Are Dark Skin People in The Future? : 'You People', Kenya Barris & Erasure.

#kenyabarris #colorism #youpeople #darkskin
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[@dia9916]

their idea of “biracial” is so limited. Not every biracial looks like Lauren London or Zendaya

[@bunnywavyxx9524]

but it doesnt matter. you know what theyre trying to promote.

[@aliciamaria2730]

And at what generation are not longer biracial? It so silly.

[@sayitloudblcknproud]

Lauren and Zendaya are both so beautiful though! And yes, not all biracial people look like that.

[@theconsciousobserver6829]

It's not that their idea is limited, it's their preference

[@wrestlinganime4life288]

@Jai So much for "I don't see colour" and judging other by their content right HollyKKKwood?

[@Neo.Jordon]

Kenya Barris is a full blown colourist

[@ish19]

Fully! And he doesn’t even try to hide it in his media. At all. He hates darkskin and it’s apparent.

[@ladybluelotus]

Absolutely! He's the worst.

[@bigzaymadden]

We need a new term for people who are ADVANCED COLORIST. He is all the way lost

[@nikkinicole9271]

@The Social Flex…I agree, they need a new name. What about OTT Colorist (over the top)

[@bigzaymadden]

@@nikkinicole9271 😫😭😭😭 I’ll take it

[@ish19]

I knew that I was not bugging when I said I did not like this movie because of the underlying tones. When Jonah Hill said who he was dating to his best friend, she said “oh you got you a real black girl.” How in TF can we classify Lauren London, a lightskin biracial woman as a “real black girl”. The language is crazy!! And that is the messaging that they are trying to subtly push but it’s loud and in our faces.

[@---re9jc]

Fact!

[@MzCrayKray]

Yes the optics was not matching the words that was being said in that movie. Smh

[@aishaplummer2058]

🎯 I noticed

[@bigzaymadden]

I had to say it, but I think other black men are pushing the agenda more than white supremacy

[@bigzaymadden]

**hate

[@Skepticalskorpeo]

Kenya Barris is obsessed with light skin and I think it’s dangerous that he has the ability to shape society through his obvious bias art.

[@justmebeinghonest]

You're not forced to watch. Why do yall keep waiting on people to represent you the way you want to be represented ? Stop hoping on people and wanting them to represent what they don't want. They have the liberty to make the art they want

[@willettenorton2136]

Unfortunately, black people are the problem because we dont's stand up for our black people ore black families or young black people. What are we going to do about it. Seriously, what do you think? I think we only let people do what we allow them to do.....A little mad about it but what can we do

[@LoveLaRieXO]

“Art”. Erasure.

[@cah8124]

He and other people with influence are on a mission to wipe out black dna. I refuse to watch the show.

[@ShandaP018]

@@justmebeinghonest right I've seen an episode of black ish. It was corny and I don't like yara shahidis voice.

[@beabundantlyblessedtv5772]

It’s not dark skin people it’s dark skin women!!!!!!!!

[@simplymarie5434]

Couldn’t agree more

[@theenicolej]

Exactly 💯

[@DeLaTr0ll]

Not to takeaway from us black women but the same for dark skinned Asians. They rarely show them, look at Mindy Kaling she’s the same as Kenya.

[@sitoe9858]

Kaylin nah Mindy’s not as bad as Kenya, she made that new Netflix series starring Devi, a brown skinned Indian girl. Kenya Barris is out here making “Black AF” w Rashida Jones. Idek how to feel, erasure is f*cking traumatising. They’re essentially saying “we’d prefer it if you didn’t exist”. I need to go meditate

[@ricxster900]

I respectfully disagree as a darkskin black man who isn't stereotypically masculine or hood colorism does affect us. It tries to limit us to nothing but Mandingo warriors, comic relief or tragic black male heroes. Much love though I'm no trying to negate your suffering it is valid💯

[@jagirl_vendetta2197]

I feel so validated with this video. For years people have been calling me insecure/sensitive when I ask why the children of a BLACK family looked mixed???? The math isn’t mathing

[@suzygirl1843]

INVEST IN AFRICAN MOVIES, THEN!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@vmfjae1180]

I'm light/brown skin but I'm not blind. Remember My wife and kids, the dark skin girl being replaced by a biracial one, Claire I think. It was silly

[@natasharules6737]

But if the parents were, say, black and white interracial and the child looked unambiguously black they would probably notice

[@starzy154]

@@suzygirl1843 I'm not sure if mean African American or African but as an African most of the African movies I've seen feel like they were written by teenage boys going through an "alpha male" phase

[@suzygirl1843]

@@starzy154 But that's why YOU'RE the investor. You use YOUR money to decide what the end product is. Do away with these terrible alpha male movies and produce good movies that cater to women

[@MakaykayLAMB]

My question to Kenya Harris: when was the mixed race loook NOT IN??????? And maybe it’s cos I’m a brown girl but the way colorism is so prevalent in our community, all my family did was praise light skin and loose hair. So…..??? When was that look NOT IN? Bffr.

[@ebonyjackson3198]

That's what I was wondering also. Like, that has always been the preferred esthetic in the Black community, especially for women, from my experience.

[@andeelee1682]

I was wondering the same

[@beast9125]

The mixed aesthetic is wanted everywhere actually. In Latin America it is a a light biracial/multiracial Latina (half indigenous asiatic and coloniser European) as the standard, not the indigenous people or those of African descent. It’s not even a brown skinned/dark skinned mixed/multiracial person. So they are also very colourist and known to have a caste system in their cultures monitoring blood quantum and shades Same in Asia, they place those who are half East Asian/European at the top. That’s why a lot in China/Korea/Southeast Asia etc get surgery or skin bleach to look East Eurasian. Same in India it’s the white Aryan Indian mixed with original dravidian as the standard. Not the original. Even in Parts of Africa it’s a very light skinned mulatto look that’s placed on media throughout the continent really, and it’s usually the man thats dark.

[@theghostofumarskoolishere.4632]

@@beast9125 in Latin America it’s just straight up white as the standard nobody in white society actually wants to look mixed race.

[@PassportBrosAndBlondeManWeaves]

It’s BM fault when it comes to colorism in our community it’s been in the music for years just look at men like Lil Wayne and Kodak Black

[@mu3019]

The amount of hate on dark skin femininity and in general is disgusting

[@imthebossmermaid3648]

Right.

[@amarauzo7650]

I just realized Kenya Barry’s made mixed ish. This man is obsessed af

[@chriss.8349]

And Blackish, Grownish, and Black Asf. Yup thats him

[@aishaplummer2058]

He really is

[@JulianSteve]

Hey has a self-hating issue. I believe that one of his parent’s mixed-race and he got that mixed-race agenda from… Or a few of his self-hating family members entertained the nonsense🤦🏾‍♂️😭‼️

[@sadievirtue1636]

Didn't he make "Blackish" too? Because those characters were light AF... except for that one little girl, the younger daughter!

[@katherinesavarese6009]

Wooooow I didn't realize!

[@havilynwakuche]

Not to mention that this casting of family’s is changing people’s perceptions of genetics because when Beyoncé had Blue everyone was expecting a mix raced/light skinned child…as if that how genetics works. The fact that people are surprised by something completely normal is scary

[@queenbae6396]

Same thing's happening with Rihanna's son, people expected his features to be bi racial. Light eyes etc.

