LRT listen no one asks "how are you black & lightskinned?" LMAO. What people DO ask is "what are you mixed with?" "are you hispanic?" or straight up just say "you're not black." it's annoying and invasive for people to walk up to you to ask your ethnicity and bloodline in detail

I don't consider it oppression unless a white person does it, but i think people's obsession/curiosity with mixed-ness / ethnically ambiguous folks contributes to this... phenomenon

Like I get it. Complete strangers have walked up to me and asked me this through out my whole life. But I feel like it's more important to address how different attitudes about mixed ppl and appearance contribute to colorism towards dark skinned people

What I'm saying is - because I know how I worded this is confusing - is that many people generally want to deny blackness - whether it's their own or others. Many times they want to calculate the amount of blackness in people they may find Attractive and it's weird & racist.

"I'm not black, I'm mixed." "I'm black, but I'm lightskinned." Attitudes like this that lightskinned / mixed folks have contributed to colorism AND the otherness of mixed folks. You can't want to deny your blackness and get offended when people say you're not black.

It all comes down to the awful, racist, colorist belief that the less black you look or the less black you are, the more attractive you are. We need to call out these attitudes(this thread got longer than I wanted but ADHD makes it difficult to word things sometimes )