Hold up, that girl Diane caracter is a Hollywood producer?

Dyamanti22 Yeah. She has a movie coming out called “Little”

Christine Davis she literally makes my day just the best

Oh shit for real?? Right on!!

Marsai is the product having the kind of parents who chose to provide HOME SCHOOLING as a building block. this style of formal education has allowed Marsai to get acquainted and secure with herself in how and what she learns rather than being mired in and distracted by forced conformity, calamitous benign neglect, cognitive dissonance, etc. there's very little legitimate salubrious diversity in the american education system, especially for children of colour. ijs

I would of done the same thing too.

Almost as bad as "you have such a pretty face for a fat girl". Just tell someone they're pretty or gorgeous and leave it at that

@@jessicavictoriacarrillo7254 "Almost as bad" Fat white girls can lose weight. We can't change our skin.

@@witchplease9695 that's why it's ALMOST as bad..

Yeah. But I think the writer was trying to imply what some dark skin people hear. Growing up I heard that a lot in school by other black kids. In high school they said my boyfriend and I looked like a good couple because we were both dark skin. As an adult I've heard this from guys as well..."I usually date light skin women but you're pretty for a dark skin woman." Sadly, it's something that I've heard multiple times.

I would say ESPECIALLY in the black community. That's where I have experienced it the most.

Even in India

@@Powerduo88 yes, and especially within families. It's pathetic and sad.

Take back your mind: 1. Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery - Na'im Akbar 2. Mind Control 101 - Dantalion Jones 3. Melanin (A Key To Freedom) - Richard King 4. Blacked Out Through Whitewash - SUZAR

@@Powerduo88 Thank you! I completely agree. It was so normal to hear about it growing up.

SARA Thanks😘

Yea it did. I hated when people would say that IGNORANT mess.

I GOT WITH AN AFRICAN TO GET A DARK SKIN BABY THAT SMOOTH SHINY BLACK SKIN I WANTED MY DAUGHTER TO HAVE IT. When we watched this episode together I said do u suffer from that she said no cause she light skinned conpared to her african side she laughed and then said plus you tell me all the time you wanted a chocolate baby and tell me how perfect my skin all my life all u do is brag about my dark skin and being around the africans she never felt to dark I didn't realize how much I put in her I always liked chocolate girls it was these twins with perfect skin and eyelashes in 3rd grade all the way up to highschool it was so black and shiny and i wanted it i used to sit in the sun and put on cocoa butter but you wanna know why i wanted to be dark cause where i grew up LIGHT SKINNED GIRLS GOT TEASED they got they hair cut off they got beat up So sad but true i was scared to get to light but now i just embrace my brown skin

Kali Love I totally agree with you

Just say so are you, or if it’s a light skin say ur pretty for a light skin .

It's called ACTING. She is getting paid to act harsh.

loretta young she’s talking about Diane the character not Marsai the actress

@@lorettayoung3088 Exactly.

I thought she got it from her mean-ass grandma. I love them both, though.

always has to be that one "they're just acting" comment

t v Nope. Sorry. Its ALL RACES..All cultures. Everywhere. asians, east indians, Africans, dominican rep, latinx, europeans, americans, everyfuckingbody.. The disdain for darker skin (on women and girls in particular) is a worldwide pandemic my friend.

@Faffy Sorry that you suffered through those comments. Did you tell your mom how that made you feel?

@Faffy 😳🥺 I'm sorry but your mom is so wrong! I hope you love yourself and your skin tone.

@Faffy 😥 I can't imagine how that would have made you feel.

Truth. Colorism occurs in ones own race more often then not.

I’m so sorry you had to go thru that. 😢

Is that why you decided to have a mixed race, lighter tone baby?

@@smilealwaysnatasha3423 I was just about to say that. Sounds like she had some deep self-hate issues. Like when she realized she can't be white, she went after a white guy and had a mixed child. Same thing happened to my co worker. She said she grew up in a white neighborhood and got bullied and made fun of by whites. But ironically... she prefers white men and went and found a white husband. Very odd, right? You would think the opposite. But yea... they dont see the self-hate, most of us don't unfortunately.. Therapy is what is needed.

OMG.....that just broke my heart.....

What did they do to my comment- its so hacked up.....

