I’ve never been pregnant so I don’t think pregnancy exists🤷🏽‍♀️, that’s what y’all sound like 🙄

Why do people think that just because something hasn't happened to them it doesn't exist. It's like saying anything before you were born doesn't exist.

Colorism is so bad in South Asia. I have heard comments like “she’s so beautiful despite her dark skin” a synonym of beautiful is “fair”.

i’m a white woman so correct me if i’m wrong, but i also feel like hypersexualizing dark skin Black women has got to be some form of colorism as well. it’s like not allowing dark skin Black women to exist/have worth outside of their sex appeal, which is dehumanizing itself

I hate it when people say its a "preference" because how dose someone skin colour determine if you pretty or not.

It’s still so shocking to me that people don’t know what colorism is. IT IS SOOO GLOBAL. Anyway, love your scarf!

People denying colorism should try to be dark skinned in India, people are ruthless here ☹️

In Asia, people here aren't even low-key about their colorism 💀

Colorism is when every Hollywood roll that calls for a teenaged black female lead goes to actresses like Zendaya, Yara Shahidi and Amandla Stenberg. All amazing actresses, but they shouldn’t be the standard when it comes to black actresses. We don’t all look like them.

Colorism is EVERYWHERE. My mom's husband was loved less by his parents due to him being darker than his brothers,,, it even went to the extent where they didn't pay for his college while they paid for his brothers' colleges. It's wild

Imagine fighting colorism, racism and being a feminist it's a lot for black women

Let’s talk about how many of the dark skins that are seen as “beautiful” also happen to have more Eurocentric beauty features.

I’ll never forget I told my dad about colorism and he was like “You’re just making shit up”. Then we went to the African American museum in D.C. and there was a model brown paper bag demonstrating the test used to prevent Black people from voting. The label literally had the definition of colorism right above it. He was real silent when he put his hand against the bag and noticed that if these were the same times, he wouldn’t have the right to vote 😗....

As a Chinese woman - I know we have different experiences but I think that colourism 100% affects all coloured communities in the same ways. I felt ashamed that I happen to have a darker skin colour than the Chinese or Korean movies stars and models you see everywhere, and hate that I feel that way. Because I’ve never looked at someone else’s skin tone and though of it negatively, but I think it’s really scary to realize how much I’ve internalized that “dark” means “ugly” or “dirty” or “less than” and I’m so glad you made a video on it ^.^

Colorism is definitely real. My former “best friend” of 10 years who is half Jamaican/half Italian, had the nerve to tell me that I’d wouldn’t make any money because I’m black. Her older half brother (who’s the same colour as me) would call me “blackie” & make fun of the fact that my knuckles were darker than his.

When I was in the 4th grade, I had a crush on this guy. Long story short, he found out I liked him and said that he wasn't my type. The thing is, he (along with a lot of guys) liked this one girl; let's call her Julie. They were all fascinated with her because she was lightskin. And it wasn't just the little boys, it was the TEACHERS too! During the time of the school talent show, I along with some of my friends (who were all dark-skinned) decided to do a cheer act about how amazing our teachers were. We were practicing our routine when Julie walked in. She nicely asked if she could join, and being the nice people we were we let her join. Of course, we already did the routine and didn't really have a spot for her, so my other friend suggested that she do cartwheels in front of us. She agreed. So we practice a few times, and we decide that we should perform in front of the teachers monitoring us during reccess. They were on their phones, eating and talking with each other. My friend politely asked if we could perform something for them. My own math teacher said 'of course', and we get started. I was really excited to do something feminine like cheerleading, and was having a great time. We got to the part where my best friend and I were to lift up our other friends. It was at this time where I finally looked at the teachers. But they weren't looking at us. They were watching Julie, who was doing cartwheels in the front of us. At this point it's like we weren't even there anymore. It was "Awww!" and "look at her cheeks!" and "She's just the cutest." I didn't think that much of it then because I didn't know then. Julie ended up doing her own thing; and guess who got through the tryouts?? Throughout my 4th grade year it's Julie this Julie that. The boys talked about her, the teachers loved her. I have no hate to Julie; she's a great person. Very sweet. But there was an obvious bias towards her. Especially when it came to my teacher. I'll never forget when someone said that they like her because she's a girl. Because she's a girl. And she looks like a girl. And even though that sentence doesn't make sense, I still wanted to be like her because she was a standard. Like I said, I brushed it off because I just wanted to play on the monkey bars and have a good time. But while watching your video it finally clicked. She looked "like a girl" in the eyes of the guys because she was lighter than the rest of us. She was "pretty and cute" in the eyes of the teachers because she was light skin with straight hair. And the fact that we as kids go after that same idea shows that colorism in fact, does exist. Tee I love your videos. You have opened my eyes on many things and I hope you keep making more.💕

