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Pearl Thusi and her ilk are deliberately being obtuse on the colourism issue and the ignorance is annoying.
Pearl refuses to acknowledge her lightskin privilege and I dont blame people for being fed up with her.
Lets quickly clear up some issues on L/S privilege
Mini Thread
Pearl refuses to acknowledge her lightskin privilege and I dont blame people for being fed up with her.
Lets quickly clear up some issues on L/S privilege
Mini Thread
To begin, we all know that light skin during slavery and apartheid meant literal better positioning.
Sure, light-skinned Black people were still enslaved, but they were not subject to the same kinds of harsh physical labor as their dark-skinned counterparts.
Sure, light-skinned Black people were still enslaved, but they were not subject to the same kinds of harsh physical labor as their dark-skinned counterparts.
They received coveted work in the big house, with whatever proportional freedoms came with such an assignment...
Slightly better food, better clothing and better sleeping quarters were tangible benefits of having lighter skin.
Slightly better food, better clothing and better sleeping quarters were tangible benefits of having lighter skin.
Summarily, light-skinned Black people were better off even though they were still subject to the most inhumane system of torture and colonialism in history.
Now if we understand and accept that we’re living in the afterlife of chattel slavery, colonial apartheid..
Now if we understand and accept that we’re living in the afterlife of chattel slavery, colonial apartheid..
... and apartheid, where we are no longer chained or legally held in bondage but are still the ‘capital’ in capitalism to be exploited, subjugated with impunity and zeal, then it becomes evident that when the setting shifted from colonialism to the factories, stores and...
...offices (modern setting), the colorist hierarchy accompanied it.
We see it everyday. On our televisions, magazines, movies, the lighter sknned are the ones who get representation. We even have the most ignorant term (yellow bone) to describe L/S Blacks.
We see it everyday. On our televisions, magazines, movies, the lighter sknned are the ones who get representation. We even have the most ignorant term (yellow bone) to describe L/S Blacks.
This is no oppression olympics but light skin people pretending they have it harder than darker skinned Black people is ludicrous and rude. D/S Blacks even get crap from their own families under the guise of "teasing". Then the rest of the world piles in.
Pearl Thusi needs to educate herself and stop lying.. "Burning herself" like really dude. Acting like in high school as if most boys weren't chasing after "yellow bone" girls
We even have Black people procreating with other races for "light skin babies with good hair"
We even have Black people procreating with other races for "light skin babies with good hair"