Me too😢

Me too!! I was her at that age too

*sigh* It took a lot of years to unpick all the bullshit people on me because I was darker. Just trying to blend in with neutral natural colours, now you can’t keep me away from bright colours

I would too. I have high functioning autism and it makes me feel different and different is a good thing. It is sad she said she didn't want to be different.

No pity. Teach her the truth about her beautiful complexion

DRO NOYB - YES! so glad u said that. Been telling people this for years about the Latino community

DRO NOYB - Been to Mexico, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Venezuela ( before the empty shelves and economic downfall) and its horrible the way they treat dark skinned and indigenous peoples!! I actually witnessed a woman tell an indigenous woman to sit in the back of the bus. True story unfortunately.

@@deenabee6279 just stating the facts. I'm Hispanic but darker complected than the average. I see it quite a bit.

@@deenabee6279 I've been to several South American countries as well and trust me, I know how you feel. I felt very uncomfortable with the looks I got in some places. Mixed race couples aren't looked too highly upon either.

@Bean That's what makes the conversation divisive. One side will always claim the other is privileged. It's a touchy subject.

I dont care how dark or pale anyone is. A sexy shade of red looks good on EVERYONE.

faith peter that’s all I wear ❤️😍🥰💄

It depends on the shade and the actual person. Ashy lipsticks look weird on me and I like a darker red,

@@jasminepearls1047 That is true, but people are out here telling black people that they can't wear red lipstick in general. I sympathize with this clip because I was told plenty of times that I could not wear red lipstick. Now that I have tried it is my favorite lip color, the brighter the better. :)

Exactly!!! I wear red lipstick all the time and get compliments.

EXACTLY!

Dark skin with red lipstick is beautiful

Look at Lupita, she is very beautiful.

THANK YOU!

Racquelle Char fuck them sis. You are gorgeous

Exactly like the bright pinks and yellows. That's when I get the most compliments. It's crazy

@@keyannaharllee6725 thank you

facts

Well, there is truth to that. Mostly what they're talking about is skin tone and whether or not you're warm or cool. If you have yellow or blue undertone. There are some colors you should flat out not wear. They drown you out.

As a lightskin teenager, I’m really disappointed and disgusted with how you family would called you blackie. Black woman is all shades of beautiful and I’m sad that even our black culture is tearing and seperating all of us apart. We are all one and should stick together as such. We have so much variety of shades and they are all poppin, periodT!

I also hate how black men degrades darker skin tones and praises lighter and whiter skin tones. Don’t get me wrong, preferences are okay but not in a way where we degrade and put down other races because they aren’t our type. Even African American women put darker complexions down even though this is a sisterhood. We are all in this together but make other women or men want to bleach their skins to get approval and accepted? LaND oF ThE FreE my butt.....

Cassidy Samantha I was called “blackie” too😭

I'm glad that moment happened with ur mom that u felt like someone understood ur pain, I wish I cud hav that with my parents. I am also that sibling, and I understand how family can be harsh. ❤ glad you grew from it. Honestly feel hurt what u went through.

Cassidy Samantha same I'm the darkest in my family

I came here to say the same thing! My daughter is 10 also and this episode hit home because her complexion is darker than the rest of her siblings and my husband and I... but to see her so naturally love her skin makes me happy

You guys must be doing a wonderful job making them feel beautiful.

TheSuperNats and crazii_creole what did you guys do to achieve that. I have a young girl that dislikes her color.

@@wambuikomu oh no😔 honestly, it took a little bit (and this was a few years ago) where there was a video they gave a white doll and a black doll to kids as an experiment, and then asked questions like "which one is good? pretty? nice? Which one is mean? Bad? Ugly?".... pretty much all of them chose the white doll for all the good traits and the black doll for the bad traits, even some of the black kids. My daughter started crying and said "nobody thinks we're beautiful and nobody thinks we're good enough" and it broke my heart. So since she was into princesses, I showed her video after video of successful and beautiful women through the years.... royalty, movie stars, etc. She's also a science buff so when I explained melanin to her, and that its the reason we often look younger and more beautiful as we age, and that the fact that she has more of it means that she'll be beautiful for longer lol she thought that was cool. We also talked about how people use the idea of colorism only because they want to feel superior to others, even when they're not. There is also a cute book to help reinforce and encourage our girls called "dark skin in the mirror".

