Yes!!

THANK👏🏽YOU👏🏽

I too grew up in a household of brown skinned siblings and my oldest sister (my mothers daughter) very fair skinned . It happens 🤷🏽‍♀️

Lauren London isn’t black though

@@minae9935 yes she is

Coco would have been good!!!!!

Coco Jones is killing it in Belair

Coco and Marsai are 2 of my favorite actresses

yes! Didn’t even think of Sierra McClain!

@@MakaykayLAMB I loved her in Empire

Or just the ghetto ones. I want us to be represented as classy educated , feminine woman in more movies. We already know white people will always be in top of us but nowadays things have changed. Black woman can be successful!

And if you achieve more than them get loved on etc they will tear you down and be mad because you’re dark you don’t deserve it!

Or always the token smart black girl 😔

@@queenlii4334 right. Hell I wanna be a damsel in distress lol

@@ULuvJanae do it sis don’t let the raggedy men tell you not to I held my nose high as a dark skin girl got married at 22 to a fine amazing the best father in the world dark skin dude! We all just gotta have Grace each on other and forgive each other because we just learning or becoming more aware

Bernie said the kids had to look like him , he kept it real indeed.

Family matters did good

This 🔥🔥🔥🔥

The younger daughter was light skin though lol

@@sunnymane the little girl was brown skinned, stop it..

Actually a lot of the 90s- early 2000s sitcoms we grew up on were produced by white film producers… the difference between today and then are the ACTORS casted. Remember majority of the sitcoms stars were BLACK COMEDIANS during a time when comedy is hot and all the comedians were taking advantage because that’s what sold. The actors had say in WHO they wanted to be on the show so casting was done primarily by them not the producers…

Nola Darling and the Chewing gum girl are near dear to my heart

Shonda let us down too

@@alias7206 don’t even get me started on Shonda🙄🙄

@@lauraaniakor9815 she urks my soul she had the opportunity with Bridgerton to make a break out star and she chose dark skinned Indian girls! Talking about they need visibility they get plenty in their own films and we don’t even get that! and let’s not even get into the rest smh

YOO! I will NEVER forget the old navy commercial with the DARKSKINNED, like Seal colored man and these two little light bright kids with blue eyes and blonde kinky curly hair🥴😂😂😂😂 they just be fucking with us right in our face girl😂

Oh yeah. I never see full black families in commercials anymore. I usually see a bm, a ww, and the mixed daughter. Never a mixed son likely because people fetishize mixed daughters more than mixed sons…. It’s all I see now.

Most of the couples in commercials are interracial couples. Biracial children will then of course replace Black kids.

Omg great observation I had to think about it and your right

Seriously & it’s so weird

I hate to break it too you but it is never going to change it is actually going to get worse with us brown/darkskinned women. You seeing now how they are slowly and surely trying to erase us from Hollywood and real life truth be told.

This is so sad 😔

Same here. They say “open casting” but really they don’t know what type of racially ambiguous person they really want. Racially ambiguous was at the top of every audition notice

Please don’t give up on your passion. One of the main characters on Wednesday is black. Slowly Darksin women are getting opportunities m.

@@BemaBeams ehhh black people contribute to the issues as well because colorism occurs within the black community. So it’s not as simple as that .

Well Hollywood isnt even predominantly black for it to be “our” fault BLACK isn’t represented. We as viewers don’t pick and choose which brown/darkskin beauty gets the acting role (even though it would be great if we did)… large part is colorism deeply rooted and engrained in Hollywood. Black people would be alright if they pulled a Tyler Perry (create our OWN film industry, separate from that of White Hollywood). Then I think we’ll truly be alright!

Not enough black Stories being written to even compete with the mass Media and it still doesn’t help us be included in main stream Production.

@@Elizabeth.Kazeem Yep that’s true and unfortunately you have BW contributing to they’re own erasure.

Sad cruel unfair discriminating world !🌍

@@alanabruno I think so too, but black Wall Street taught me that white people like to burn down the things that we build and assassinate our leaders so it’s possible but we always have to worry about them and their jealousy

The whole Black community should pull their resources together and create stories that we want to see with actors who look like us

@@destinymcgowan5328 how about we separate, dark skin & light skin should be no part of one another, it's for the best

Thisss! Ugh it’s so annoying, and that’s the main reason many of us don’t dare to speak up..

