[little jeremiah]

Lot of yellow undertone in the skin. Wonder if he has Hep C.

[Mila]

“Lot of yellow undertone in the skin. Wonder if he has Hep C.”

He’s not sick it’s just that he’s a mixed race person with yellow skin tones. Obama does not really fall into the category of “high yellow” (think Mariah Carey or Jennifer Beals), he falls somewhere after that.

Excerpted from Wikipedia entry linked below-

“In her 1942 Glossary of Harlem Slang, Zora Neale Hurston placed “high yaller” at the beginning of the entry for colorscale, which ran:

“high yaller, yaller, high brown, vaseline brown, seal brown, low brown, dark brown”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_yellow