One thing I will say is if family or anyone she loves ever says anything about her skin that she takes in a negative way even if it's a joke, that can make her not like it cause kids are smart and know the real meaning, if you have anyone in your family that does that you might want to check them, I've noticed older people are worse with it. If they ever hear someone complain about their color that will make them think it's something wrong with theirs too. They say when you don't like something about yourself and a kid heard it they take on your problems, I was trying to lose weight and complaining about my stomach and next I knew my little girl thought she should too so never complain about physical looks, not saying that you do though.When she was little I would compliment everything including her skin color, and when we would see someone like angela bassett, lupita nyongo or gabrielle union on tv I would say yall have the same beautiful skin color, there is also this youtuber being neicey that has a very similar color to her and she always talks about she loves her skin and she does natural hair videos. Last summer she took swim classes and got very dark and one person in the store said something like you must be in the sun a lot looks like youve gotten a tan because you could see the swimsuit marks on her arm, and she looked at the lady and said thanks cause she was loving someone noticed. I think if you love it she will too my family always tells her how flawless smooth and beautiful her skin is because it really is it like glows. The good thing is she's young so there is time to see how beautiful she is and the fact that you even asked shows that your a good mom, I know that was really long but I hope it helps.

I hate that quantifier "for a" so much! It's as bad as "no offense, but".

Omg yess !!!

She just produced a movie too. It's called "Little"

What’s the episode called !!

Yes!

@@micahwade9088 black like us

Facts!!

I’m not all that light but admittedly I’ve never had a problem finding my shade, maybe that’s my privilege?

jpowers55 No

@@jovanym2931 duh you have a spiderman pfp you can't read yet😍

@@bewchie7431 are you dumb ? or what this is generic asf

Wow..she needed to tune in to this episode

Carly Schindler make her watch this.

Carly Schindler - similar thing happened to me and I was super shocked. But it was a latino family. Me and my husband were living on a mitary base and our neighbors were Puerto Rican. They were both light/white looking. But their kids were dark. I was talking to the mom and she said to me after I met her daughter (yes she said this to a black person!!) "She's almost the perfect daughter - except she's so dark..what a shame" WHO SAYS THAT?!?!? Her daughter was beautiful, excellent student, well mannered. She was perfect just as she was, as God made her -Period. If her daughter was so flawed bc of her darker latina complexion then what was I as her black neighbor - the loch ness monster? I still can't believe that till this day.

💔

@@deenabee6279 You should have said something after your shock. I'm learning to say stuff in the moment to people who say or do things I don't like. At least they are going to be in disbelief and not just you.

entertainmentstarz1 colorism is is every non-white ethnicity. Colonialism created the image that whiter is better.

@@nanaesio.nyarkoh2858 actually Asian colorism has nothing to do with colonialism.

I'm happy the new generation Asians are becoming more vocal on issues, especially colorism. The white worship I see from Asians saddens me. I saw a beautiful Asian girl getting rid of her nice eye folds to look more "Western". If they are more vocal for rights and representation, maybe they can find the beauty in Asian features.

I also do see some Asians, but mainly some Asian girls do that to their eyes and dye their hair blonde or light brown. I don't know...maybe they don't find themselves beautiful or Asian people aren't attractive? I do hear and experience that Asians, especially Asian guys aren't attractive. I guess that's why some Asians change their Asian features to look more Western. It's kinda sad to see that.

@@entertainmentstarz1 most non-whites have bad PR. Whites set the standards because they pillaged and conquered the world. If Asians did the same, everyone would try to look Asian. If Africans conquered, the world would try to look African. We all just need to keep that in mind that there is beauty in every group, even if it's not in media. Asian men like black women suffer from bad PR. It wasn't until I went to college that I found out most Asian men aren't nerdy, awkward, and effeminate. I met some really attractive and outgoing Asian men! I wish white media could show images like that more often. Just like the image of black women as loud, ghetto, mean, promiscuous etc; is not representative of most black women I knew, yet people tend to assume I'm that way until they get to know me. Media powerful and can affect people's perception of you and control opportunities for jobs, dating etc;. That's why every group must fight for positive representation.

byron Rideaux Diane never cries.

@@PoshSpice-89 Diane did cry in the penultimate episode of the 4th season

byron Rideaux I thought I was gonna cry 😩

Diane is cold and don't cry. The family is afraid of her😂😂

i think they can probably pull it off better i love dark rich tones on my nails and lips i feel like its something woman of darker complextion have always been told and its a lie.....red is for everyone!!!