Kash Doll is very pretty but very ignorant. Pretty privilege is a real thing that compensates for being dark skinned to colorist people. I know for a fact she's heard "pretty for a dark skinned girl".

The way some people go above and beyond to deny colorism exists...I hate it here.I really do.

They pretend not to notice colorism or engage in it until they see a dark-skinned girl receive complements or opportunities in the media for her skin tone. Then they wonder aloud "what's so special about her skin" or my personal favorite "Why do the boys like you and you're so dark"? Also I have heard "why are there no light skinned-women in this music video"? (The lyrics of the music was 'in my life I've never seen melanin so dark'). Mind you these people have never asked why there are no dark-skinned women in any media and they often say its not colorism but a preference when the issue of colorism comes up.

As a dark skinned african man living in America, I appreciate your video. I have dealt with colorism all my life even back when I was in Africa. There are nasty slangs people use to refer to folks with dark skinned color as if they're less than being, but it wasn't nearly as bad as being dark in the U.S. I was mocked and made fun of by people that look like me, especially by African Americans who got off on calling me out in the hallways, lunch rooms, and class room, and it was ok since they were black too. It was especially painful since I still had an accent at the time and black Americans for some reason believed themselves to be more Superior than us. They broke me though.. I learned to hate myself and ended up in the hospital over a dozen times after having serious attempts, in one instance I swallowed 5 bottles of sleeping pills so the pain and I would forever go away. Thankfully, my family intervened and I was sent to a long term residential therapy. There's a lot of hate in this world and it can come from anyone, noone gets a pass because they are some type of way.

I'm glad you brought up colorism in India cuz it is one of the worst and is so ingrained into society that people don't even bat an eye at it. Once my cousin even told me that she wouldn't marry a dark-skinned man because she wanted lighter-skinned children. 🙃And I'm dark-skinned

Excellent as always ❤️

You cannot convince me that had Lupita been a light-skinned black woman with more relaxed curls, she would not be ruling Hollywood. The woman is so beautiful and talented and she's criminally under-utilized

Seeing Lupita seriously takes my breath away 😍 she’s so incredible.

As a dark skinned teen who always was the butt of the joke whenever the lights were turned off in class and forced herself to stay inside during the summer in fear of getting called "burnt" by lighter skinned boys in my class, I get so frustrated when people tell me I'm "jealous" of light skinned people. I love my dark chocolate Nigerian skin now, and I will still talk about colorism. It's beyond me, it's about the next generation not having to go through what I have

in my household we talk about a live action princess and the frog and everyone think zendaya would be amazing and nothing against her. she’s amazing and love her so much but let’s be honest. ZENDAYA LOOKS NOTHING LIKE TIANA. we as a community have began to value lighter skinned woman for roles instead of woman of a darker skin.

I'm Indian and I really appreciate that you mentioned the problem with popular Indian celebrities. In Bollywood or Tollywood, the actresses are ALWAYS light skinned. Even though I'm light skinned myself, it always pissed me off that I never saw realistic looking Indians on TV. Whenever I went to India, (doesn't matter if its north or south) I'd always see lots of dark skinned people, but where were they on TV? Where was the accurate representation of our own people?

