Chatsy's really trying to take it to @jbouie, as if he has the knowledge to do so.

Chat can't even tell a straight story about whether or not he had an argument with some 'friend' about Bari Weiss. https://twitter.com/thomaschattwill/status/1293550114905227266

As Bouie notes, Walter White was almost lynched once, and he was a target throughout his entire career.

Also: If skin color was the only thing that defined being Black, why did White passers like Anatole Broyard fear being discovered? @thomaschattwill @jbouie

This, by the way, gets to my earlier points about how colorism is merely a tool to distract Black people about the reality of White Supremacy.

You could be as light as the paper in the printer - and you still end up being limited by the systematic racism of this framework.

By the way: I can understand why Steven White is disappointed by how Walter White's name came up on the Twitterweb. https://twitter.com/notstevenwhite/status/1293584430091710465

Back to the point: Colorism is an issue. It is used as a component in White Supremacy as a tool for divide-and-conquer. It is how some Black people try to elevate themselves over others in a White Supremacist framework. It is how earlier generations tried to pass for White.

But ultimately, it is still a distraction. Because the reality is that Black people aren't oppressed because of their appearance. They are oppressed because they are the descendants of Africans who were never supposed to walk free in the United States of America.

Kamala Harris isn't supposed to be a senator. Thomas Chatterton Williams isn't supposed to be (barely) a writer. Uche Blackstock, Karen Attiah, Sherilyn Ifill and Kristen Clark aren't supposed to be accomplished women.

None of us in the Diaspora are supposed to be anything.

Because back in 1619, White folks decided that they wanted a servitude class, one they could exploit by any means in order to address their own collective inferiority.

Once you realize those were the sociopolitical goals of enslaving Black people, everything else becomes clear.