[@JaidaPooh9339]

They expected her to look like Solange's son

[@rejectionisprotection4448]

That's odd. It's as if people forgot that Jay Z was the father.

[@rejectionisprotection4448]

@@queenbae6396 Whaaaaaat?

[@user-dv3kq3rm4h]

I saw a few non-blk people saying this stuff online but surely blk people didn't believe this? Not even Beyonce looks as 'mixed' as she portrays- she's nowhere near her mother's phenotype and has been whitewashed in the media with lighting, the signature blonde hair etc. for years now. Go back to her Destiny's Child days she is unmistakably a light skinned blk woman with golden brown skin and most likely 4a hair type.

[@senoracheapee1864]

I think many black men are like Kenya and hope that there will be no dark skin people in the future- especially no dark skin women

[@chanellejones6652]

I was diagnosed with a chronic illness( thats manageable) and I just found it strange that the wyt female doctor was discouraging me from ever having kids... basically said I had bad genes... but would she tell another woman that.

[@libfuzzy4629]

Alot of them are mentally ill and hate the way that they themselves look

[@charmaineespeut4627]

@@chanellejones6652 You should report her

[@cmg25]

Scalding. ☕️☕️☕️

[@ChelseaStonerrTV]

@@chanellejones6652 same I have heart failure and was told I’d never have a baby my son is 4 now. But yes they go above and beyond to keep black women from having babies isn’t that how Planned Parenthood started was that they had campaigns to go into inner city schools and promote birth-control in the 80s and 90s during the crack epidemic I don’t think it’s too far-fetched to think that they want the birth rate to go down, especially because their birth rate is dramatically, decreasing as well given that young white people are dying from fentanyl overdose in America. That seems to be hitting them hard as far as keeping the race alive so the next best thing is to mix races and keep black women from reproducing faster than a white woman that might be why our mortality rate is high during childbirth and we’re three times as likely to die. Just a thought I was having I don’t know.

[@Wakemonroe]

Nia Longs character in you people is assumed multiracial as well. When they were at the diner Eddie’s character said something along the lines “she got that from you white grandfather” or something along those lines. It wasn’t necessary to the plot. Kenya Barris has big obsession with color and being mixed. All his shows have the same type.

[@AzizaMiller]

Facts!

[@cmg25]

oooof

[@kikibara1]

Literally couldn’t help himself!!

[@queenbae6396]

I see why they kinda did though, how can they explain someone as phenotypically African as Eddie and Nia birthing a child as bi racial looking (not just lightskin) as Lauren in the movie. Throw back genes is really the only way.

[@LimiLimi7]

She was a reverse quadroon. She has a white grandparent, but people say 3/4 black is black.

[@SYLV_IN]

You know what? I understand completely even as a brown/dark-skinned black man coming to Europe and telling people about my afro Caribbean background, I realized that I wasn't what they had in mind when they thought about what people from my Island looked like. When I said I'm from Martinique, people would tell me I'm "lying"???? Cause I'm too dark lol... in their minds people from my island are supposed to look biracial but it's because the only people who had the funds necessary to start a new life in Europe, therefore, becoming the face of my island where those biracial kids. My island is entirely black but again the colonizer wanna see himself in those they oppress

[@Maki-00]

People are even ignorant of black people in South and Central America. They really trip when they see a black person speaking Spanish or Portuguese. Once, I had a Puerto Rican coworker (a brown-skinned black man) and our other coworker (a black woman) asked where he was from. When he said that he was from Puerto Rico, born in San Juan, she asked if he was “full-blooded” Puerto Rican, as if “Puerto Rican” was a race. 🙄

[@Naajzidah]

I appreciate the way you wrote this.

[@MzCrayKray]

I get that all the time. I remember I was Spanish this lady ask me how do I know how to speak HER language? 🙄

[@JulianSteve]

@@Maki-00 YES‼️Some non-Black Latinos have a habit of saying dumb shit like that. Aka, being racist. Or some are “accidentally” ignorant. Still does not excuse the ignorance🤷🏾‍♂️💯

[@leigh4326]

You hit the nail on the head! I’ve been struggling to articulate this but it’s the same for me as a South African Black woman because it’s only been white South Africans who travelled before us, most people think the country especially their beloved Cape Town is for them. Also majority of the travelers who have been descending to our shores for years have always been white from Europe or the US. Then they bring up how Trevor Noah mentioned we are mixed etc. it’s crazy because the same people will know Nelson Mandela but I guess they forget why they even known about him. Or they nitpick me cause if I’m not too dark then I must be mixed so then I must start and tell them about the oldest tribe being the KhoiSan etc 😅 it’s exhausting but I now understand it’s because of Hollywood and their poor predication 😢

[@Divine_Beauty-uh9xi]

The erasure is not towards dark people just dark women, especially if her hair isn’t loose curls or straight.

[@queenbae6396]

facts

[@LiterallyTho]

The gag is we can erase dark skin men too. But I think they want that. Dark skin black men don’t want to be dark.

[@ismarjovannypalaciosmena.1701]

Dark-skinned men would not exist if dark-skinned women do not exist. The dark-skinned man would need the dark-skinned woman to procreate dark-skinned sons. A dark-skinned man may have a dark son with a light woman, but that a son that his son produces with another light-skinned woman is dark-skinned also would be very few probable.

[@BeautifulEarthJa]

I love how these men got all up in their feelings about the National BIRACIAL Association (NBA)----what do you think happened when dark skin men ALL pair with white/nonblack (lightskinned) women? Black men disappear too....but they still be saying a dark-skinned man is 'winning' for procreating with non-dsw. The fantasy they have in these movies where dsbm can exist without dsbw is delusional.

[@TheSmily4ever]

@@BeautifulEarthJa yeahh they were all surprised about the draft too when most of the the dudes were entirely biracial 🤣🤣 it was funny asf because dark skin dude were complaining on twitter about the lack of representation 😂

[@serenatsukino5252]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who saw a problem with a biracial woman playing a 'black" character! I told my friends this (who aren't black) and they said "oh I thought she was black, I didn't know she was mixed" when she clearly looks biracial! This really does prove your point about the erasure of black people in favor of the progression of mixed people. If she's black then I must be super negro.

[@andreasmith3638]

I wanna see her in the next slave movie out in the cotton fields!!

[@aliciamaria2730]

Why are they not Black????

[@serenatsukino5252]

@@aliciamaria2730 They are, but they're also white. If biracial people cannot play white characters, why should they play black characters?

[@ByteMwen]

They chose a mixed-race actress to play the daughter of two black characters, then tried to style it out using the 'white granddaddy genes' bandaid.

[@nietzsche948]

@@aliciamaria2730 SIMPLE, mixed people are just that MIXED!!!!! Unless your FATHER and MOTHER look like Denzel Washington and his TRULY BLACK WIFE, YOU ARE NOT BLACK PERIOD!!!!!! The ONE DROP BLOOD RULE is a WHITE SUPREMACIST LIE perpetrated by STUBBORN DELUSIONAL WHITE people who REFUSED to ACCEPT THE REALITY that BLACK MEN can have sex with WHITE WOMEN and vice versa resulting in the WHITE or Black women getting pregnant and GIVING BIRTH TO A MIXED BABY!!!!! Any BLACK PEOPLE buying into the ONE DROP BLOOD RULE is ACCEPTING THE LIE OF WHITE SUPREMACY because this LIE was a COVERT WAY of INSULTING BLACK PEOPLE by treating BLACK SKIN as if it's TOXIC WASTE!!!!