Yea us FBA dsbw reject any and all colorism. We fight that. No one else seems to be.

​@@justme2272 I do and I've been so confused by where I fall in it's exhausting. I'm caramel always thought of myself as a brown girl. Had to ask my spouse what color I was. It's the makeup industry keeping colorism alive al9ng with black men. SMH

Exactly and in real life Eddie has mixture in his family all shades and hair texture with his shade being the DARKEST with some of his kids maybe his shade.

@@rozieroz7252 Yeahh the self hating texurism and colorism dog whistle is STRONG out here 😮‍💨😮‍💨

If you watched the movie how come you completely missed the part when he was pissed because his wife's ( nia long) white grandfather showed up in his kids?? Colorism is definitely a thing but not in this scenario.

@@nataliewalton5118 that’s my exact point…. I watched the movie and the colorism that I’m referring to is the colorism applies in almost all of the casting that the Producer Kenya Barris does.. it’s stark and prevalent in almost ALL of his work.

@@copiouscat , yeah but in this movie hes showing how this generation is made up of so many light skinned children.

Say that!!

BW hype them up the most tho. Whenever I mention how ice spice or Latto is only famous because of their complexion & not for their talent BW are the main ones who try to defend them & their position in BW spaces.

I know!! They just brush it off as hate on the artist and not a critique on the music industry

That AWFUL ICE SPICE!!! I don't get the hype around those “rappers”, except doja, I think she has actual talent. Whenever I call this out people call me a hater 😑😑😑

I get what you’re saying, but that’s more a combination of colorism and just simply what the AUDIENCE decides to stream🤷🏾‍♀️… the girls you named are hot because that’s who the masses tune in to. In what the video displays is more of its not up to US to pick WHO is going to be casted in these roles or WHO gets represented more… the music industry is largely the FANS picking who comes out on top.

Agreed

I mean she hasn’t been it that many movies honestly lol.

@@NiaraRenee The ones I’ve seen her in since ATL and even that show she had called Games People Play wasn’t all that good.

She’s a terrible actress I think everyone knows that lol

Yes! & LaLa , love both women but not impressed with their acting lol

I agree, I also thought of Tika Sumpter, I think she would've been perfect for the role.

Omg, did you watch the movie?? Cause Eddie's character was pissed that nia's character's grandfather being white showed up in his kids.

@@karabolerouxTika would’ve been good

@@nataliewalton5118 R h gonna leave this comment everywhere? Loll. If they had a child that was black they wouldnt have to make up that stupid story. They had to make up that story to justify why they had a mixed child

@@deewebster2527 exactly!

I’m the daughter of the “darkest skinned sister”, so your comment really hit me. I’m so glad you learned to love yourself. ❤️

So glad you saw how special your skin is

I don’t know how you ladies got over it, too be honest I don’t believe I ever have healed from being a darker skin women. It’s so hard to overcome when you deal with it from your own race& deal with it from society.

​@La’Shure Discussion I've literally been told on more than one occasion by black men that I would be prettier if I was light skinned. I'm thinking oookkkk...You're dark skinned like me so are you saying you're ugly lol🤔 It's strange

And they made Tasha the it girl in that.. biracial girl Paige Hurd go figure her and Parker McKenna (Katie from my wife and kids) are besties

We appreciate you!!❤❤❤

😂what!!!

@@melgood8 I said that because students tend not to like math and science and feel they don’t need it so to see someone actually making their teacher proud by using what they learned is appreciated.

Please tell me you actually told them that last part. And if you did, did they have a proper response or was it crickets all the way?

Exactly im so annoyed with people up here saying "two dark skinned parents can have a light skinned child". 1. That's not a regular occurrence. 2. Lauren London isn't light skinned she's mixed (and looks mixed). She doesn't look black. We need to stop normalizing exceptions to the rule when it comes to genetics.

Nia Long isn’t fully black though lol. Most African Americans are not fully West African. We are actually about a quarter European on average. And sometime a few percent Native. And Nia looks blasian if you ask me lol

@@KnijMagz lol mixed people are still light-skin though. Keep in mind African Americans typically aren’t fully West African lol

@SunnyMane we all know what the term light skinned means. It means a Black person with lighter skin due to racial admixture. Mixed and light skinned are two different things, but people love to use them interchangeably, which is inaccurate.

