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[RekeRig]

Come to think of it, GODyana Ali spoke about her struggles within the community as well.
"Oh she's so dark! But she has good hair so its OK lolz"

I was wondering who she was talking about, I thought for sure it sounded like some mess a Jamaican would say
Black Americans don't talk exactly like that. now that you're saying this about Trinidad, it makes sense.
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this backhanded compliment he gave her when the interview started "wow is there a special technique to get ur hair like that? Lolz"

I've gotten that before too. "Ur gorgeous for a darker guy"

"I usually don't go for darker guys but wow".  wtf

[Marilyn]

Afro do you consider Nia Long darkskinned too? Serious question.

[Herb.]

VLAD is so shady.

I don't think he was shading her though really when he asked about her technique.
It was more so of asking her if she has any tips she'd like to offer. IMO.

A lot of people ask questions about hair which they use to comfortably transition into such a touchy conversation.
Like "what do you use in your hair"? etc. Some of it is shade/ignorant assumptions, but some people honestly want to know how another person maintains their hair when it looks healthy.

[Herb.]

Afro do you consider Nia Long darkskinned too? Serious question.

Yes.

[Sinpool]

 

[SUPREME]

I'm naturally really light but I remember being a bit darker as a kid from playing outside all the time and not liking it fjjj

!!! I didn't realize until I was ten or eleven that I would get darker during the summer and I would avoid the sun like the plague

There was a time I perched in the shade with the teachers

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I used to do that. But because I was a fag 

[AIDS!]

Some of the women in my family were bleachers, especially my aunts and cousins
Growing up and seeing them one Xmas dark and the next Xmas looking yellow used to freak me out, some used to look grey as fuck

[SUPREME]

My dad is Kenyan and my mom is a caramel mess

So my siblings and I all came out 3 different tones

Then my granny and aunts and uncles are different shades

So I always saw black people as a rainbow.

My parents never raised us with strange complexes. Thank god. Cause I know that can be a huge influence how people come up.

So, who I am, was never questioned (outside of my sexuality)

Thankfully. We all have insecurities but something like color or physical appearance being one has to be a killer. Because it ain't fcking changing.

[emzen]

I did use to have a little too much fun with the instagram filters but really, I'm fine with my color. Now that my face is smoother & the bags under my eyes are gone I'm good.

Now if only I had a butt.

[Sinpool]

I always found it odd how African Americans & Afro Latinos are classed as the self haters(which there are alot of due to us being minorities), but there's more of an abundance of bleaching in African & West Indian countries where blacks are the majority..

[SUPREME]

And fcking Asians

[SUPREME]

And they don't even use their own

At least most black people will date their own kind

[AIDS!]

Right, they're probably worse than Africans and African Americans
But the Nigerians, Congolese and Jamaicans take the cake when it comes to bleaching

[Herb.]

I can agree with being raised a certain way.

My grandmother raised me and my sisters to be unconcerned with material things, or petty things like skin tone, race, etc.
It was good and bad in some ways...Good because I wasn't raised by someone who was color struck, etc. bad because I think I had to find a lot of things on my own....Tense racial relations being one of them. I honestly was in a bubble which exclusively included a private school, church and home. Which is why it was so hard to understand why so many black people were so "angry" down here.

I had to find out many things on my own, even my own ethnic identity. Which didn't even matter to me much (again being raised the way I was), until other people started questioning it. Having a black female barber PULL at the roots of your head to examine them, only to confirm there wasn't a perm in my head, after I already told her there wasn't one. Then questioning my ethnic makeup. That's when I realized that my own people will single me out and make me feel uncomfortable, and insult me. Up until then, I never felt different. I just wasn't raised that way.

My grandmother didn't sit down and play with our hair as youngsters or talk about her ethnic makeup and ancestry. Nor did she teach us the difference between light, caramel, mocha light with two milks, espresso..and all that mess. She was mostly concerned with us doing well in school, being well groomed and getting our butts to Sunday School every weekend. And honestly, even though part of me wishes she had shared just a little more, or took the time to know a little more, I cannot blame her.

[FINE.]

I'm foreign