The colourism issue is horrible in the Bahamas too 🤦🏿‍♀️

I'm Sri Lankan and light skinned, and I have such a distinct memory of being a 7 year old and playing pretend with my other Sri Lankan friends. My friend Nat was by far the darkest skinned among us, and that day we were pretending to be the Spice Girls. She wanted to be Baby Spice. Her personality suited that persona perfectly, and it made so much sense that she was drawn to that member of the Spice Girls. I remember her disappearing into her house and coming back out wearing a pale bubblegum pink ensemble of a halter top and layered mini skirt and her hair in pigtails to mimic that style. Everyone laughed. My family, her family, her older sister and even myself. We all thought it was ridiculous that she thought she could pull off that colour with her skin tone. When I hear people denying colourism and it's impact on dark skinned people, I always remember the broken look on her face, I get chills and feel that shame. Somehow she forgave me, but we need to keep insisting on this issue and speaking on it. The way Sri Lankans turn on each other this way is sickening.

I love that I'm seeing more and more people talk about colorism, and I hate that so many feel the need to deny its existence. I'm relatively lightskinned, and even before I'd ever heard the word colorism, before I was even out of middle school, I was able to observe that racist people found me more palatable than other black people. I was able to observe that I was receiving preferential treatment compared to darkskinned peers when I was *twelve* . I was also on the receiving end of a great deal of racism, but colorism is very real.

I live in the south where I’m told “you’re the first black girl I was ever attracted to.” “There aren’t very many beautiful dark skin girls these days.” “Black women are always angry.” “You’re pretty for a darkskin.” And some light skin black girllllll got mad at me because I didn’t say thank you!! 😂 I’m not saying thank you when the compliment would’ve been acceptable if you said I was pretty period.

The issue with colorism isn’t even that simple (if that could be called simple, which it hella can’t). Dark skin has long been associated with classism. Working class people vs the elites. The working class were out in the sun and the elites didn’t have to work so they were able to hide inside and stay pale. It’s still that way in countries of POC like India and (no idea when it started) was a problem hundreds of years ago in Europe and England. The paler you were/are the wealthier you were. The darker your skin, the lower on the social scale. This is without even factoring in the issue of race. (ie: white Europeans looking down on the darker serfs etc) This absolutely does not negate any of the racial issues attached to colorism then or now. It just adds to the overall assumption of a person with darker skin being less desirable, because of an added perception of less money/class/financial... height? And Lupita all the way. I thought it when I saw your thumbnail.

I remember in high school it was character day for school. I dressed up as Wonder Woman while another darker skinned girl dressed up as Harley Quinn. This guy who was probably one of the darkest skinned guys at my school was like, " That costume would look better if she were lightskinned or mexican." I stared at him in shock because of how rude it was and bc he was darkskin himself. Its just sad .

As Andre 3000 wore, "Across cultures, darker people suffer most. Why?"

having types on skin color is beyond weird-

Im dark, like a bit darker than your average dark skin, and seventh grade my friend black girl herself, said out of the blue when we were talking about boys " Tangi, your beautiful neh it's just that you're dark".. and all the way to highschool it stuck with me. Recently I tried convincing myself that I'm not that dark and searched Darkerrr ppl just to make myself feel better, but I realize how toxic that is I since accepted my skin tone but once in a while I do wish to be lighter. Cause I'm dating a colored (basically a mixed boy) and I can't help but always worry of him leaving me for a lighter shade like his. I know it's silly but it do be like that sometimes.

Thank you for speaking on this matter, as a dark skin woman it's hard. I've had white girls say I'm ugly but in the same breath compliment Kylie's features. I've had black men call me ghetto and loud for no reason, even though I'm stupidly shy. It's so frustrating I feel like as a dark skin woman I constantly have to tone it down there is no room for error which is infuriating, cos I'm a human being like I have flaws. As I've gotten older I've had to really tone down my personality especially around black men because if I act as a so-called stereotype its game over, it also funny because if I don't act like this trope they want its an issue. Due to my dark skin people love to call me aggressive which is so infuriating because I'm just assertive, I know what I want and I'm going to get it. Overall being a dark-skinned woman is hard, but we shall all persevere.

