These reasons no longer apply today, but identity or group membership is more than biological ancestry 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. I’m biracial and don’t feel uncomfortable if someone wants to identify.
Lightskin People at John Halliburton blog
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. 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. 213k subscribers in the lightskin community We are currently closed in solidarity with many other communities on reddit as a…
When i was growing up lightskin specifically referred to a black person, with two black parents, who happened to be light High yellow was for a black person, with two black parents who also happened to be lighter. Lightskin is usually the term to use when describing light black people with two black parents Reply reply more replies some1fromreddit •
Lightskin black people the younger generation doesn’t realize they have white ancestry it’s generations of biracial marrying other biracial but going by the one drop rule.
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
