y’all be calling any niggas light skin bro y’all need to go outside

That's not the point I was trying to make.

Y'all took the Tyrese thing and ran with it, granted I was exaggerating to prove a point. My main point is that:

In Hollywood 90% of the time dark skin = bad. Lightskin = good. If you want a love interest, they gotta almost always be lightskin. You want some s***appeal, light skinned.

I didn't sit down and consider that yes, lightskin niggas get s*** on for being perceived as feminine and therefore aren't getting lead cast a lot. I agree with that because if I think back, it's always been that way with a few examples.

Depends on where u grew up

Literally everybody around me was kevin garnett type black when I was little so people who looked like will smith were lightskin to me

This is how it is irl. Dark skin men are seen as threatening which in the real world translates to “he’s scary” but in a fantastical medium like film translates to “he’s sexy and dangerous”. Hence darker skin men are more desirable as leads in film. Both come from a harmful place

But the thread got outta whack and some perceived this fact to be a “well dark skin men DO get benefits” claim

Dead serious. We really got a argument about MBJ in here, lol.

This may not have been a helpful discussion

s***appeal for WOMEN
not men

In the 60s and 70s they def went against colorism and other by- products of white supremacy

They never said let's put this on the back burner and wait for racism to be solved then we shall attack it's nasty offshoots

Why tf did they start wearing afros : cuz they were black and proud
U can't be proud to be black and look at a subsection of black people as lesser than or not care that they face a harsher reality (statistically proven) in school, court and other aspects of life

We just have more words to express these different issues nowadays but it's not splitting apart the cause, au contraire

The fact u think that's divisive behavior says more about u then those who want to fight white supremacy fr

Ps: whilst typing this I realized ur nikedon? Smh

It's never a helpful discussion

Same thing when we talk about black men vs black women, black LGBT vs black straights, etc.

All stupid conversations that should never be had

So then why not try and make it helpful by not arguing about how dark you gotta be to be light skin or how colorism doesn't exist within the black community

colorism resources, read up:
dropbox.com/sh/xrag0cvacg486y1/AAA0h9z3icNZ2YnECJhtNduua?dl=0

I partly agree, while colorism exists in movies (especially in foreign ones, i.e Africa) their are still movies out the roles are reserved where a dark skinned black man is portrayed in a better light.

It's very relative
Compared to the whites and darker brothers, he was lightskin yeah
Even on his show he was closer to uncle Phil than aunt Viv (dark skinned aunt Viv lol )

they completely botched the casting
it could have been great but it felt like they didn’t consider the context(?) or like racial dynamics for the characters they racebent
which led to some uncomfortable scenes/issues

Lol you just have to accept that some don’t want to be educated or informed enough to discuss

"Dark skins have Tyrese. That's it."
Lie

Ehh colorism is a topic to be had but this thread never had a chance cause OP based it off a personal idea that wasn’t factual

So it sent the thread in a tizzy

And if we call him out on that lie then we just picking exceptions to the rule or “ they old “

“ tyrese only person dark skin niggas have “

Made me think op light skin

Colorists turned against black people first

They either gotta educate themselves or accept to not be accepted by those who don't hate themselves or our other darker brothers/sisters out there

I think that's maybe what y'all don't get..... Being colorist shouldn't be normal anywhere met alone black spaces

For a black person to be colorist u have to go through some grand brainwashing-why wouldn't they want to get rid of that mindset? Why should we accept it?

Cuz black people don't be going to space lol

I’m attracted to all women and don’t view anyone as lesser based on being light . I’m darkskin and as your screenshot showed I’ve heard “ we can’t even see him in the photo “ by friends of all races

I'm dark as hell and half Nigerian, that's why colorism and intra racial hate bothers me. I got a lot of s*** growing up about my background, hair, lips etc.

It's all casually thrown around and ignored.

This is especially an issue among black women. Any black woman perceived as attractive has to be light skin. Almost always.