I went to Aruba last year and this guy who was running a small, outdoor-ish souvenir shop told me he loved my skin tone. I'm brown skinned (I don't pass the paper bag test), but I was even darker then because I had been in the sun all week. His compliment stuck with me. Even though my sister, who's a littler lighter than me, was standing next to me, said said it to me. Although nobody's ever bullied me specifically or said anything bad about my skin tone, I know colorism is very real. I hope that guy has a great life ❤️

Somebody made the comparison with how Zendaya’s femininity and Megan Thee Stallion’s femininity are perceived. Even tho Zendaya dresses masc sometimes and Megan doesn’t, people still say that Zendaya is more feminine while saying that Megan looks like a man.

colourism is bad everywhere. im half white and a lot lighter than my south east asian grandma. shes always telling me to look after my lovely light skin, how im so pretty and stuff like that, how i should keep out of the sun and dont let myself tan (which i do very easy). shes never said that she thinks my skin is better than hers, but idk. she holds me in extremely high esteem and shes very self deprecating. she never goes outside for too long and she doesnt ever let the sun touch her. its so sad because shes so beautiful, even in old age, and she was when she was young too. shit sucks

Can we talk about how in shows/ movies has a light or mixed girl to play the black girl and for the black guy it's most of the time a dark skin guy. I hope if they are doing a live action "The Princess and the Frog" Tiana is a dark skin girl

Perfectly said. But twitter ain’t ready for it since there’s still people to this day, that think dark skinned people are reaching with this topic. So I gave up.

10:30 that part hit hard 😭 I hadn't seen a lot of dark skin Indian women growing up and when I did, I badly wanted to paint one because they were so beautiful but when I went to Google to look for Indian women as a reference...It took more specific searching to finally find women w darker tones 🙃

So as a little girl I loved playing outside. Naturally my skin got dark and all that. Then in high school I was in marching band so again my skin would darken. Subconsciously I didn’t like my skin tone. I never knew why though. I was 14 rubbing lemon on my arms so I could be lighter. Then when I quit marching band junior year, my skin became lighter. Little by little guys started to show interest in me and I began to gain more friends. I always thought that maybe since I quit band, I had more time to do my makeup and that’s why I looked/felt prettier. Literally after watching this video and reading some of the comments, I realized it was colorism. I didn’t like my dark skin. People didn’t like dark skin, until I began getting lighter that’s when I felt included and wanted. Wow. Just wow...

And let's not forget that we can show love appreciation and support without fetishizing!! correct me if im wrong, but it seems like a lot of the Instagram pages who might claim to uplift dark-skinned women actually exotify and hypersexualize,.

Am a brown skinned South Asian American girl and my family is EXTREMELY colorist. My mom is considered “fair skinned”along with my aunties and am pretty sure they used whitening/bleaching products at some point in there life as it’s very common here. I heard comments like kalu (basically meaning darkie) and other stuff and my mom told me when I was a baby(like 1-3 years)she would make these natural face masks in hope of whitening my complexion . At the age of 9 I grew hating my complexion and thinking that if I had white skin I would be so much prettier I always imagined myself with clear white skin. It took me a while to confront the problem and grow to love myself and am still on that journey. It’s really hard especially since am living with the people who believe and say these things that hurt me and if me and my mom are in a argument she brings up theses insecurities I have like acne and brown skin and that’s hurts a lot especially since she’s my mom. Her colorist attitude eventually seeped into me without realizing it.

"Things don't need to happen to you to be real" lol COVID.

Commenting for the algorithm. More people need to see this.

Whenever I go to India, I'm always *in shock* at the makeup counters cuz there's usually like .... 4 shades of foundation ... all of which are too fair for me and many other Indian women. The marketing there is truly so insidious - Fair & Lovely is probably the biggest brand, and aside from having a very _yikes_ name, it also has a very successful line of skin lighteners for BABIES. Babies?? Absolutely disgusting.

bruh coco jones is so talented i feel so bad that she wasn’t given the chances like zendaya ...

A few of my male, darker skinned cousins have always dated white or light skinned/racially ambiguous girls. One of them seems to only likes Asians. I asked them what the darkest skin tone is that they like on girls, and he said no darker than me. My color is basically like the exact middle ground between light skin and dark. (Used a filter in my pfp I am not that light)And when I asked what’s wrong with dark skinned girls, the first thing he says is “well I don’t want her to be ghetto.” I may not be dark skinned myself, but it made me so upset. Dark skin= ghetto??? They say they don’t like dark skinned girls, but their own little sister has deep, dark brown skin! And she is far from “ghetto.” I blatantly said told him he was being colorist.

