Does colorism and Black erasure affect dark skinned Black men, and if so, does it affect Black men in the same way that it affects Black women?
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I decided to address this topic, as I’ve had quite a few Black men tell me that colorism is a woman’s problem and it doesn’t affect Black men, so therefore Black women should leave Black men out of it.
Great video. As a black woman, I’m just tired.
Angel! You are a gorgeous “BLACK” man!!! I prefer the name Negro but will talk about that another day. I love black men. My Dad was black, I’m black, my babies are black…so on and so forth. I was the darkest one in my family, I was teased all the time by one of my older sisters… story short, my babies came out lighter than her son. So pay back is best served cold as they say. My mother changed the color of my hair when I was a teenager and said because I was too dark. Imagine what I had to accomplish from those words…my daughter is a light Carmel color. My mother (she was mad) that something she deemed so dark could make something she couldn’t. My children’s father is black too…but I wasn’t supposed to be able to accomplish that color daughter in her eyes. Crazy, right?. But true. And then one day she said, I see the way men look at you, and you don’t even notice. My beauty wasn’t skin deep Angel. I decided long ago to just love with my heart. That’s a beauty my mother will never have. The world didn’t hate my color, my own mother did. Why? Because my mother actually hated herself. It was never me…I was just the punching bag close enough to strike so she could feel comfortable in her own skin, all the while trying to make me uncomfortable in mine. It took some time for me to love me. But I do…I do now. And I also love my African American, Black, Negro, or whatever they want to call themselves ( but I love my brothers and sisters) we all have the same fight no matter the shade. The world doesn’t see the different shades of black whenever they decide to discriminate over housing, or a job, or anything else when it comes to their “white” counter -part’s survival. A white woman is the natural enemy to the black woman. Each gives birth to total opposite. I say enemy because if you look at it from the lioness’s point of view it’s about survival. Two Lions from a different species of origin. The white lioness always trying to steal the black lioness’s male cubs so her white female cub can strengthen her pride. The word (pride) was intentional. So enclosing, what better way to counter their position but for the (white) lion to lay with the black lioness so as to strengthen his pride. Nice video Brotha!
Kelley
You are right, dark-skinned men have a privilege that dark skin women do not. Dark skin men have been portrayed as tough and protectors so every race woman wants them. Dark-skinned women ironically have been portrayed the same leading us to be likened to black men but for us, it equates to being ugly and unattractive. Our feminity and vulnerability have not been shown or celebrated in mainstream media much.
There was a huge outrage against Zoe Saldana when she was set to play Nina Simone because she is one of those light skin Dominicans who doesn’t claim black often enough. She ignored the outrage and went on to do the movie. She later even apologised for taking that role from darker-skinned women.
Thank you for all this work that you do Angel to educate our community and leading us to love ourselves in all the beautiful shades that we come in. I also love that you lead us to unify across the diaspora.
Keep up the great work.
Love from South Africa
I’m darkskin and I prefer lightskin men but, I like everybody. I have noticed on TV Shows and Movies it’s always the lighter women and darker men with lighter daughter and darker son. If it is a darkskin woman they are most likely with a lightskin man. I don’t mind seeing that but, they need to switch it up.