Fuck it, I’m in a bitchy mood so here we go:

Can we please talk about the issue with dark skinned poc shitting on light skin poc all the time? Cause as a light skin girl, I’ve always seen dark skinned poc belittling us and it fucking sucks.

I don’t understand why it’s 100% okay to belittle and mock light skin poc but it’s not okay when it comes to dark skin poc. It’s basic racism within the black community and I’m getting fed up with it

Maybe I’m just being soft but I’ve grown up hating the way I looked because I wasn’t dark enough for other black folk to like or accept me in the community but I still had to deal with racism all the time. Y’all know how badly it sucks to be rejected from your own community?

It’s like as a light skin girl: I’m not black enough to be accepted in my own community but I’m dark enough to deal with racist? It just makes me feel like I’m not worthy of anything unless I’m a dark skin girl or a white girl. I hate it so much and I’m tired of it.

I always see this shit too on twitter, insta, or whatever else; dark skin poc hating on light skins and being praised for it. Now I’m not trying to say ALL dark skin poc do this or that dark skins are somehow lesser because that’s not the case at all. I just think it’s fucked

**on an unrelated note; I referred to myself as a light skin girl towards the beginning of this thread cause I’m afab and wasn’t sure how else to put it. I still use they/them because I don’t feel comfortable with she/her. I felt like adding this just in case**