Oh btw light skined Latina just myoption not trying to speak for nobody

I dont get why too !! For me Red Lipstivk suits every skin color/tone from the palest to the darkest 🌸

Meh, red is such a hard color to pull off, especially when you're either really dark or really pale. You're supposed to wear subdued colors, because they match better. I have really pale skin, and bright red looks awful on me.

@@ajallen9674 Red looks good on everyone

Right 😂

MAIT Mait I’m sorry sorry you had to experience that. Iv never experienced colorism (and never really will) but I really want you to know how beautiful dark skin is regardless of what anyone else has to say about that. It’s a shame our society works this way. Sending you peace and love ❤️

Julie Perez in fact it is a shame. But I’ve learned to live with it and now I don’t feel sad anymore. Thank you for your support 💛☺️ The world needs more humans like you !

Your friends lied and were brainwashed by tv.

MAIT Mait same I'm darker than my half sister and she keeps on making fun of me for it.

Story of my life

@ais y it's episode 10 of season 5. It's titled, Black Like Us.

How are you even in this country? trump didn't build that wall yet?

David Lee that was uncalled for

@@glamour101girl8 It's comment history speaks for itself.

What's it called

@@lauren-nj4pl Black Like Us

Thx

@@jordanwright2072 is it the newest one

@@lauren-nj4pl No problem

While I understand why you say this, I don’t want them to do that with diane’s character. That’s what I love about her character. It makes her so funny and interesting. She has me cracking up. The episode when she got her period was hilarious 😂. However I have enough common sense to know that this isn’t a default character trait of dark skin people. If anything I think they dialed down the character traits over the seasons. But I understand why you say that though.

I don’t see it that way. I just figured Diane was practicing to be a really smooth business owner some day! She’s got Grandma Ruby’s cold hearted ways...I always saw her as smart!!! I think she’s funny because she messes with people’s heads like Damien from the “Omen.”

And I’m saying this as a brown skinned female whose sisters are all fair. I don’t see it that way! Diane has got serious skills and she’s a BOSS already!!

Tu Bailey exactly. That’s what makes her character the best and hilarious.

They made Zoey an annoying b***h. Haha

Yup. Darker man with lighter woman.

Exactly. Human beings are funny

Ell Cally The darkest main character, Diane, is aggressive and evil. The lightest, junior, is soft, nerdy, less masculine. The father figure is a joke and buffoon with emotional instability because of an absent father. The list goes on. This show is a joke.

Shea Butter Beauty aggressive? Evil? You’re really using those descriptors about a little girl? Maybe that’s your own bias doing the talking.

I confess, I was thinking that myself.

Mz Chee your still dark girl but I guess you mean chocolate

You’re still really dark though, unless you mean lupitas complexion

U are beautiful just the way u are and so are all skin colours, beauty is beauty, it should not be defined by skin colour.

@@fijitearss nahh she's brown skin lol

She is a teen. She is not grown up. I don't see a logical reason for people wanting girls to be so much older than they are. She will be an adult soon enough. She is still a teen, so just relax.

(I know im 4 year late) but please dont take any serious info from this show, yes they have the general idea right, but you have to understand that this is entertainment and halfway true(black-ISH) and the writer and creator of this show is colorist himself so this episode only surface level, pls do actual research

People r different at perceiving skin tones, I'm also mid-brown skinned. Sum ppl c me as lighter skin. Sum think I have darker skin. My cuz is also quite a lot darker than me too, she said I'm dark. I'm lighter than my nephew, he thinks I'm dark too whereas other ppl have a different opinion about my skin. Colourism is defo an issue for all shades! I can't b brown I'm either 1 or the other to ppl

Which episode is it

Aaah. Someone else who noticed. Like marsai ain’t that dark.. just darker than the people in that show

So whT are caramel people then ??🤔

@@memej1904 they're literally all brown, just different shades. "brown skin" is just a dumb term in the context it's used.

I don’t see any problem with the term “brown skin” if we agree that blacks can come in various shades then you agree that not everyone is just light or dark, some people are in between and that’s okay. It doesn’t mean they’re tryna day they are better than dark skins, they just aren’t considered dark. Yes, there are brown skins who are on the darker end of the spectrum but that is all apart of coming in various shades.

@@taiosmalls then why are caramel girls light skin

Great episode