Yup!

They want dsbw to suffer so. That's why when they see us happy, they get mad🤔🤣🤣

It is. It's part of an age old government system sent to destroy our culture.

Yeah I always thought where they did find her at?

Yesss! Loved the 1st daughter

The first Clair was smart and the second Clair was dumb AF.

@@yasmeen7875 Yes she was very witty, the second one it was like they were trying too hard to make her slow. Wasn’t even funny.

I definitely preferred the first daughter but the second daughter made a bit more sense being that Damon is medium light and Tisha is flat out pale. You got argue that the girl took after tisha and the son took after the damon

Girl no, TWO darkskin black parents, brown skin son and lightskin daughter is EXACTLY what Choima is talking about in this video🥴😂

@@TC-wk8vqbut you don’t because WHERE did she come from🥴… they TWO FULLY BLACK parents with a FULLY black son, TWO SETS OF FULLY BLACK GRANDPARENTS make a light bright daughter🤔

The mama had locs too. I love that

@@alanabruno i could see how this is confusing, I meant more so growing up it felt good to see this it felt like a regular family but also her dad was a lighter complexion

@@TC-wk8vqmy original comment was never to you.. for some reason you responded. So my comment didn’t really go with your comment

i recommend you to subscribe to the women she shouted out in the begening too

I'm tired of this fake love bullshit, so I'm going to rant & darkskinned women pls LISTEN TO ME. In short, this is the same old "women praise who they aren't threatened by" ⚠️ THIS IS LONG GRAB YOUR POP CORN IF YOU WANNA READ: Of course brownskinned/medium toned women like her, Cyn g, Paris Milan & Crys logic are powerful ally to who they don't see as a threath. You darkskinned women aren't threatening to them, they dont try to get darker but always get lighter and wear wigs of who they constantly says aren't better looking than them. Her, Cyn G & the others are the same thing. If you really think these women think you're beautiful, you're funny, all they do is bash women I.e mixed lightskinned, white, latinas because they know most men prefer them, i repeat they are NOT your ally because they think dark/black is beautiful, they are your allies because they know after yall, they are the least chosen (I said what I said) if not why are they not keeping their darker skin & wearing straight/ curly wigs? Why are they getting lighter & lighter over time? I know women like these will turn white with blonde hair & blue eyes or mixed & lightskinned with Hazel eyes and 3c hair if given the chance in a second life. I will die on that. These type of women attack the women who are more socially desirable I.e mixed/white women, then pretend they are pro black/dark & 4c. My sister told me back women get happy when they see another bw darker than them, and I highly agree with that. Don't be trusting any internet/irl hoochie with low self esteem, they are using this as an excuse to dog out mixed lightskinned & white women not because they love darkskinned women, but because they are threatened by those women. I've especially confirmed it with Chioma. My proof? Well I'm really good at reading people, that & I'm a lightskinned girl who gets hated on by medium skinned /non dark women while in turn they be shouting black is beautiful, hyping of the darkskinned girl in our group, wanting to hang out with her but always avoiding going out with me, be buying lightening stuffs on the low & drooling over bi racial girls when no one is looking, while simultaneously acting like they don't care about black guys preference or this skin tone stuff. I'm Nigerian and I know ALOT of bleaching local companies, and I'll tell you most of the "before & after pics" and customers of thses bleaching businesses are NOT darkskinned women, most are browskinned women who bleach to white or light bright and lie that they started eating fruits. Anyways back to my initial story befire I write w book on that, I had a back and forth argument with Chioma more than a year ago, she said something along the line of: "You darkskinned women are just bitter" Just because me & a couple of girls pointed out that most of the girls in her modeling agency were mixed & very lightskinned. She kept trying to make it seem like I & other girls were darkskinned & jealous of brown skin women 😭😭🤣🤣 that's another they do in a heartbeat to darkskinned women, they'll insult your "blackness" IMMEDIATELY bc they know deep down they are chosen over yall. BUT THAT WAS NOT THE CASE. Like I said earlier, we were only pointing out that her modeling agency (which EXCLUDED white women, like that isn't bitter) was only full of light & damn near white blond mixed girls, but she kept calling us us bitter, tryna act like we were saying brown skin & light girls weren't supposed to be there (she was tryna group in brown/light girls together 🤣) Like I said, they always drooling over us & pick our aesthetic when no one is looking or a black man isn't involved, I bet if a black dude owned that modeling agency, suddenly he should have found more dark girls & the mixed lighties would have been the devil for being over represented. But she can do it, no biggie, why? Because despite everything bw say, they want lightskinned mixed girls to be the face of black beauty and they 100% adore white girls. She said alot of colorist things but i can't remember, it's in her community tab, but idk if it's all deleted. I haven't grasped any malice from chrissie or eloho, why? Because they are darkskinned women, those are your only true allies. Me & and other non darkskinned women truly at the end don't give a shit about yall, we are always trying to look for things that'll make us more desirable & competitive in the looks market above any other woman regardless of race & phenotype.