[@leanysealvarado7499]

Recently I learned that the paper bag test was administered to black women for admission into HBCUs. Men didn’t have to be fair skinned. So, you are correct when you say that the woman are expected to be light skinned.

[@icomeinpeace3756]

I wonder how BW aid in this practice by singing to the rooftops how they love dark skin men and they like their men black

[@UrbanAlchemystic]

Interesting! Had no idea I thought the brown paper bag test was for both genders

[@bunnywavyxx9524]

@@icomeinpeace3756 black women accepting darkskin black men doesn't aid in anything, it's not about hating on lighter people, that's an actual preference. However what op is talking about IS hateful and aiding in colorism. Stop trying to pin colorism on BW liking their own skin tone, it's BM majority of the time and you know it.

[@taylorwaylor8965]

I definitely saw throwback Howard pictures on Pinterest and noticed how light they were. The men weren’t as light as the women but they definitely weren’t the darkest. You also saw a lot of light/fair skin within the black fraternities and sororities and the founders were light or brown skinned. I also noticed that upper class or middle class blacks were mostly light skinned back in the day too

[@ContemporaryWild]

@@taylorwaylor8965from what I’ve read the ‘black universities’ were created when segregation was still around and the first one was created by a mixed couple who wanted their biracial child to be able to attend university. So back then it seems it was biracial people who had this privilege.

[@BlackGirlWithSocialAnxiety]

I feel like light skin/ "exotic" women are being forced on us. Ugh I can’t even go on IG or Pinterest without being flooded with women who look nothing like me ,I’m really worried for young dark skin girls coming up and having to constantly see this imagery

[@nogooddeedgoesunpunishedng3814]

So sad this dark skin/light skin thing is such an issue. It is ingrained in so many of our families. I noticed a lot of dark-skinned sisters with very light-skinned men and dark-skinned men with very light skinned women. It has never been an issue with me as a Black Woman, but this obsession with skin tone in the Black Community shows how mentally unhealthy we are as a race of people as a result of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

[@BlackGirlWithSocialAnxiety]

@@nogooddeedgoesunpunishedng3814 absolutely. It’s astonishing, I wonder if we will ever get past this

[@mlspeopleshoulddateeachoth6940]

Dark skin men are being forced down their throats and they are all in lalaland believing it’s their natural preference

[@TeaWitcher]

!!!!!!!!!

[@cvzdez]

I am rarely on ig so.

[@roni7172]

Any film with Eddie Murphy in it, is going to be colourist.

[@vanellesmith4598]

Okay. Coming to America!!?!

[@jayebird1138]

@Vanelle Smith was still colorist. Just rewatch it and pay close attention to the treatment of Patrice vs Lisa, and how they're characterized. Also notice how Lisa, the main woman and love interest, was light skinned despite her father and sister both being dark. Even in the sequel, look at how Lisa was characterized, vs how Lavelle's mother was characterized. Even in 2021, they still clung to the outdated "loud hoe ass dark skinned baby mama" trope as a way to characterize her.

[@vanellesmith4598]

@@jayebird1138 Wait. Because I was agreeing with you. My okay was like.. okaaaaay! Lol. That's why I called that movie out. I was young watching it like ummm... They mad our chocolate sis look like a desperate hoe. I hated it. My mother actually was the one who sat me down and was like, "pay attention". Eddy Murphy been a Koon. He has never minded taking our dark skin dollars tho. Have you ever heard the chain gang songs from the Jim Crow era? This has been going on unhealed for centuries.

[@roni7172]

@@vanellesmith4598 colourist.

[@huhyep5604]

​@@vanellesmith4598disrespectful to Africans

[@auset1276]

Read some Octavia Butler - she puts dark skinned people in the future, all her lead characters are sci-fi black women. Dr Frances Cress Welsing for understanding at the deepest level if you havent already. Ur makeup is absolutely radiant, keep shining inside & out 💜💙💜

[@adams8830]

Noted. 📝📝📝

[@sandrasentertainment6634]

Thxx- haven’t heard of her

[@CarmenSD]

Which Octavia Butler puts dark skinned people in the future?

[@Thelynxtribe]

@@selenecelestial6039 Octavia Butler’s book kindred has been made into a series on Hulu with a dark/brown skinned woman lead but she falls in love with a Caucasian man

[@auset1276]

@@CarmenSD All of them. Parable of the Sower good one to start with. It hit New York bestseller lists in 2020 cause it basically predicted Trump & society breakdown we are seeing now.

[@dollyrevenge98]

I noticed this as well and it's very unsettling/disturbing. Lately, any time a movie or show has a black female teenager it's ALWAYS a light skin biracial teenager with curly hair. Never dark skin with kinky hair.

[@Aquaaaaa777]

Thank you so much for making this video because this really has been bothering me. While was watching all of my favorite romantic chic flicks from my childhood I was thinking why don’t us black women (especially dark and brown skin) get to be the main character of a cute, sweet, and cheesy love story that isn’t involved with violence or being involved in the hood. Why can’t we be loved, desired and play the roles of “innocent”, “shy”, “hopeless romantic” types? That’s why as a child I was insecure about being a black girl. Thank goodness I absolutely adore and admired my melanin and love being a black women. I love your videos. 💗💗💗🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾

[@MzCrayKray]

I would love to see a black version of To All the Boys I've Loved. I thought that was really nicely done and not to hyper sexual for the age they were portraying.

[@aliyahharris7698]

Issa rae be trying

[@libfuzzy4629]

That's because many black males dont like you nor do they like themselves . The only films they like to create are dumb hood/violent films and they won't put a beautiful dark skin woman as the lead

[@DeLaTr0ll]

@@aliyahharris7698 I have to give it to Issa.

[@bmartin4549]

Girls come on over to the literature side of the tracks lol, forget these movies and shows. There are PLENTY of books being written featuring the characters you want to see. Let’s support these authors and then maybe they’ll get greenlit for shows and the casting will be done correctly.

[@thecryptoqueen215]

It’s funny because I’ve been noticing this way back since childhood. I think the 1st time it dawned on me was watching Coming To America as a really young girl. And seeing 2 sisters… 1 being the sweet, lovable (lite skin) 1 that Eddie & the Jerri curl guy fight over the whole movie & the other being her dark skin little sister who was wild, jealous & ghetto & thinkin A. How tf did James from Good Times get such drastically different looking daughters? & B. Why is the dark 1 the bad 1? The picked over 1? Then I then I kinda just continued to see this thru out my childhood. When it happens like this EVERYTIME at some point u gotta admit that there’s a plan or agenda w/ this. Smh!

[@soniabellamy1950]

Your point is so valid. Sadly, Mr. Murphy seems to be a perpetrator of this type of colorism. I see that in some of his other movies too.

[@seismicvertigo345]

I noticed that too and I didn't like it. I wasn't even feeling the light skin one honestly. I was yelling at the tv he should have picked the other one

[@allmylifeihadtofight9815]

When you watch Norbit I noticed that too and I love that movie smh.

[@TheNimothy]

This is why I love you !!! I was so confused when I realised that Lauren Londons character was supposed to be a black woman. I couldn’t finish the movie. I’m seeing this same trope over and over and over and I can’t stand to even see it any more

[@toomuchinformation]

You couldn't finish the movie; I won't even start it.