As a liiight skin brown woman....thank you for this I always need to remind myself we all have different struggles and to check my own privileges being ethnically ambiguous

As a light skinned black girl, my mom never taught be feel any differently from my siblings because they are darker. I’ve never felt “superior” because I wasn’t taught that. My twin sister is darker then because it runs in our family. And I get asked a lot “why is she darker and you’re lighter?” Or “y’all don’t look alike” or “y’all are not twins” and it irritates the both of us because people literally go out of their way to point our physical differences. As a sister to my siblings, it GENUINELY makes me uncomfortable when people point out that I’m light than my siblings solely because the “bias” I was automatically granted because of my complexion. And I don’t know to express that uncomfort without someone not believing me. I’d never want to make ANYONE feel uncomfortable because the bias I was granted let alone my siblings. I’m always vocal about colorism and racism on my insta because I know my sisters’ struggles as darker women not because they tell me, but because I also see it. And if I can make difference with that “biased ”, I will. I try to go out my way to defend black women on ANYTHING

Yep. Colorism is also when biracial actresses who are lightskin get all of the black girl roles even when they’re not black themselves. Also when darker skin people get roles but they’re stereotypes or they get villainous roles. Honestly they’re are so many things to talk about when it comes to colorism and it can be so overwhelming to think about how many systems are put in place to hurt dark skin woman and girls all over the world. (Had to fix my spelling errors because wow)

as a psychologist, I think this is of extreme importance in (and out of) theraphy when working with non-white clients! I've always been an allie (trying to never overstep) but it takes some work to see behind the "white glasses" (sort of speak) to fully understand these issues. thank you so much, I'm loving every video you've made.

The youtube algorithm really did me a solid by recommending your channel! I've been going through a lot of your videos and really enjoying them and learning a lot!

When you talk about Black people, especially dark skinned Black people denying colourism, it makes me think of those women who come out saying there is no such thing as sexism, and that we don't need feminism. This infuriates me. So much ignorance. People need to look outside of their own experiences.

There is nothing more frustrating to me than hearing "oh you're cute for a dark skinned girl". Or having ALL of your light skinned friends call you "tar baby" as their "term of endearment"

Hey, I’m white and I just want to let you know how much I appreciate these videos. I wanted to learn more about racism and how to notice it more in society and you are one of the most amazing people I’ve seen on this app. Thank you for forcing me to have uncomfortable debates in my head about my own biases and racism and geez this makes me sound like the biggest suck up but I really mean it, thank you :)

This reminds me of a really interesting/sad book about being poor and dark-skinned in Japan (the first half of the book that is, second half is about being eventually successful in her career and the misogyny against single women in their 30's), Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami. In it she talks about her sister that bleaches her nipples, and damn... Just damn. It's awful. I highly recommend the book. Most intense but empathetic description of skin bleaching I've ever read.

Ohhh honey lupita is more than just "beautiful".... She gorgeous She talented She Eeerrrrrttthhhhang!

Colourism is a MAJOR issue in Asia as well 😔

I just started watching your videos and I'm obsessed!!💕. Your ability to just speak on topics so many people just "tap dance" around is inspiring. 💕✨

Hey, Sis!!! Thank you for covering this topic on your platform!! I see colorism denial every day! Love what you have to say at the end about how lighter skinned women can help dismantle this system!! Much love!!

Okay so I’m Mexican and I have 3 other siblings. 2 of which are a darker complexion and I always get so mad when people tell my sister that she’s “so pretty for being a dark girl” LIKE WTF WHY CANT SHE JUST BE CALLED PRETTY.

How about when you call out colorism and people think you're jealous, like light skin is something to be jealous over. Nothing is wrong with people with lighter skin, but that's certainly not anything to be jealous about.

I love that you finished with your acknowledgement of your own use of insulting looks in general as being something not to strive for. It's refreshing to see a KZfaqr own up to their humanity and ofc not pretend like their above everything. Still confident and strong in the opinions on the video and a really good topic to elaborate on. Thanks a lot for fermenting on the thoughts and sharing them with us. ❤️

"It's not a coincidence. It's colorism." - Tee Noir, 2020 Amen, sis.

