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Originally Posted by aThievinGenIus
will they ever come back in style?
And if so how long do you plan on staying?
Medium Oak if that matters
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Originally Posted by aThievinGenIus
will they ever come back in style?
Originally Posted by mondaynightraw
Man, do you see the time? ain't nobody reading that
Illuztrious wrote:
Due to growing up as a military brat, race or skin shade was probably the furthest thing from anyone's minds. You were either American or German, we didn't even differentiate between white or black. I still remember the exact moment when that peaceful existence was shattered tho'. It was in VA which has to be capital of lightskinned people for obvious reasons. This young lady named Amber was the object of my desire. Lightskinned, long pretty hair, FRECKLES, always smelled good, etc. We were only in like 4th or 5th grade but I would've married her back then. Anyways I asked her to be my Valentines and she told me she didn't like dark skinned black people. This confused me for awhile because I really didn't see color at the time. Then things at home were terrible. My mother's ex husband was lightskinned along with his kids (my step-brothers and sisters). Dude would tell me I had to shower longer because I was darker, or I had to wait until everybody made their plate before I could make mine for dinner, and then make a comment about how dark I was, etc. At first I thought I was getting !$@*!@$ on because I was the only kid who wasn't his but after a couple thousand remarks concerining my skin color from him and his family it kinda started to set in that I was different.
yoooooooo, this is me right here...i always tell people when i was in germany there was no race...just american kids and german kids and i lived off base in a german neighborhood...my god parents are german and barely speak english...
my first day of school in VA a girl called me the N-word and it was a wrap from there...i lived in a white neighborhood in the burbs tho...she shattered my raceless world at that point...
some of those white kids were on some other stuff as far as race went...like we would all be cool one day and then we get to HS and its N-this and N-that...not all of them of course but enough for you toxat kids you thought you were cool with...
i can honestly say i never got picked on for being DS tho...from boys or girls...
we haven't nor are we going to. but see if we flip it on "darker" skinned people they get all upset and defensive, yet we yellow ones are "soft"Originally Posted by Swag4Days
Originally Posted by aThievinGenIus
will they ever come back in style?
And if so how long do you plan on staying?
Medium Oak if that matters
...And this is one of the things in that stays in the back of my head when it comes to society and how people think in terms of race and the like. It's so wrong to say anything about people that may be that much darker than we are, just because we're supposedly so fortunate to be light-skinned. Don't get me wrong, I'm proud of who I am, but it's more so pride in who I am and not as much as what I am. In that vein, I can relate to what General Johnson said earlier in this post.Originally Posted by dunks87
we haven't nor are we going to. but see if we flip it on "darker" skinned people they get all upset and defensive, yet we yellow ones are "soft"Originally Posted by Swag4Days
Originally Posted by aThievinGenIus
will they ever come back in style?
And if so how long do you plan on staying?
Medium Oak if that matters
That's probably why being light-skinned is such a big thing in my hometown back in Georgia. I know some of the local debutante clubs had a way of letting girls in back in the day where they did what was called "the paper bag test." Basically, if a girl was darker than a paper bag, she couldn't be a debutante. It's crazy how we treat our own people...Originally Posted by jthagreat
LOLOL was waitin for Illuztrious to see this thread.
i completely agree about the military aspect. when you come up in such diverse groups, The S!!! really doesnt matter. As i got into HS, the Race S!!! came into play, but by that time, i was mature/educated enough to see it as BS
As far as what complexion is black. I seen a thing on Oprah (dont judge me) and they divided the audience by whether you were darker then a brown paper bag...that S!!! always stuck with me for some reason....
but the way my faather raised me, if you got any black in you, NEGRO YOU black.
With all that said, its all jokes. S!!! in HS thats all i had for the Dark Skinned dudes "hatin on me cause im beatiful" (lol i cant help myself) but if you unable to recognize the ignorance in the jokes, then i truly feel sorry for you cause WE ALL have came to far, to allow our own "division" to be our downfall.
BUT ILL BE THE 1st To admit, Society, TV or what have does not give us many portrayals of Beautiful dark skinned women. and it dont help that in my mainly white area, the black girls fell into the lesbian phase....good day, IM Done.
Originally Posted by LESfamilia
That's probably why being light-skinned is such a big thing in my hometown back in Georgia. I know some of the local debutante clubs had a way of letting girls in back in the day where they did what was called "the paper bag test." Basically, if a girl was darker than a paper bag, she couldn't be a debutante. It's crazy how we treat our own people...Originally Posted by jthagreat
LOLOL was waitin for Illuztrious to see this thread.
i completely agree about the military aspect. when you come up in such diverse groups, The S!!! really doesnt matter. As i got into HS, the Race S!!! came into play, but by that time, i was mature/educated enough to see it as BS
As far as what complexion is black. I seen a thing on Oprah (dont judge me) and they divided the audience by whether you were darker then a brown paper bag...that S!!! always stuck with me for some reason....
but the way my faather raised me, if you got any black in you, NEGRO YOU black.
With all that said, its all jokes. S!!! in HS thats all i had for the Dark Skinned dudes "hatin on me cause im beatiful" (lol i cant help myself) but if you unable to recognize the ignorance in the jokes, then i truly feel sorry for you cause WE ALL have came to far, to allow our own "division" to be our downfall.
BUT ILL BE THE 1st To admit, Society, TV or what have does not give us many portrayals of Beautiful dark skinned women. and it dont help that in my mainly white area, the black girls fell into the lesbian phase....good day, IM Done.
co-signOriginally Posted by SoFreakinWavy
lemonade, light bright, high yellow, light skinned, yellow bone, red bone, white skin,
i been called em all.
Originally Posted by Illuztrious
8 March 1991 - The day New Jack City released. Also the day dark skinnned dudes came back into power. When Wesley Snipes stabbed ol' buddy in the hand and told G-Money to "sit yo $5 #++ down before I make change", the transfer of power was complete.