[@sheh.9163]

I mean I know it’s fiction, but in what world does a Dark skinned Eddie Murphy and Brown skinned Nia Long create 2 biracial curly haired children. Even he made a joke in that scene when we first see him about no one having kinky hair anymore which was ironic

[@cosmiccrush22]

boycott seriously, if your not including us people, we wont include you in our life.

[@JulianSteve]

@@cosmiccrush22 I agree with you. The film needs to be boycotted. It’s dangerous the erasure. I am sorry for the actors, actresses, and the rest of the staff of the film… This film is not okay🤷🏾‍♂️💯

[@mockingbxrd]

I dont think its good to continue watching a youtube channel like this. She makes fair points but she is very divisive and fear mongering on "replacement". The only thing constantly consuming content like this will do is just make you bitter and think every person on this planet hates dark skin women.

[@Jabari-vm6jq]

It's so important that you pointed out intermarrying within the diaspora. It's become so commonplace that we almost take it for granted. Africans marrying Black Americans. BA's marrying Afro-Caribbeans. Afro-Caribbeans marrying Africans (especially in the U.K.). Like they're really trying to act as if interracial marriages are more common than inter-ethnic marriages within the Black Diaspora.

[@queenbae6396]

You're right about inter ethnic marriages are big thing now, I'm based in the UK and growing up there was a divide nowadays it's very common for Africans to marry black Caribbeans and so on. But I will say interracial marriages are promoted way more than inter ethnic and they're glamourised way more.

[@Jabari-vm6jq]

@@queenbae6396 I agree with you that interracial marriages are definitely more glamorized and promoted.

[@doll.ov.poetrii4682]

True! My father is Ghanaian and my mother is African American. I'm a "halfrican" married to a Haitian man. No one ever really acknowledges these pairings but they're happening like crazy in the diaspora. Intercultrual marriages are big now.

[@Chloeeezyyy]

It depends on where you are in the usa tbh. In New York, HoustoN or Miami. Not really anywhere else. But see your point.

[@wrestlinganime4life288]

@@queenbae6396 Honestly interracial doesn't make sense,because we're not hobbit or elves, we're juts 1 race, one species ect. Inter ethnic makes more sense because everyone is part of an ethnicity. So if you're a Yoruba person and marry an Akan or Zulu, that still count as inter ethnic or racial marriage since we're talking 2 completely different ethnic groups and culture.

[@arin1211]

I live in Oregon and I can telllllll you no one has made me feel more uglier than the black men in Oregon. They don’t even hide their disgust of black women. I made the decision for my own mental and spiritual health to stop chasing people who don’t value me. It opened me up to my meet my supportive husband and my wonderful son. It’s not what imagined but I’m so happy to have them in my life.

[@rizzybone964]

I’ve always wanted to visit Oregon but it gives me “Get Out” vibes. But I’m happy you found love and someone who treats you right💜

[@DeLaTr0ll]

Yeah, I’m noticing the hostility more and more and the red pill community isn’t helping. Go where you are celebrated not tolerated.

[@learningalot231]

Yet they come from a long line of black womanhood. 😜

[@rainicewaller6210]

If you black and live in Oregon, male or female, black love isn't high on the priority list. It's Oregon.

[@selwatchesyt]

@@rainicewaller6210Not a priority and hostility are two different things.

[@MzCrayKray]

One of the cringey, odd, bad optics, ironic, makes no sense scenes in that movie was when Eddie Murphy makes his first appearance in the movie. He starts complaining that all the black people in the cafe who work working, eating, and walking around had hair textures that was too loose. Then he goes on to say that he has the nappiest hair in the room. He (Eddy Murphy who does not date nappy headed nor darkskinned women) had that line in a movie while sitting next to a biracial woman with loose textured curls who is portraying a black woman with two darkskinned non ambiguous Pro Black parents. 🙄 Like please. Smh it was just so ignorant. Meanwhile the wife was wearing wigs and weaves and straight hair the entire movie and they are supposed to be so very Muslim and Pro Black. Like stop the foolery. Smh

[@olidoce2348]

Yaaaaa. That’s crazy af

[@bigbanknewyork3655]

Eddie saying it was so ironic to me. He hasn't dated a woman his color since elementary school lol

[@tenacioustrees.8737]

@@bigbanknewyork3655 And he made that disgusting movie that was nothing but a huge diss towards plus sized dark skinned black women

[@user-dv3kq3rm4h]

He did the same thing in Grownish where Chloe and Halle were talking about never being chosen because they're not light skinned, like huh? He creates these BS lying narratives because they're a part of his own biased stream of consciousness.

[@DorothyDandridge]

I’m confused with your pint here because Nia Long who played Eddi’s wife is a dark skin woman

[@nicolefranklin4511]

Can we add how this shows up in our literature too. So many black books go into detail about how the female protagonist had loose curls, or light skin, or light eyes. Or they use someone light skinned on the cover art. They also love to make the women “creole” to explain the features they cherry picked thank you for this. I feel like I’m screaming into a void half the time.

[@nicolefranklin4511]

The other thing too is how Spain in their colonial approach had this approach of “improving the race” by getting whiter and white (you’ll have to fact check me because I don’t have the specifics) but that’s high key the narrative black Hollywood is doing too. Want love? Want money? Want happiness? Be light or marry lighter. There really is nothing new under the sun.

[@bmartin4549]

I think it happens less in literature overall though. Especially nowadays I have come across far more stories written about unambiguously black women.

[@tcrijwanachoudhury]

As an english major, I'm confused. I take it were talking abt YA "novels" and not Toni Morrison or Audre Lorde and other prominent black authors ?

[@MzCrayKray]

Biracial women have always portrayed black characters especially in the 90s. They were even made to look darker and keep their hair short or in braided styles so they could look "blacker". If you notice a lot of them look lighter now and grew their hair out. They are not bleaching they just stopped tanning and wearing dark makeup to get roles. This is why the biracials of the 90s either are fully embracing their biracialness and othering themselves because they don't have to pretend to be a black girl to be seen OR they are unraveling at the seams and breaking down like Thandiwe Newton because they are new biracials in town and they not being pedestalized and giving all the roles anymore. lol

[@MayMay-el4wg]

You need to actually study the age of black cinema in film and television. African American women have always been chosen based on the beauty preferences of white men (light skin, slim, long natural hair meaning no obvious kinky hair). BM followed suit (Ebony, Essence & Jet mags) showcasing similar women. Popular clubs like the Cotton Club which featured mixed and lightskin women. I find it funny that so many constantly call every lightskin and/or curly haired BW a biracial or mixed when that’s always been the norm in Black America. The black community’s long standing feud with colorism is because we’ve always had light skin and mixed people who are culturally African American. 🤷🏽‍♀️ There will always have darker people though. It’s just a science prediction that there will be more people ambiguous 🎉

[@pnklfeflx7332]

@@MayMay-el4wg 😒

[@princesschanel469]

@@MayMay-el4wg That first part isn’t always true, at all. When a white man wants a black girl he usually chooses the darkest one. If they wanted a girl with looser long hair, light skin & light eyes they would’ve gotten a real white woman, and not a copy. Mixed/light skinned women are not a hot commodity to white people.

[@cmg25]

👀

[@fae3821]

I instantly thought of Stacy Dash

[@bunnywavyxx9524]

"almost like lightskin is a feminine trait" EXACTLY. And that is why colorism doesn't affect black men regardless if they're dark or light. Because the requirement for paleness is only a necessity for women to be seen as feminine. Not men.