I think featurism is also something that needs to be talked about, especially within the black community, as there is a lot of talk about who has "the good hair" and it goes into colourism as well, since it is a traditionally biracial/mixed trait to have looser curls, a smaller nose, etc. Although I class myself as a brown-skinned girl (who is lighter than most dark-skinned women but doesn't benefit from colourism to the same level as light-skinned women, I have been told I have "the good hair" by women with 4c hair cos of my slightly looser 4a curls, which breaks my heart to hear as there is a ridiculous social construct built around hair and other bodily features, practically oppressing people with tighter curls, or less Eurocentric features in general.

I will never understand colorism, in the black community but as a latino I can tell you that s*it is real. Just let the queen talk. and learn.

Colorism within black/interracial families is way too prevalent. Cant tell you how many women I know who have been pitted against their siblings because of this, myself included. Thank you for beautifully articulating something that needs to be understood by ALL.

i am a college sociology professor and loving all your videos ! reflects a lot of my course lecture/topics .. love students (and colleagues) like you

As an afrolatina (Dominicana to be specific) colorism is literally part of my culture and it makes me sick how downplayed it is because people think it's all "relajo"

As a latin woman I can say for sure that colorism has been and still is one major problem in our societies . You see it in the media representation where the protagonist has more european features (white skin, blue/green eye color, straight hair), and some of the side characters have darker skin and more mixed features or even the musical artist with more success are those who resemble that "image" I'm from Venezuela and just like you I have light skin and really curly hair, but I have always noted how some people have treated my white best friend better, or have commented how pretty her pale skin. Meanwhile my other best friend who has a beatiful dark skin, has been told many many MANY times that she is too "negra" (black) and when we are together people tend to favor me instead because of my light complexion. I'm always been proud of our heritage as a mixed race and the diversity in colors, shapes and sizes but it made me sad because seems that we still have the colonizers mindset where the more pale your skin is the more beatiful you are which to me is utterly crap. Aaand that's all for my TED-talk thank you for coming! (also forgive me for any grammar mistake, english is not my first language and I've barely had a chance to practice)

*STARES* “I love the scenery “. THAT GAZE MADE ME THINK I WAS GONNA DIE 🤣. And why is it funny

I am SO GLAD you covered the Basketball Wives issue, especially calling out Evelyn Lozada. I would love it if you would do a follow up piece on OG? She leaked a full conversation about colorism on her Instagram whereas VH1 only showed the edited version that made her look like she was being difficult.

I went to a mostly white school. Maybe 30-45 black kids in a school of 900 kids. I was called the n word by white kids and Blackie by black kids. I never went to therapy but my hatred of everyone makes me think I should go.

As an Indian, colorism is something in India too 😞

“The world doesn’t revolve around you and your individual experiences” ... Damn... Yes to that. 👌🏾

I found your channel during a bout of insomnia last night and I'm learning so much! Subscribed for sure!

Thank you for this video because there are a lot of lighter-skinned black women and/or hyper feminine or hyper sexualized darker skinned women that don't get it. They don't get the bit of anxiety of chopping off all your hair and having a jawline knowing that it takes away some of your femininity and you will most likely be called a man, stud or butch If dark skinned women dont have the "desirable" body types, feminine facial features, or at least long hair and like makeup we arent allowed to exist

"Dark skin people cannot be colorist" In my experience, dark skin men are the most colorist people I know.

I've watched a few videos of yours. I don't know why it took me so long to subscribe. I apologize about myself, but I'm here now. Ready to learn and grow. I appreciate your insight! I've learned a lot about LGBTQIA+ issues and racial issues (even though I am a POC myself). I've recently rediscovered my love for learning and you are part of the reason. So thanks for helping to make me better!

