wasn´t black-on-black racism a thing?
Like in
this article?
or with
the paper bag test?
I´m genuinely asking since I´m not even from the USA, but focusing so much on the skin color and saying only a certain tone of black is the REAL black seems kinda... racist
There is a lot of tension in the black community. There is resentment from dark skin African Americans towards light skin African Americans who had a lot of opportunities in the past like going to college and having apprenticeships. It wasn't too long ago dark skin and light skin African Americans did not share the same social groups. Light skin African Americans came from race mixing, in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries they had a better position society than dark skin African Americans. A good example of this house vs. field slaves. House slaves were either related to their owner or had sexual relations with the owner. House slaves lived a very different life than field slaves, and probably never interacted with fields slaves, so light skin African Americans continued only associate with each other.
I've seen on tumblr a lot of dark skin African American women who have a chip on their shoulders about light skin African American women being seen as prettier. They based this on representation in media, personally I don't see it. I see equal representation. I think the grudges they have is over black men preferring light skin women, which, not gonna lie, they do.
Africans do not like African Americans, we are seen as lacking ambition, ignorant, violent by Africans. Which I can say I don't blame them, lots of African Americans are really ignorant making grass hut, taxi driver, skin color, and AIDS jokes. If you are an African immigrant in an inner city school that is prominently African American you will get bullied.
African Americans want to act like the only problem is white people, and don't want to focus on their own issues. There are lot of different skin tones, fuck everyone in my family has a different skin tone, for one.
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