[@hmmm2564]

This is false

[@preciousmonique4060]

A regular viewer but I had to comment to let you know that your makeup and hair is definitely stealing and taking over your show. 🥰

[@suzygirl1843]

INVEST IN AFRICAN MOVIES, THEN!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@yinkaoyekunle9533]

She is super fine and gorgeous

[@sibusisiweshabala3366]

Braaa!! She doing the most ❤it’s so gorgeous

[@MollieandDollies]

We NEED more black girls in mass media!!! MORE. All over the world.

[@CopperCulture]

There are plenty

[@theconsciousobserver6829]

Oh man you know your channel needs some strength to it when a white woman comes and starts trying to play friendly.

[@Cleanwhitebeige95]

Why everyone has to be Black for diversity? What about arab Latinos Asians Indian Persians ?? How many other races you see?? Hollywood is literally more than half blank and no other race is represented ! Blacks are so entitled and narcissistic

[@LiahB]

The crazy thing is media knows this and still won’t do it…

[@misst7923]

Girlfriends is another one that really annoys me, there's 2 biracial people in the friendship group but only one person's "biracialness" is acknowledged while the other acts as a fully black woman 😑

[@onetallgirl78]

Tracey Ellis Ross couldn't get casted as a lead in traditionally white roles, so she changed her last name to her mother's then started playing "black" roles in black productions to get started as an actress in lead roles. Let's keep it real, Tracey's father was a big casting agent and she is Dianna Ross's daughter, so there's another part of nepotism that plays into her casting.

[@EssenceRendered]

Tracey speaks out on the colorism in the industry.

[@shelsmithss]

When I was in China, no one believed I was american “because i was too dark to be american” it was insane

[@gravityclarity]

They always do that in media--the kids are mixed/biracial looking even if both parents are dark. There will be more racially ambiguous people in the future. But I think there will still be plenty of dark skinned people. Everything you are saying is accurate!

[@obinnamorton773]

Yes since childhood with My Brother and Me and My Wife and Kids. It's nice to see Black women who call out the BS. So many given our general plight do not stand up against this.

[@Yinskiiii]

The daughter will be biracial while the son is ten shades darker so fkn weird smh

[@imthebossmermaid3648]

You should watch “my dad is a bounty hunter” the sister is darker than the brother.

[@EssenceRendered]

Yea yts will be mixed…… let’s go on and expose the truth now!

[@msthang5366]

I have never messed with Kenya Barris shows. I love your mind!! You’re so BEAUTIFUL, enlightening as well as brilliantly intelligent..

[@iceBurg881]

I just don’t get why they push the narrative that “mixed” people have one “ambiguous” look. Biracial doesn’t not equate to light skin, nor half white. It’s a frustrating experience as a dark skinned biracial person. If you don’t look that way, people don’t count you as a real mixed person 😭😂

[@mockingbxrd]

this is why this channel can be too divisive. There isnt this set biracial look with light skin, colored eyes, loose curly hair. You can have a biracial child that looks completely white or black. There are biracial people that are as dark as her and have kinky hair. Are you really going to say they are not "black" at that point and dont share the same experience?

[@rosejames5172]

I have never seen a biracial that doesn't have some or at least one feature from their non-black parent. Biracials may have light skin, light eyes , loose curls, Non black facial structures, etc.

[@ismarjovannypalaciosmena.1701]

Mixed people who are children of people of different phenotypes have mixed looks. A dark-skinned person who is mixed of an Indian person and an African person would have ambiguous racially physical appearance. Mixed people of light skin and white heritage have been exposed more frequently through media for being close to whiteness plain and simple.

[@UrbanAlchemystic]

Yeah that's f***** up you guys need representation as well they're even scared to use you guys for these projects

[@pietrycranberry6621]

@@ismarjovannypalaciosmena.1701 Yes and no. Like the Chinese, Japanese, Korea and Asians with a similar enough phenotype,you do have African looking people outside the continent that if mixed with an African person,the offspring would look less "biracial."

[@MzCrayKray]

I was just thinking to myself today I cannot remember seeing a lightskinned or mixed blackman in a strong black male father figure role. He is usually the side kick, the wise aleck, the bachelor, single, or can't get a girl, etc. The only father figure I can remember is the guy who played Smart Guys Dad and Sinbad's character in A Different World. Yet they are single guys/Single Parents. You don't really see them in a Nuclear Family role with a black woman. They never "black people come in all colors" them in these roles. Only for the women can a black nuclear family have a biracial portrayed as the wife or daughter.

[@ahub87]

I think Uncle Phil on “Fresh Prince” was the lightest they ever went

[@lifeis2171]

Funny....SMH why do you think this is

[@anndeecosita3586]

@@ahub87 Sherman Hemsley aka George Jefferson and Deacon Frye was lighter than Uncle Phil. 😂

[@senoracheapee1864]

I swear I say “if we really examined the first black to do things in history, we would see that they were the first biracial to do …” all the damn time!!

[@doll.ov.poetrii4682]

If you search "black" on any search engine it pulls up a bunch of biracials for just about EVERY category. I naturally look at the results and think to myself " Um, I'm pretty sure I searched for BLACK PEOPLE. WTF IS THIS??".

[@katherinesavarese6009]

It needs to be said! Not enough people realize!

[@Jabari-vm6jq]

The very open secret that we've known to be true all this time but we just refuse to talk about it honestly as a community.

[@mockingbxrd]

obviously because mixed race people were able to have the most opportunities. That is just a very divisive useless comment.

[@jam6920]

@fayelis you must be mixed and a woman scared of losing her pedestal among fully black people to be throwing the words "divisive" and "bitter" at bw under a space FOR dark skinned bw like your whole livelihood depended on it 😂 I asked you who you where under another comment, but I don't need your answer. Well, this explains your limited range on the subject! Btw, calling out our erasure is not fear-mongering. It has been happening

[@yujuy.1329]

blk women it is time to love yourselves. it is time.

[@JoyCassi]

Lol what does that mean? Can you elaborate.

[@hope3290]

What does this have to do with the video?

[@rosejames5172]

Don't you mean black men and women

[@yujuy.1329]

@@rosejames5172 what bm do is not my business.

[@success4life03]

I liked that series on hbo with Jessica the comedian and the dark skinned man and they had dark skinned kids but that’s the only one I can think of in recent memory. This stuff is so insidious bc the idea that everyone will eventually look like zendaya is not science, it’s faux science. All biracial Black kids are not light! Mejorar la raza as a strategy only worked for them bc they committed mass r*pe and g*nocide. It’s scary bc seeing stuff like this definitely makes me feel like they’re trying to lay the groundwork for more antiblack violence in years to come.

[@JulianSteve]

Well written. Thank you🙌🏾‼️

[@carolinegardner8214]

It won’t succeed the future is based on their fake matrix and not reality. More biracial people are smart enough not to be used by WS they mate with each other or white people which means they will also go extinct.

[@rockpopinfly1]

That's so true I'm a dark skin woman from Trinidad and Tobago and when I came to America I was shocked that people did not believe me to be from Trinidad and Tobago, cause they said they have never seen a dark skin person from Trinidad. Kenya Barris is representing himself because that's how his family is.

