“The report noted that nearly 80 % of the Black female characters were of light/medium skin tone, with only 19 % of Black leading ladies in the past decade being dark-skinned”. What this piece fails to acknowledge is that the majority within that 80% are biracial/mixed race. https://twitter.com/atlblackstar/status/1369735983269371908

“It was also discovered that more than half of the leading Black ladies in popular films from the past ten years had had a hairstyle that fit “European standards of beauty as opposed to natural Black hairstyles”. This helps drive my point home even more.

This is study conducted in the U.S but the point remains: Colorism, featurism & texturism affect the representation of black women in the media. These issues are especially exacerbated in a country like America where most people intellectualize & strongly abide by the racist ODR.

I don’t want to sound like a broken record and reiterate what I’ve always said on here for years. We see the problem. We’ve known about it. But only a few (mostly dark skinned black women) have been raising the alarm on this while others simply *passively* acknowledge it. Sad.

*muted*.