I'm tired of this fake love bullshit, so I'm going to rant & darkskinned women pls LISTEN TO ME. ⚠️ THIS IS LONG GRAB YOUR POP CORN: Of course brownskinned/medium toned women like her, Cyn g, Paris Milan & Crys logic are powerful ally to who they don't see as a threath. You darkskinned women aren't threatening to them, they dont try to get darker but always get lighter and wear wigs of who they constantly says aren't better looking than them. Her, Cyn G & the others are the same thing. If you really think these women think you're beautiful, you're funny, all they do is bash women I.e mixed lightskinned, white, latinas because they know most men prefer them, i repeat they are NOT your ally because they think dark/black is beautiful, they are your allies because they know after yall, they are the least chosen (I said what I said) if not why are they not keeping their darker skin & wearing straight/ curly wigs? Why are they getting lighter & lighter over time? I know women like these will turn white with blonde hair & blue eyes or mixed & lightskinned with Hazel eyes and 3c hair if given the chance in a second life. I will die on that. These type of women attack the women who are more socially desirable I.e mixed/white women, then pretend they are pro black/dark & 4c. My sister told me back women get happy when they see another bw darker than them, and I highly agree with that. Don't be trusting any internet hoochie with low self esteem,they are using this as an excuse to dog out mixed lightskinned & white women not because she loves darkskinned women, I've especially confirmed it with Chioma. My proof? Well I'm really good at reading people, that & I'm a lightskinned girl who gets hated on by medium skinned /non dark women while in turn they be shouting black is beautiful, hyping of the darkskinned girl in our group, wanting to hang out with her but always avoiding going out with me, be buying lightening stuffs on the low & drooling over bi racial girls when no one is looking, while simultaneously acting like they don't care about black guys preference or this skin tone stuff. Anyways ack to my initial story befire I write w book on that, I had a back and forth argument with Chioma more than a year ago, she said something along the line of: "You darkskinned women are just bitter" Just because me & a couple of girls pointed out that most of the girls in her modeling agency were mixed & very lightskinned. She kept trying to make it seem like I & other girls were darkskinned & jealous of brown skin women 😭😭🤣🤣 that's another they do in a heartbeat to darkskinned women, they'll insult your "blackness" IMMEDIATELY bc they know deep down they are chosen over yall. BUT THAT WAS NOT THE CASE. Like I said earlier, we were only pointing out that her modeling agency (which EXCLUDED white women, like that isn't bitter) was only full of light & damn near white blond mixed girls, but she kept calling us us bitter, tryna act like we were saying brown skin & light girls weren't supposed to be there (she was tryna group in brown/light girls together 🤣) Like I said, they always drooling over us & pick our aesthetic when no one is looking or a black man isn't involved, I bet if a black dude owned that modeling agency, suddenly he should have found more dark girls & the mixed lighties would have been the devil for being over represented. But she can do it, no biggie, why? Because despite everything bw say, they want lightskinned mixed girls to be the face of black beauty and they 100% adore white girls. She said alot of colorist things but i can't remember, it's in her community tab, but idk if it's all deleted. I haven't grasped any malice from chrissie or eloho, why? Because they are darkskinned women, those are your only true allies. Me & and other non darkskinned women truly at the end don't give a shit about yall, we are always trying to look for things that'll make us more desirable & competitive in the looks market above any other woman regardless of race & phenotype.

Bcuz dark skinned women are only allowed to play in movies like black panther n the woman king

@@ajerman9978 facts

I always thought biracial men preferred dark skinned women, at least that's what I've seen (but I know my world is small)...