[@queenbae6396]

They think every woman from Trinidad and Tobago looks like Nicki Minaj

[@rockpopinfly1]

@@queenbae6396 that’s so true and I honestly don’t understand why? She is just one individual and it’s a whole country.

[@destinytripplett7460]

And I feel like that’s the reason why the media is constantly trying to push black people against each other as well. You see this stuff everywhere now. Most NFL/NBA (black males) are dating non-black women. You see it on commercials everywhere. I think about this everyday.

[@chanellejones6652]

I think I'm one of those leftover black women, that got looked over... average and can take care of myself. But that damn "strong black woman" bs comes out. Why do I have to be on guard, and their "preferences" are allowed to be "soft"

[@destinytripplett7460]

@@chanellejones6652 don’t ever feel that way love. Don’t ever feel as though you’re not good enough simply because the race of men that looks like you looks over you. Believe me I know exactly how you feel I would get picked on by numerous black boys. They’d call me ugly and make fun of my nose because it’s big. I’m a black woman with African features. It did a number on me and still till this day I find myself thinking,what’s wrong with me? But I had tell myself that I am worth something. It doesn’t matter how anyone else views me, I know that I am beautiful. God made me this way for a reason, and I shouldn’t change it. I don’t know you personally, but I’m here to tell you to always think highly of yourself. NEVER EVER let your confidence drop, and continue to look good and feel good about yourself. It all starts with you💕💕.

[@libfuzzy4629]

The media isn't pushing black people against each other, many black male athletes get with non black women because they view them as trophys and they want mixed kids lol

[@destinytripplett7460]

@@libfuzzy4629 lol yeah that too

[@mysteriesphanto3528]

And y’all still wanna believe they are doing all of this just because your skin color?? It’s much deeper then that they know something about black people that they don’t wanna tell you

[@irvens6143]

Hollywood thinks we're stupid.

[@doll.ov.poetrii4682]

As a collective... we are pretty stupid. You'd be surprised at how many black people are buying into their narrative all because they chose not to abandon the one drop rule.

[@besthotchocolate]

When I get on, I vow to tell our stories properly, especially the uglys one that the entire community tiptoes around. Dark skin & Brown black women will always be the lead of MY stories. And so it is. GREAT BREAKDOWN MAYOWA✨

[@reallyreal7630]

Before you'll get on, the illuminati will be at your neck to either join them or abandon this beautiful dream of yours. If you join them, you'll have to be casting mix blacks, light skin browns or straight whites. If you don't, you get punishment. So it's either you storbornly cast your dream black as main character and accept your punishment or you do what they say and avoid trouble. The world hate of black people is coming from satan himself if you don't know. Stay away from Hollywood and fame. They'll turn you against black people. You have no idea.

[@franksanchez1716]

As we all should

[@JO-fk5ho]

Back in my twitter days, I remember arguing about dark skinned women in media. You’ll see dark skin girls when they’re 7years and younger…we disappear until we’re 30-40plus…then at the elderly ages. The marketing is around diversity in pre k to 2nd grade which ,by general metrics always has the most robust representation compared to other age groups, our imagery is excused during adolescence through early womanhood (years that are typically associated with themes of sexual maturation to attraction- an essential journey defining ascendence into womanhood) then we magically reappear becoming the sheroes, femme fetales, often previously/not romantically partnered, often solitary. Or the Cicely archetype. The tropes are clear. Also going back to the idea of biracial to multiracial people’s feelings of not being accepted into the black community…which always comes as tried and true as a stage irony to my black ass because they’re, have been, and even in future building of public imaginary, literally the public faces of blackness

[@Morenita570]

What the lie racials are really saying when they whine about not being accepted in the B l a c k community is that they couldn’t 1. Take a job from you 2. Make money off of you 3. Steal from you 4. Use you as a come up or stepping stool

[@shaniasmith9999]

YES I’ve notice this too. Thank you. It’s very strategic. They make the teen heartthrob daughter and the wonderful wife light skin then they make the tiny daughter and old women darker skin. They take us out of the desirable beauty roles. It’s in Proud family, the Cosby show, blackish, my wife and kids. So many shows

[@cygnetlake8017]

And we are literally at a point where Biracial gets to represent Biracial and Biracial gets to represent Black in Media and not enough people find that WILD.

[@yumaikai]

I'm utterly miffed by any biracial person who says they aren't accepted by black folk as well. We literally HAD to accept them as they were our children and the like (especially speaking of slavery). They've always had a home in the black community on top of holding a coveted spot in our community if they looked a certain way.

[@vanellesmith4598]

So. So true. Thank you for this analysis.

[@joywebb6964]

I'm a dark-skinned black woman. Took me decades to learn to love myself. My personal experience I've dated dark-skinned and light-skinned the men. My son's father who is deceased was mixed with Puerto Rican and black. My son came out on the lighter side. It would always bothered him that most people will ask if I was his real mother and he would say yes. Later on he would ask me why do people ask that stupid. And I told him that people just see color. I teach my son to love everyone no matter what skin tone they are or what ethnicity they are.

[@theconsciousobserver6829]

You're teaching your son a mistake that will put him at a disadvantage. I don't care who doesn't like it. Black men need to be raised to love Black peoples exclusively and have residual respect for others. But all this "love is blind" bs is just some secret white supremacy propaganda that you sistas have embraced just like you embrace everything whites say is okay. Love is not blind, love requires sight and consideration and if these white women can't see your son for who he is historically, culturally, genetically, divinely and otherwise, then they are ignoring the best parts of your son and imposing their imagination and their beliefs on him. I see this all the time so I know what I'm talking about. You Black women are off the chain and you need to come back home to your men. Period (as y'all like to say).

[@joywebb6964]

@@theconsciousobserver6829 not sure if you read my whole comment I'm teaching my son who was Puerto Rican and black to love all people no matter what color they are or what ethnicity they are. And how other people view my son I don't have no control over that but with the raising of my son I do have control on on how he should treat people no matter where they come from. My son knows that he's he's black because he has a black mother and his father was half so he's very aware of who he is. To me your comment is very negative. But thanks for your opinion enjoy your day

[@Sun_shines]

I noticed this as a child. I would see the typical dark skin Black man but Dark skin Black women only appeared in films or shows with slavery, racism, hood..etc yet when it came to positive things there were always white looking/pale biracial or super light light skin no matter what. It was racist programming and it's like the average Black women I saw in life didn't exist. As a kid, I knew it had racist roots and we still see it in commercials. Watch TV and see how biracial is the default. They hate to hire Black actresses for roles and casting companies have racist hiring practices and will only hire all biracial and racial ambiguous girls and women to play a role in a Black family. They can't say there are no Black woman to cast they just want to cast biracial or ambiguous person and erase Blackness as much as possible. Unless the woman is old and overweight in some triflin’ role you will generally not see the Black girls or women.

[@t_ylr]

Genetics is weird. We know it's not like mixing colors for example my mom's dad was medium brown, but he has 5 siblings and some of them look like Zendaya. But just anecdotally that's out of the ordinary. Most sibling are gonna be close in skin tone. At best it's lazy casting. At worst it's colorism and erasure.

[@ismarjovannypalaciosmena.1701]

Genetics is not strange. The information of a gene may not be represented in one person physically, but in another it may. There are physical traits that are not present in the parents, but they are in the children and vice versa. That is by genetic dominance and genetic recessiveness.

[@t_ylr]

@@ismarjovannypalaciosmena.1701 When I say "weird" I just mean that you can't always predict what someone will look like based on their parents or their siblings.