I didn't know the term colorism until this video, but it immediately made me think of the biography of Malcolm x where he talked about how he was his father's' favorite' and would always get less punishment than his other brothers and sisters. He explained that he had the lightest skin tone among his brothers and sisters and he believed that was the main reason for the minimal punishment he received, saying that the idea that a lighter complexion was 'superior' was so ingrained into society that even his father, a man with a darker complexion, unintentionally treated him better than his siblings. Now, I'm white and I understand that I will never experience the negative side-effects of both racism nor colorism, but based on what you've said in this video, it leads me to believe that my brother has experienced colorism himself as a dark-skinned male, even if in subtle ways such as getting a worse punishment than another kid that was white and did the deed alongside him. And I already assumed this was happening but I just thought it was racism at its finest, and it is, but it's also colorism showing its true, well, colors. I really appreciate you teaching me all that you do so I can be a better ally to the black community. Your help is more than I could ask for.

Here in Puerto Rico colorism is literally everywhere and im so sick of having to explain why the disgusting things i’ve heard are wrong. There was a girl here that fought against bullies that constantly harassed her for being dark skinned and she ended up being expelled for fighting and faced 5 aggression charges. Her name is Alma Yadira Cruz and she sparked protests from mostly younger generations here that are tired of all the colorism on the island.

speaking as a lightskinned indigenous person, one of the more irritating discussions that keeps getting brought up in my community is the treatment of lightskinned or white-passing natives. i understand it, since i lived off rez which compounded the loneliness, isolation, and alienation i felt from my people, and from my own experience it seems a lot of other lightskin ndns had similar upbringings too. when i was finally able to become more involved with my culture, it was very rare for me to encounter pushback from darkskinned natives. and whenever it _did_ happen, i understood enough about what we all went through that it didn't bother me. i just knew that i wanted to love, support, and help my people which meant acknowledging the disparity between how i, a lightskinned native, and my darkskinned brothers and sisters navigated the world. so imagine my surprise when social media allowed us to carve out spaces for our people and our communities, and a disappointing majority of those spaces were little more than echo chambers for the lightest and brightest. :/ wanna let off some steam with a couple of ~cherokee princess~ jokes? be prepared for a caramel chorus with a limp grasp on context and tissue paper for skin to chime in with a lecture about blood quantum! how about a nice, affirming post encouraging you to take pride in your skin, for it is a gift from the ancestors? only if you're willing to deal with whataboutisms from a bunch of nuance deficient toddlers. the worst is whenever darkskinned natives finally get the opportunity to take up the space they need to vent their frustrations about how they're perceived and treated in colonial society, only to have the beige brigade gaslight them because it's just _so hard_ to be mistaken as non-native, *especially* by all of the mean brownies. i'm not on social media anymore but when i was this sort of behaviour was rampant. i think i found maybe two fairly popular pages that were outspoken about not catering to the feelings of lightskinned/white-passing natives, and it was common to see them trying to pick fights with the creators for "discrimination". i could go on and on about the topic of colorism and how goddamn frustrating it is, and i'm not even part of the demographic that colorism punishes! so i can only imagine how damaging, exhausting, and alienating it is for darkskinned people who have to deal with this shit. the world is already poisonous enough for those living within the indigenous diaspora, we shouldn't have to deal with people in our own communities acting as agents of white supremacy and colonialism, even if they are suffering under the effects of those systems too. that's why it's up to us lightskins to keep each other in check and stop letting this behaviour fester. we need to step up and take care of our most vulnerable, and it ain't us!

Great video as always, its good to see someone talking about issues that tend to get ignored out of ignorance. I think people of all shades are beautiful and its so horrible that there are people out there who genuinely hate dark-skinned people. I think you worded it well about how having a "preference" is just bullshit. I'm a white dude and I was lucky enough to grow up surrounded by people who look different than me, I've had a few dark-skinned best friends who were girls as a young teen, and one of my best friends is a dark-skinned black woman now. Beauty is so much deeper than skin color or appearance I wish people would open their eyes and see that.