Biracial men usually don’t obsess over light skin. I don’t know what you’re talking about…

I disagree about the biracial men. Usually it’s dark skinned men with self hatred who loves to pick the light skinned women. Biracial men loves dark skinned women.

literally irritated me because i read the book and was so excited to see the film 🙄

“Light skin bi-racial”

I'm actually glad a biracial girl played her. I personally don't want to see a pretty darkskin girl "fighting for some cause" lol

Tuhh… I’m so sorry you had to hear that! My mother used my complexion against me too. My mother is very lightskin (can easily pass as latina) and my father was a darkskinned man. I’m brownskin and my younger brother (whose father was Hispanic) is lightskin. Now growing up, I didn’t have insecurities about my complexion but my mother always isolated/ alienated me and my brother was very cold and distant and I couldn’t understand why. It wasn’t until my brother and I got older that he told me our mother used to tell him things like “she’s jealous of you because you’re light” or “she’s jealous because you have ‘good hair’”… and it broke me because those weren’t my feelings at all! It’s sad how the true hate in OUR community comes from the ones who birthed us…

@@alanabruno I’m so sorry you had to deal with that. I can’t even imagine. And you’re right, the issue stems from the person who birthed us or the ones who raised us. My grandmother never spoke like that (she was lighter skinned) but I never heard that kind of talk from her. I confronted my mother and we had a long conversation. If you haven’t already, maybe it’ll make you feel better if you have that convo with your mom?

@@laedollchickthank you for your compassion❤️ I wish it was easy to talk with her. My mother has her own set of issues and our relationship just isnt the best but I do hope one day we can have a conversation. I am so happy you were able to resolve and work things out with your mom ❤️ sending peace and happiness your way!

That’s exactly how I felt as a little black girl. Looking at the TV and thinking I had to be lighter to be pretty or seeing the black boys never choose you.

@@alanabruno omg I’m bawling crying wtf !!!!! 💔I’m so sorry

Yea she’s all I’ve been listening to lately 💖

Ikr KZfaq is weird nowadays

Well I hope she’s not your bestie anymore🥴 that’s stank behavior.. for her to even consider going in after seeing the bullshit and being with you.. girl no, I would’ve went tf home 🤷🏾‍♀️

wooowwww!!!! smh I wouldn't have ever attended that club never in life that's crazy these ppl I swear, just ridiculous.

She was not your friend wth

That was not a friend. She is one of those girls that keep you around to make themselves look more desirable. Don't fall for it.

Damn which part of hell is thus club located in?

Fab socialism said “if saweetie is black, I must be a super-negro”

Thank you! We have added to the one drop rule. When BW find out a biracial has a black parent we willing except them as black. I love Zendaya but I do not consider her black. Why are we supporting Doja cat cardi b why why why

It’s not just black women tho and don’t even say it’s mainly them because Black men do this A LOT too. Y’all forget black women have the least control over the industry and what we consume. Meanwhile you have niggas like Tyler Perry inviting everybody and they mama to the cookout. Let’s stop blaming black women for everything.

Sigh. Biracial people were always black. Do you guys not realize that many black people have/had mixed parents or grandparents that were "black" and way before many of your family came here or started identifying as such ? If you are not AA (actually from the US and not just born here) mind your business.

​@@tias.6675 Stop erasing us black women bitch 🙄🙄

OMG facts!!! It's like the entire purpose of the video went over everyone's head smh I'm losing hope for our ppl lol.

Not your father thinking colorism is a hoax or some made up word that does no harm or damage to our community… love, your daddy is part of the problem🥴😭

Trust me, its an ongoing argument. But he he set in his ways. Love him anyway.

That’s why I was shocked when he of all people pointed out the erasure of black women in media randomly one day while we were watching TV. It was the first time it penetrated a little. We were able to have a deeper conversation about it for the first time without arguing. I get passionate and he knows it. I still don’t think he truly gets it but it was progress. I think discord like this channel really opens up the conversation.

I think his wife is biracial but she does look white tho.

Issa Rae is trying

There’s no need to bring up his wife who isn’t a dark skin black women. Quinta Brunson is married to a white man and her love interests in Abbott elementary is a brown skin and dark skin black man. And Quinta herself is brown skin.

@@shirley444 and That is why I love Abbott Elementary. Quinta outdid herself, from casting to writing👏👏🔥

@@tequilamockingbird6734facts.