[@ismarjovannypalaciosmena.1701]

@@t_ylr OK. I did realize about that. I mean that is not an adequate word.

[@Cocochantelle]

When you talked about it being seen as a more “refined” version, I felt this tear jerk reaction…It immediately brings EUGENICS to mind…😢

[@obinnamorton773]

Yes, race, science, education. Race science. Eugenics. Ugh.

[@prettynpetty8342]

Funny how it's "refined" when it's black people evolving into a mixed race through their children but it's not "refined" when it's white people evolving into a mixed race. It's all about privileges and power. That's it.

[@ayelefit]

Someone recently told me I look like a slave. I am a dark skin black woman with kinky-coily type 4 hair.

[@TheVegan15]

Excellent commentary! I would like to see real black love on TV and movies. I think Family Matters was the only show depicting a dark father, mother and children 🤔

[@keithecuriouscounselor3911]

Does Flo and James or George and Weezy not count as real black love? We saw more effort in years past. I hope the young creators make a difference present day.

[@JulianSteve]

I hope to see this too. Come on writers✍🏾‼️

[@bunnywavyxx9524]

not a dark father and mother. most black people are dark. That show was depicting regular black people. light skin is the exception and that's how it should be seen

[@obinnamorton773]

Bernie Mac Show. I watched that over My Wife and Kids all the time for this reason. I don't look mixed give me a Black girl. Nope, not getting my screen time. AMERICA!

[@TheVegan15]

@@obinnamorton773 oh yeah! That was a great show♥️

[@ChrisBrooks34]

It's as though dark skin people do not exist in the imagination of the world. We don't exist fantasy we don't exist in sci-fi; we only exist as slaves that's it. How many people were upset that there were black elves in The Lord of the Rings adaptation? We're either destroyed or killed to motivate a white protagonist. And sometimes they will do it with light skinned/ biracial black people; Bonnie in TVD and Grey Worm and Missandei in GoT.

[@jazmininoa5800]

The make-up is make-upping 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@justicemarxofficial7724]

It's true. I'm in multi cultural relationship with my Ndi Igbo Nigerian husband and me as a Jamaican woman. But when most people think multi cultural - it's usually between black & white or Asian and white etc...

[@empressd28]

This is exactly why I intentionally married a black man, had black children and moved to a predominantly black country. I’ll be damned if my bloodline gets whited out.

[@persephonem2699]

Same

[@JulianSteve]

YESSSSSSS👏🏾‼️

[@adams8830]

Goals.

[@mockingbxrd]

Your insane this is the same nonsense as the white replacement theory. My bloodline lol it will be gone in 2-3 generations anyway

[@cutic105]

Facts

[@ericmcmillan2831]

Too many people of all ethnicities are just enamored by a lighter skin complexion. This is a universal issue, unfortunately. Not just a Black issue.

[@misst7923]

I hate this argument. You're right but the difference is people often measure attractiveness by using black and white. So the closer you are to white the more attractive you are, the closer you are to black the more unattractive you are. So the unique thing about colourism in black communities is , we are actually black and also hold this view. The darkest Asian will always be more attractive to a black person who doesn't like being dark, whilst it won't be the same for an Asian. There is no race or culture that believes in order to have children or people that are deemed attractive they need to marry a black person, there are most definitely individuals or groups of people who may think like this but not enough for it to be a wide spread issue. Whereas this is the case in many black communities, to be attractive is to have Asian genetics, white genetics, etc.

[@ontrend5329]

My grandmother suffered a lot as a child because she was black and her mom was a light skin who was racist to her own daugther. Her mom also had a light skinned daugther who she favored most. So sad!! Now that was a long time ago. YOU all pure black people are BEAUTIFUL, GLOWY, WITH PERFECT SKIN! I truly believe there have been some type of insecurity among white people back during slavery which is the reason why they want to bring black people down. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Especially white women back then because white masters used to take black women to be with. I think it all comes from that...

[@colleeneyre6588]

I agree with the issue of portraying younger generations as lighter/biracial while having two black parents. They been doing that forever. But it does make sense that the future look of America will be racially ambitious is a few generations. Over half of the married couples I know are interracial. And their grandchildren will probably be unrecognizable as any specific race

[@loributler127]

Thats not going to happen Black blood can't be erased it's been tried and whose to say whats happening now will be the future? Face it America will be "browning" in the future not deluting our Africaness.

[@darrylynquick478]

I think it's more accurate to say the future black people will be racially ambiguous

[@cupidlaya]

@@darrylynquick478 no, black has a certain look and it’s not racially ambiguous

[@darrylynquick478]

@@cupidlaya I know what black looks like. I'm saying that's what black people could possible look like if dark-skinned people stop procreation with eachother.

[@wokefromhome7389]

@@cupidlaya the average black skin tone has lightened by two shades since the civil rights movement.racially ambiguous will be the norm

[@tf5655]

Glad I didn't watch it. Eddie Murphy (colorist) + Kenya Barris (colorist)= Don’t look.

[@amarauzo7650]

You people was lowkey wild bc Eddie even was saying the there’s barely dark skin ppl but like he was saying it mad weird so I didn’t know how to take it

[@MzCrayKray]

Yes and he complained that their hair wasn't nappy enough. It was a weird scene to me. Smh

[@MayMay-el4wg]

It was a take on hyperbole considering everyone of his kids are biracial 😳😳😳😳😳😳

[@princesschanel469]

pls😭 huh?? His kids are literally mixed themselves!

[@TheLovesnowangel]

@@princesschanel469 his first kids are black but as he got bigger and richer he got as close to white as he could. First wife was black, second was biracial, now his third is white.

[@thematrix2354]

Tbh despite being light , dark or white if u attractive u are attractive it’s just that a lot of these film makers down play the beauty of dark skinned women

[@hrhsophiathefirst4060]

Your eye makeup is amazing. James Cameron will be calling for the next Avatar look because this is a whole look! I travel a lot for skiing and that is to some of the whitest countries in the world and at 6ft1 inch I get a lot of looks both for that and for my darkness. Hollywood does export only the paperbag and lighter shade and after so many years it can no longer be accidental.

[@diosawintour1969]

I’ve been saying this for years and people are calling me paranoid. It stresses me out because I’ve been wondering the exact same question, what will that mean for me and my lineage?

[@adams8830]

It's not paranoia, it's very real. It's just unfortunate that many of us lack foresight and don't think about what the craze for mixed children, light skin and "good hair" means for our overall existence.

[@mockingbxrd]

It is paranoia just like the white replacement theory it's idiotic.

[@Grace-jb7me]

The issue is if you speak up you’re considered racist. They say we’re like white supremacists but for black people. This issue cuts deep smh.

[@ShaeDaily]

I have felt this for quite some time. Like will there be dark skinned people who look like me? 😢 Thank God for my 2 Black Babies but Good God!!!

[@thematrix2354]

Sad part is I’m 18 rn and most of my peers I grew up with who were dark skinned are now light skinned …they bleached their skins … with the mentality that men like light skinned women more than dark skinned

[@tonyagibbs1963]

Loving the blue era! Beautiful! And the video is another word. 💜

[@sweetjalight]

I love how thought out your content is and you deliver it in a very succinct manner.

[@DiaryofDeans]

First of all: You look amazing! I love the eye look today ❤. Second of all: I feel like they always cast a biracial star to show that the daughter is so "beautiful" and the boy is soooo lucky to be in her presence.

