Posted on 03/23/2005 5:20:45 AM PST by FlyLow
Same thing in Brazil. In Mexico. In Southeast Asian countries like Japan, Korea, Philippines.
Its no secret that blacks are mor than capable of racism towards whites, asians, hispanics, and those blacks who "aren't dark enough".
Think not? If you're white, trying dating a black female without having your life insurance droppped.
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Hmmmm...never happened to me. Maybe my insurance company is color blind.
What?
Wasn't there a Spike Lee movie about this?
Some people are filled with self hatred.
I can't believe this would actually go on in today's society.
Signed,
Red-Headed Step-Child
Reynold's is really uninformed if she thinks there's no such thing as colorism among white people.
This is true. Otherwise why would Denzel be afraid to kiss Julia or why Terri Macmillan's book Waiting to Exhale be so popular? There are some parts of this article that are true. However, this is only one side of the experience of this trend.
Ask the Penn State QB who beat the white cop nearly to death becasue he had a black date. Ask the football players at OSU.
"Its no secret that blacks are mor than capable of racism towards whites, asians, hispanics, and those blacks who "aren't dark enough"."
And when a fair skinned white guy like me puts on a pair of shorts, the insults fly about how pale I am and need to get a tan.
"Reynold's is really uninformed if she thinks there's no such thing as colorism among white people."
See post 13. I have experienced it my whole life.
ping
FYI..sorry I don't have the exact title, or time to find a link for you, but there is a must read article in last Sunday's NY Times magazine about a young consrvative black economist at Harvard who is asking some fascinating questions about these issues, and their impact..Definitely worth reading..It should be on their website..regards..
Who is more obsessed with what color they or others are or what shade of that color they or others are...
For cryin' out loud...
Somebody should fund a nice fat gobmint study...
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Yes I saw it. There's a lot of colorism and different cultural oddities among white people. No one has asked. There's brunettes vs. blondes and all the stereotypes that go with it.
Indeed. Among the women I dated when I was young and single were a couple of black girls and, when I as an army officer in Oklahoma, a native american girl. Lovely women, in each case, inside and outside: educated, athletic, funny, and interestted in many of the same things I was. The parents and siblings of the black and native american girls had fits about them dating a white guy. I was threatened a couple of times, and the native american girl's father, a chief of some sort, even made his daughter move back to the reservation from her apartment in town, and had the tribal police bar me from entry.
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