Girl as a lighter skinned black woman i just checked myself thank you

As a white person I always kind of noticed that a lot of the woc representation I was seeing in mainstream movies were light skinned women and I never really said anything bc I thought I was just being racist n trying to take roles away from black people. Tysm for making this video it was very informative❤️

I didn’t really like when you said ‘Colorism is not a severe as racism’ ... as a darkskinned woman, colorism has been way worse to me than racism

This makes me think of a situation that happened to my cousin. It was me, my twin sister, and my cousin who was pushing her son in the stroller while heading to our table in an all you can eat buffet restaurant. Now my sister and I are black but we’re light skinned where as though my cousin is black too but darker and have a deeper brown complexion. My cousin’s baby is also light skinned about close to the same shade as my sister and I. We happened to be seated at a table behind two white women who were talking and as we all were walking over towards the plates we over heard the two white women saying that my cousin’s baby must of been adopted! They seen this darker woman pushing a stroller with a light skinned baby in it and assumed it wasn’t hers! I was furious! I told my cousin that I’m going over there to confront the two elderly white women but my cousin and my twin urged me not to. The whole time at the table they kept smiling and talking to my cousin’s baby from behind but I couldn’t help but to feel angry and outraged. I wanted to stand up for my cousin.

Thank you so much for making this video! I just found your channel and your content is wonderful, you tackle these issues so clearly and comprehensibly, and I really admire how you own up to your mistakes when you make them. As a southeast asian, I've experienced colorism before, and this was really enlightening to see how it affects the black community as well. It's interesting because I'm lighter than most light skinned black people, but still seen as darker compared to other people from my culture. There's some interesting nuance there about where someone does or does not experience privilege or oppression based on their skin tone. Based on which country I'm in and who I'm around, I have been on both sides of that coin.

This channel making us smarter every day

I need new friends with this kind of mind set. all my "friends" are colorist and it's really draining. I'd also like someone to talk to about racial stuff without getting butthurt about it 😒😒

Hey, I really appreciate your content. Thank you for telling about these issues. This is important. I would not know about these issues as much as I do now w/out youtubers like you, who take time & energy to do this kind of journalism. You are gorgeous, I just wanted to say. I live in Finland, so it is so educating to get awarness about these issues, as social discourse here it is not in the same place - as it should be (in the same place, I mean) I think. I only have experienced oppression as a woman and as a Sami - which is native people here; and we can not even have a proper discourse about that either, what kind of cruelty & oppression has done to my grandmother, grandfather, even to my mother, but this is getting so out of topic. I wan’t to know more & became more aware of what I have learnt through different platforms in my life, so I can change how I see things.

"I've never experienced and earthquake before ... but I know them bitches exist!" Love this line!! People just fail to acknowledge privileges they have and completely disregard other people's experiences. Well said, Tee

The fact that the world is waking up to all things African American: culture, issues, politics, gender, economy, mental. It’s... it’s sickening, sad, upsetting; but sooo so so very necessary in this space & time. In the words of Spike Lee’s “School Dazes”: “WAAAKEEEE UPPPP!!!”

Thank you for clarifying that colorism is a world wide issue...in Perú it is a big issue, and many familys will compare the darker complexioned children to their lighter skinned siblings or cousins to make a point that a light shade of skin is more desireable. When a baby is born and it has fair skin or light eyes, people will say "que suerte! salió blanquito" "what luck! they came out fair/white". every group of cousins/siblings/etc has the "negrito/a" of the bunch which is basically just reaffirming and making it known that they are the darkest complexioned/haired of the group. my grandmother was born in a small village in Huancavelica a region in the southern central Andes mountains which was divided into two parts, one neighborhood being where the middle class "mestizo" lived and the neighborhood literally just across the street was where the majority indigenous and farmworker community lived. her mother always told her to never cross that street and that she should look to marry within their “middle class” and mestizo neighborhood or to another mestizo or a white man from a larger city. she always told my grandmother that she would have an easy time marrying because she was the fairest of her sisters, but that her older sister would not because she looked more like her father and she was "negrita" with very dark hair, eyes and medium olive skin. colorism and racism are like a cancer...they have no place in todays society. thank you for your videos, love watching you and receving an education on these topics!

I am binging all of your stuff right now. Your argumentation on these issues is fantastic.

This woman right here is one of the most strong, articulate people on the internet. You have helped me learn a lot, and I am truly grateful for your videos! Thank you for helping me on a journey of realizing my priveledge and becoming a better ally.