[@virtualinlife1996]

Great analysis. It feels like you are the only one or main person on social media truly discussing this. I feel the same way about many of the things you've said. Thank you very much.

[@michellewhitfield5667]

Actually, there is a KZbin commentator named Chrissie who has been doing pioneering work on this specific Dark Skinned Black Women Representation/Anti-Black Women Colorism for the past 9 or so years. Check her out.

[@Appleboo222]

Omg the video is golden!!! I’m Jamaican and I see more Africans and Caribbean people coming together (in my family for example) and that is multi cultural but people don’t care because they aren’t light skin! People are so colourist! Also I did my ancestry DNA and I’m from 12 regions, 6 African 5 white and 1 Asian. Not all multiethnic people are light skin! My brother is also dark skin and from 14 regions. I hate the world we live in kmt

[@deadheadwsp705]

As a white guy this was very interesting to hear and I didn’t realize this was seen as an issue in the black community, but I can see how it is now. I’ve heard people talk about that issue with white people, and it doesn’t bother me that much as it does some of my older relatives, but I didn’t think it was some that people with dark skin were having an issue with too. You made a lot of great points and it kinda clicked in my head when you talked about how dark skin people are portrayed in the media vs light skin or biracial people

[@jaquelinecosta3121]

Omg finally someone talked about this! I never watch much of his show or movies but started to pickup a trend with his casting and even commented with a friend, as he thought that the film was bad and I was like it was terrible and he's so colourist! He knew very well that people would find weird that two dark skin parents would have such light skin kids and included that "your white grandfather" line...so rubbish 🙄

[@jojolove3415]

you look beautiful in blue sis. You right on point.❤❤❤❤

[@TPlocks]

I appreciate what you do. I’m probably not aligned brand wise but you are valued in this space. 🙏🏾

[@hiyahiy]

Not enough people are speaking up and discussing dark skinned erasure and colorism. We need people with a platform to vocalize it.

[@staciejay1023]

Ok first off 🎯 🎯🎯 I’ve been thinking about this too! At every turn, it’s marketed to us that Black (women especially) are obsolete, and that the new face of palatable blackness is mixed race or light skinned. in my own personal family, my ex-husband and I are both brown skinned, and our daughter darker skinned, but our son was the only one who came out with light skin so it is not a feminine trait at all! 😂 thank you for the content, also I am loving the blue era make up!

[@kahlips0180]

Your eye look is EVERYTHING! Thank you so much for standing up in the truth about how long overdue varied representation of dark skin women, specifically, is!

[@hallease]

Ohhhh you went all the way in, and I’m here for it.

[@yaaankomabutcher3168]

I absolutely love your commentary and thought process. It's wonderful how you bring the conversation to life in such a nuanced way 😍

[@artis_1001]

Yeah I had similar critiques to the movie as well. That’s all the media portrays, like skinned women, dark skin men. bell hook’s definitely got me going to. I’m so thankful for her legacy. You are right on point with everything. I agree 100%

[@SaintComeProductions]

I cried when saw the movie lol. I broke it up in 3 different days for the beginning, middle, and end because the messaging was very clear to me. Quick proposals and marriage is for mixed or light skin women. I felt very replaced at the same time a feeling of acceptance that the power belongs to the Tracey Ellis Ross’s and Laura London’s of this world and I’m an alien 👽 lol

[@icomeinpeace3756]

So leave this community and let us BW build for our own like Quinta has done. Yeah she did the pandering (to black women) by casting an unambiguous BM as the love interest in her show, but look who she's with in real life. Love Quinta - and she's truly a stepping stone in the building of our image

[@CopperCulture]

Chile that’s not what the messaging was💀 if you let this one movie make you think that that’s your fault

[@ColleahG]

Wow I didn’t see the show and didn’t realize that’s what the message was. That is extremely disheartening. For my personal life, I am just happy that Christ is close to the broken-hearted and hears our cry 🙌🏾🎉. This world is a sick place.

[@lifeis2171]

That's how bm want you to feel. Don't let that get to yoi

[@fckyhu1886]

@@lifeis2171 Please breed yourselves out like we are doing, so no more black girls will feel this pain 😂😂

[@lauramathews3151]

Super glam makeup today. Looking fierce and spilling truth tea.

[@mayaayaya]

Thank you! Your presence is needed, I appreciate your commentary ❤

[@lisaw44]

KB’s obsession with the biracial narrative is pathological. I don’t need to see You People. That you so much for your perspective and your research depth.

[@teg16454]

Thank you! I commented on another creator about this and I was immediately shut down like there is no erasure 😑 I think you also bring up another point about mixed race automatically meaning looking more white. I have a biracial parent and a black parent so I too am technically mixed but am not white skinned 🤷🏽‍♂️ I guess I won’t be in the future too

[@saaye1475]

MAYOWA THIS EYE MAKEUPPP IS GIVING ME LIFEEE !!!!!

[@cicivlogs8445]

I just found you channel and I am obsessed!! I love black girl commentary channels like bossgirlified, shanspeare, tee noir, and Khadija Mbowe. You are now on the list and I’m subscribing right now!!!

[@Dr.Reviews24]

Girl you are so on point with this I studied gender and minorities in the media and you are hitting it on the nail…makes me want to do a study on this

[@zainz7438]

Your voice is even toned and you are articulate. I loved this video.

[@Longbellytv]

100% on point absolute truth! No lies told. Thank you.

[@luvnpossibilities]

Your inspired look is absolutely striking on you!...luuuuv it!

[@sainttrai]

Mel Medarda in Arcane, Jodie Turner Smith in After Yang, Janelle Monae in Glass Onion, etc. I acknowledge that dark skin women are not presented in media as often as other women, but they are there. I think you have to support the ones that exist currently to get more, respectfully

[@lacy4035]

when i was living in Nigeria before i moved to USA i used to think black American were mixed race or biracial and that was even early 2000s still 2017 when i moved ... same with me thinking Indians were whiter because of their movie still i went to a university with a lot of darker Indians even darker than me .....honestly representation matter because ppl from far who hasn't encounter u in person will have a perspective of who u are from what they see in media . even me thinking black American cultures are gangsters poverty...

[@issalifestylze5491]

Gurll, the makeup!!! Yassss👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Very educational topic per usual ,but girl whatever it is ,this video quality, and all that Melanie. Period👏🏾 😌

[@user-yq6bc6jz7u]

Your analysis is incisive. Bold, nuanced and layered. Thank you.

[@dominique8655]

i know you mentioned it in a previous video, but i am loving the color blue on you 🤩

[@ekpereusoro8159]

Thank you for having these conversations

[@BoHeaux]

You really offer very thought provoking content. And yes, I believe this erasure is the goal. Love the makeup.

[@chantellaalleyne5210]

A lot to unpack and you make great points. I don't think the media represents real life. It's almost like the people in Hollywood are out of touch with reality. They are showing us their reality, but it is not true for everyday regular people. I work in HealthCare and sometimes I'm in the Operating Room and every single person is a black, dark skin woman; Obstetrician, pediatrician, Medical Student, Nurse, Midwife, Surgical Tech, Anesthesiologist. I feel such a sense of pride in those moments which are quite frequent.

[@shaejae6252]

Omg thank youuuu for this. I thought I was being dramatic when I said I didn't like it. It just didn't sit well with me.