My experience was different.
I was working in a retail Store and some people who were very black,
Came into the store.
My black coworkers were practically sneering at them.
They were talking about how black they were.
I was shocked.
Colorism among black groups was a theme in Spike Lee’s film School Daze, which is based on his experiences at Morehouse College. It’s a weird thing.
Out here in flyover country it’s been common knowledge that there is an unwritten caste system among dark skinned people themselves, which is based upon darker and lighter shades of brown and black.