owens
MrErnestOwens
REAL TALK: Telling a dark-skinned person that "Blackness is not a monolith" in conversations about colorism, only perpetuates the problem. Time and time again, I find the conversations and concerns
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king
_blvck_mind
What do yall think? Colorism tweets were very prevalent back then and I've seen multiple threads rightfully criticizing black men on colorism starting from old twitter when it was the
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Celia M. Ayala Lugo🇵🇷
rizospoeticos
The following is a very necessary thread pertaining to Afrodescendencia y Negritud in Puerto Rico: While it is important to recognize the vast presence of racism and colorism in the
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The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
IBJIYONGI
What if ... instead of questioning Rashida’s Blackness and also taking a big heavy dip into white supremacist race science lingo like “phenotype” ... we talked about how Kenya Barris
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JW simp⁷
eternalvuu
Im sorry. Some of us asians do not condone this type of behavior. Also @ the asian community, we really need to discuss the internal racism that exist. This is
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Theatre Bae 🎭💦
NylaTheMusical
Can we get a thread of fine Black LGBTQIA+ folx? Drop a pic and ya pronouns. This shouldn’t need to be said, but just in case: No colorism (it does
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alex
KingstonJancro
Hate how we talk about colorism as the less violent cousin to racism. Especially in Jamaica. Colorism does not just order the politics of desirability. It affects everything including who
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I Deactivate Coon Chips
GODIVA_CHOCLAT
Black women really be colorist towards light skin men. Let’s discuss. Y’all listen I thought it was only on social media too but this past weekend I was surround by
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Sade Sellers
IAMSadeSellers
Yes, we’re all talking about Thandie Newton’s Tom Cruise story BUT what really stuck out to me was this Charlie’s Angels, Amy Pascal story. https://twitter.com/NYMag/status/1280473776233250820 Or this little nugget on
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Opinionated 👑
Opinionat33d
Regarding the lightskin vs Darkskin debate on the tl: There is no doubt that dark skinned Ethiopians have been called names, ignored in media and degraded. Our culture doesn’t celebrate
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Confetti 🎉
MiladyConfetti
Good morning And yes this is the same account upon realizing who they follow. But who cares about that. Let’s open up a conversation about colorism, preferences, misogyny and patriarchy:)
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GAP$HAWTY🪐
themikalaleeann
as a lightskin woman raised by my darkskin mother and brownskin siblings. i could never let colorism go unchecked, bitch are you dumb? a lot lightskin/mixed women are so bold
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The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
IBJIYONGI
Folks have real fantasies about white passing to the point of being convinced, based on no experience of their own, that a bunch of us can pass when we cannot.
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