We were shocked by the comments made by a suspected internet troll pretending to be a “Dark skin activist” named Rashida Strober when she suggested that rapper Kendrick Lamar was being hypocritical because of his engagement to his high school sweetheart, who happens to be a lighter skinned Black woman who has obviously been by his side before the fame.
Although this story may appear to many as being tabloid-like in nature, there is a much deeper issue that we can take away from this situation: colorism, and its debilitating effect on the Melanoid populace in America. This is a sickening phenomenon that has penetrated all aspects of Black life, from the sets of the rap videos, to the high rise offices of Corporate America. The belief that a Black man or woman isn’t “Black enough” because they choose to marry to (or are) light skinned Brothers and/or Sisters speaks to the outlandish narrative of “keeping it real”, or not being a “sellout”.
African people throughout the diaspora are no monolithic group.We come in all shapes, sizes, personalities….and skin tones. After all, if there were no Black giants such as Huey Newton, Malcolm X, and Dr. Claud Anderson (all light skinned Black men themselves), how much differently would our impact on history have been shaped?
by B. Clark
The whole light skin dark skin is none other than an offshoot of racism white supremacy…instead of championing Kendrick’s woman who has been down for her man helping him build and being there for him unfortunately here comes a sister trashing him over her insecurities..very very sad…
As a dark skin woman I don’t agree at all with that woman but this is on of the outcomes that happens in our day to day lives because generally lighter skin has meant prettier,sexier, and more pursued. I do not know how we can heal but that does need to be done. I can relate to feeling less than compared to lighter skin black woman growing up one thing that helped was I have family and lived with light skin family members and they always told me how pretty I was but once I left my house there was not one thing in society or the world that made me feel beautiful, I use to wish I at least had my cousins complexion and she was only paper bag brown. I say all that to say this, there is an issue with darker girls not being viewed as attractive by ourselves generally but never will I discard my brother for choosing another black woman light skin or not!
@Jo… I agree with you completely. I think we (as a collective) have to admit the subconscious self hate that we project on our people and ourselves in our own community.
As a child attending middle school in the late 80’s and early 90’s I remember our own people constantly calling my darker complexion classmates black and ugly. Most (but not all) of the popular girls were brown or light brown. A lot of girls at that time would say things like, “I wanna marry him (a light skin or hispanic dude) so our babies can have good hair.” Names like tar baby and African booty scratcher was names regularly used against each other to distant ourselves from embracing being straight up black.
Even though my family members are of all shades that didn’t stop some of them from adopting those same self-hating habits. As a child it wasn’t that obvious but looking back at it now and reading your post I can understand why some dark skin people have a skin complex.
i AGREE WITH YOU AND JO. I thought this article failed to cover both sides of the issue and came across as bias. Didn’t like it.
Who is the darkskin woman who is mad because she should have married Kendrick Lamar
That’s just fake Black Chick Outrage because if you ask her to explain herself she will change the subject or give you a galaxy far far away speech
I wish we could stop this way of thinking. So many of us don’t realize that we are doing what centuries of slavery couldn’t do. I love the melanoid rainbow.
At the end of the day we are all Melanoid, people of African descent. Don’t matter if you light, brown, or dark. I’m a light skin male and I think dark skin women are the most beautiful things ever made, but I still see all my sisters as the beautiful queens that they are. Shades of Melanoid is not the enemy white supremacy is.
Dark skinnd-ed; light skinnd-ed…Stop it!
Time to grow up; time to think long and hard about the origin of ‘dark/light’ skin description. Why in the hell we continue to be ‘lazy’ and unthoughtful? Why continue to feed the ignorance created from an “unsuspected’ low self esteem- a creation of hundreds of years of conditioning? Every time we say “dark skinned”; light skinned” we continue and promote the Racism/White Supremacy System the Dr. Welsing has so precisely named; and that our beloved Scholar Ancestors have so eloquently detailed. Young folk- study, read, research to find out how this very phenomenon has even come into existence. Then think deeply; think long and hard about how each of us can transform our own thinking, our own consciousness about what, when, where and how we will physically describe ourselves; and how we will allow others to physically describe us.
The time is Now…..
black is black regardless to the shade of your skin tone back in the day it was the one drop rule.
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I’m late. BUT YOUR ARTICLE IS EXTREMELY ONE SIDED. THIS IS RIDICULOUS THAT YOU FRAMED COLORISM AS IF IT PRIMARILY COMES FROM DARKER SKIN PEOPLE TOWARDS LIGHTER SKIN BLACKS WHEN THERE IS A HISTORICAL RECORD OF LIGHTER SKIN BLACKS CREATING WHOLE SOCIETIES, CLUBS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND HAVE A HISTORY OF DISCRIMINATION IN THIS COUNTRY AGAINST DARK SKIN PEOPLE. FURTHERMORE, BLACK CULTURE HAS A SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH BEING ANTI-BLACK AND ANTI-DARK SKIN. IT’S A CULTURAL DYNAMIC THAT PROMOTES THAT LIGHT OR WHITE IS BETTER AND BLACK AND DARK IS BAD. This is the environmental context that RASHIDA STROBER WAS PRODUCED. And the way you spin this and take it out of that ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT with our PROBLEM WITH DARK SKIN AND BLACKNESS IN OUR COMMUNITY AS A CULTURAL NORM IS SICKENING AND RIDICULOUS. Your article was BIAS AND INTELLECTUALLY DISHONEST.