I didn’t even think to put that together. I forgot that she wasn’t human… the symbolism is just sad. She didn’t even have that much screen time either

@@lauraaniakor9815 She was acting agressive and ghetto (compare to Zendaya her older lighter sister) They knew what they were doing

@@monicacreator3168 that’s exactly what I was about to say, she was every stereotype and the brother had white woman fever

@@monicacreator3168 continuing that cycle… it’s like never ending and it’s so sad.

frfr just sitting back while the anti-black social brainwashing goes on, smh

Lol thats crazy Black woman…then continues to list features of a non black woman

Dark women aren't going through the trouble of dating, light skin guys have it way worst in the dating market because these dumb women think Dark skin men are God & praise them so heavily, while light skin men are looked down on & not desire by women in the community, that's why the community so Fukup because most of the dark skin men they praise & desire are no more then pooky street thugs that murder their women every day..so I'm kinda glade I'm not their choice because they are who they choose..all I can say is get your passport & leave these blk women behind with the pooky thugs they love so much, go where you're appreciate because blk females aren't our women

@@aigami7928 not the misogyny😂 but u made a decent point tho

except for Michael Elay, we cancelled him ever since he threw them kids out the window! 😭😭😭😭😭🤣

I made a video about light skin bm in Hollywood

I’d like to just add in that the black community I’d largely colorist so lightskin and mixed race men are actually usually preferred. My brother is mixed race and it’s very obvious that colorism affects both dark skin men and women

Yesss thank you ! Now don’t get me wrong she is an okay actor she is not all that . We know it’s bc she is the preference period ! But she is a baby mama . Period 2 different baby daddies we need to cut it out like seriously . Sad she lost her man but that literally happens every day in our communities. Chile I’m tied !

Nina Long is obviously not fully black. Keep in mind black Americans typically aren’t “fully black.” Nia Long looks very blasian lol

Lightskins are not mixed so I don’t know why you used lightskin and mixed in the same sentence

@@krimezofkolor4683 don’t minimise zendaya’s acting skills just because she’s mixed

​@@gojames1239 Light skinned is mixed.

Right! it's been weird and getting even weirder.

Why did she leave ?? What happened

Why she had be dark-skinned and prego ?

@@peekaboo3968| Was the new Claire even made pregnant, too???

@@peekaboo3968 she didn't her friend who was light skin was

Humans come in ALL DIFFERENT shades though so how your parents shades distribute through the kids, it might not be the same for the next mixed race family… your mother is biracial (I’m assuming she holds a black parent) and your father is fully African American which makes you and your siblings about 75% black so your brothers being their shade isn’t impossible at all; just how genes work🤷🏾‍♀️

I’m brownskin and my husband is biracial light skin both our kids are light skin but also my mother is light skin so it just depends on genetics

Let me tell you something , when then motherfuckers casted LATINA Zoe Saldana to portray NINA F-ING SIMONE in her biopic, I nearly fell TF out🥴😂 they were SO FUCKING WRONG 😭

Because they have an agenda

@@Lisette121 really think it’s because of ratings… black ppl need to not give these series that are undeserving of our attention, our attention; however, because there is SO much self hate in this community (based on how we view whiteness as being better) nothing will probably change.

I still don't like Zoe Salanda till this day for that foolishness. She was just too damn disrespectful and had the nerve to apologize like 10 yrs later after the film for taking that role.

@@thetruesoulofanaquarius9302 they did Nina SO wrong! Like Zoe, once they told you you would have to wear a prosthetic nose and basically play “Blackface” she should’ve reneged😭 then she had to play crazy! Like we know our good sis Nina wasn’t all the way right but COME ON NOW😂😂

The Cosby show. Denise and Sandra were biracial.

@@yasmeen7875 okay? They aren’t RACIALLY AMBIGUOUS looking women; if you didn’t know Lisa Bonet and Sabrina Le Beauf, you’d think they were LIGHTSKIN BLACK WOMAN. Which made the Cosby show very relatable in the sense of how the. typical BLACK family would look, especially with a LIGHTSKIN MOM & BROWNSKIN DAD…

Alana Bruno the typical black family is brown skinned women and brown skinned men. Light skinned people are in the family but they aren’t the typical black family.

