However, Pat “JesusMonger” Robertson will call it a deal with the devil while Lush Limpballs will claim Obama is courting the “light-skin and dark-skin” blacks. ❋ Unknown (2010)
“You got your light-skin brother in the white house” this was said to me 5min after Obama won. ❋ Unknown (2009)
“What you in for, light-skin?” they would ask, as I drag on a nauseating high tar cigarette. ❋ Sabrina Lamb (2010)
I.e., countries that have white women or light-skin Asians that look like white women when you cover up their eyes. ❋ Unknown (2010)
However, Stephanie Mills' career is just one known casualty of this system of light-skin privilege. ❋ Anxious Black Woman (2008)
But, when it came to a white supremacist, Jim Crow segregationist system, that light-skin privilege was relative. ❋ Anxious Black Woman (2008)
To me, the difference between light-skin privilege and white privilege is that white privilege comes with power, and light-skin privilege comes with the illusion of power. ❋ Anxious Black Woman (2008)
I'll note for the audience's benefit that I'm the fellow light-skinned woman who stated that "we must acknowledge the ways we benefit from light-skin privilege..." ❋ Anxious Black Woman (2008)
For the record, I wasn't "trivializing" the light-skin vs. dark-skin debate by calling it a sexual competition. ❋ Anxious Black Woman (2008)
However, I hope that we, as black women, can come together and challenge ourselves on the light-skin/dark-skin issue, for we've been carrying too many scars and hurts, imagining that the other hue has wronged us in some egregious way. ❋ Anxious Black Woman (2008)
The discussion about light-skin vs. dark-skin is so limited in its scope that we really haven't addressed what is truly meant by "privilege" and "power." ❋ Anxious Black Woman (2008)
If miss light-skin was the better singer wouldn't your theory say she would have to go first? ❋ Anxious Black Woman (2007)
He said, You know, that crazy light-skin boy who was up at Wiltwyck with you and use to come here and have a party with Suzy Q. ❋ Claude Brown (1965)
"Every time I call him and I tell him I need light-skin Hispanic of that description, he always brings dark-skin," a Bronx homicide detective, Luke Waters, testified earlier this year, according to a court transcript. ❋ By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN (2011)
Groups of color internalize prejudices and enact them through colorstruck ideas about light-skin being more attractive than dark skin, or keen features being more attractive than broader ones. ❋ LatoyaPeterson (2010)
The passenger, described as a light-skin black man with collar-length braids, pointed a black handgun out the window and fired two shots, one of which struck the teenager in the back, Negrey said. stories with the most comments in the last 7 days. ❋ Unknown (2010)
