These reasons no longer apply today, but identity or group membership is more than biological ancestry I’m biracial and don’t feel uncomfortable if someone wants to identify. The lightskin jokes came in as a response and defense mechanism from dark skin jokes The jokes we get aren't a comparison to the violence and blatant discrimination dark skin people get. Racially half black half white for example someone is mixed' and their mom is black and dad is white, they are born mixed, if they get their moms skin theyre just mixed, if they get lighter skin like their dad theyre mixed and lightskin. 213k subscribers in the lightskin community
We are currently closed in solidarity with many other communities on reddit as a… I’m 18, from texas but with parents from the deep south and lightskin always meant a black or biracial person with a lighter skin tone. 50k subscribers in the twerkersinternational community This is a subreddit dedicated to twerking and other forms… R/thicksloppycreamy current search is within r/thicksloppycreamy remove r/thicksloppycreamy filter and expand search to all of reddit Lightskin is usually the term to use when describing light black people with two black parents
What i grew up with was Lightskin = a black (not mixed) person with two black parents who happens to have lighter skin Tayshaun prince of the detroit pistons You can see in the picture of his family his mom (white shirt) is unambiguously black High yella = same as above, but more yellow undertones in skin color Lightskin people, we need to do the same
My fellow lightskin black people, let me be the one to tell you if you didn't get the memo Colorism is real & has structural outcomes Lightskin people, if you don't have a lightskin friend to inform you that being called names or teased does not equal oppression, allow me.
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