Facts I always wonder who Towanda take her skin complexion after because Toni parents aren't darkskinned.

It’s understood that this happens, but it’s not the majority therefore mass media needs to stop presenting it that way.

Yes but none of them look mixed.

@@mirandaholley9797 Lauren don’t look mixed either…are ppl saying she look mixed bc she light skin? Gina from Martin isn’t mixed and she is light skin

@@dickersonr6172 No, you can be light skin and phenotypically look black or dark akin and phenotypically look mixed. Blasians look mixed despite many of them being dark.

If you think about it, the Cosby Show was the CLOSEST true depiction of what an “everyday black family” would look like which is why it was so relatable… it’s not hard to fathom that a LIGHTSKIN mother and BROWNSKIN father would make various BROWN and LIGHTSKIN children😂

@@alanabruno lite skin & biracial arent the same 🙄 they could’ve easily found and unambiguous BW for that role but they chose biracial…probably because bill Cosby has a history of colorism himself

@@nicki1197 never said they were the same… I’m simply speaking on SKIN TONE/COMPLEXION… Sondra and Denise in REAL LIFE are biracial women but they don’t look RACIALLY AMBIGUOUS 😂 if you lived on the Huxtables block, their family looks like a regular BLACK family (lightskin mom + brownskin dad = various SHADES of BLACK children)…

Did you know that Bill Cosby and his wife (a light-skin woman) originally wanted Clair to be a Dominican house wife to 5 kids as a throwback to Lucy and Dez (Clair was suppose to have moments she spoke in spanish when upset like how Dez did for a comedic effect)? Ironically, Black America would not have the Cosby show as a TV show example of a positive black family if Hollywood had not PUSHED Cosby to have an American black family with Clair being a BLACK lawyer. Cosby tried to buck against the network. If you notice, he does write parts tgat has Clair speaking Spanish. With that known, now you see how the oldest daughter was casted with a biracial phenotype.

​@YellowRoseOvTx Yep. Claire spoke Portuguese with Theo's teacher, Mrs. Westlake. One of my favorite episodes.

I mean, they still could've gotten another little Black girl to play the role. They didn't have to go lighter or get a whole biracial woman or lighter skinned woman

@@destinymcgowan5328 right! Let’s be fr here. They’d never cast a BW for a role that was meant for a nonBW ; most people would never accept it. BW are the only ones who would

@@destinymcgowan5328 exactly

I don’t remember Claire ever being pregnant on the show the brother was the one who was having a baby with some teen girl

@@ronim924 that was the scene with Raven Summons being the pregnant friend that her parents didn’t want her apart of

facts

Well call me when you find the hot breath hoe because we finna jump em😂😂

India Arie would've had that role. She would've been perfect for it in my opinion.

I still wanna fight Zoe Salanda for even taking that role. So rude and disrespectful. Had a nerve to apologize years later for taking that role girl bye.

@@thetruesoulofanaquarius9302 let's be for real, she only apologized due to the backlash and low ratings . Had the film been successful, she would've never apologized

@@s.c.h6512 no one saw that ish lol

Right!!

The original cast looked way better. The new Bellaire cast doesn't even look American.

@@tias.6675 Wtf… You’re implying that cos they’re dark skin it don’t look as good and they look like they’re from another country… First of all what’s wrong with that u fucking weirdo. This sounds colorist or racist and it’s not giving what u thought it was giving

It has nothing to do with skin color. If Denzel Washington, Blair Underwood, and Keyshia Pulliam or Shar Jackson were casted instead, there would be no problem. They're attractive and actually look like/are the AA' they're portraying.

@@tias.6675 the mum is stunning and so are the daughters

@@tias.6675 the women of the old cast were all mixed

Thank you!! This comment section is annoying

THANK YOU 👏👏

These lightskin people be lying. I have 4 brothers and we are all different skin tones ranging from light to dark. That isn’t because black comes in all shades. That’s because my mother is a mixed race woman. She identifies as black but that don’t change that she Carrie’s mixed race ancestry. If all your sibling vary in skin tone you carry mixed race ancestry. Period.

Darkskin isn't rare , darkskin is the majority within the black community lol and yes black is beautiful in every shade

Dark skinned people are not the majority. The majority are brown skinned as reflected in Hollywood 20+ years ago.

Marvels Loki and Scarlet Witch show have a two dark skinned lead roles