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 of dark-skinned Black people to be dismissed and treated as exclusionary towards light-skinned people.
Just like there is no reverse racism, there is no reverse colorism.
Just like there is no reverse racism, there is no reverse colorism.
We need to stop perpetuating this false equivalency that light skinned people feeling not "Black enough" is the same as dark-skinned people being socially, culturally, and institutionally marginalized by everyone.
While light-skinned people aren& #39;t exempt from experiencing racism, they are not completely exempt from the privileges afforded to them by society in not appearing dark-skinned.
This is a fact.
This is a fact.
Dark-skinned people are more likely to be imprisoned, suspended, not hired, and not lauded as attractive in mainstream media, and even their own community& #39;s spaces.
Let& #39;s stop acting like we didn& #39;t know this already.
Let& #39;s stop acting like we didn& #39;t know this already.