Are light skinned children treated better?

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Marta Fernandez CUNY -Queens College class of 1985 True about how the parents are responsible. However, unless the household is totally dysfunctional --I think that lighter skinned and prettier kids are treated better, in the North but not in the South. Tuesday, March 24th 2009 at 3:56PM

Marta Fernandez CUNY -Queens College class of 1985 don't make me say something funny-- Tuesday, March 24th 2009 at 6:43PM

robert powell co-owner at self only in America, and other christian colonized societies, cause Jesus is according to those who taught it lighter. Wednesday, March 25th 2009 at 4:48PM

crystal smith DeVry University class of 1998 I have never noticed this. I have noticed the american way of treating fairer skinned people a little better but that has nothing to do with how they are treated within their family. Thursday, March 26th 2009 at 6:53PM

Tamara Dingle Research Analyst at JP Morgan Chase I don't think that they are necessarily treated better I think that there is a certain expectation that if your child is of a lighter persuasion that they will automatically be beautiful and more excepted than a darker child. I have both! I have a lighter skinned son and darker skinned daughter. Both by the same man but just skin colored differently. They are treated the same by me there is no one of them that is treated better than the other because I love them both equally. My daugther is a dark skinned young lady but is very attractive and very addictive personality. I am sad to say that she will probably face her share of differences just because she is not fair skinned like Alicia Keys or Beyonce even though she will measure up to them in looks. Tuesday, June 2nd 2009 at 9:07PM

Haneef Napthali Care manager at self employed People of low mentality will never get equality , equality and justice stands for all and know that Eurocentric idea of beauty will fall jus tas most of them get skin cancer due to the sun, a lot of '*****S' }real definetion dead people who can be asians europeans, chinese japanese, the ethomology of this word can reresent any nation on planet earth..) view 'ligt' skin as beautiful I call this mental slavery Wednesday, December 9th 2009 at 1:29PM

LaTisha Todd I would say yes that children that are of a lighter skin tone get treated better and get a little more ahead in life than children of a darker skin tone. <<<<<< But that's just my opinion. Monday, January 25th 2010 at 8:50AM

Marta Fernandez CUNY -Queens College class of 1985 Thank you LaTisha for facing the ugly truth. Monday, January 25th 2010 at 12:42PM

LaTisha Todd lol wow Tuesday, January 26th 2010 at 6:44AM

Marta Fernandez CUNY -Queens College class of 1985 Why are black people in denial? maybe that is why we continue to have the ugly racism we do. looking at the pic of that little child? who is talking about HAIR? you have got to be kidding right? the black world is a hot mess. do some hair? what is that? if you have good quality hair. ya' know like a good quality weave--lol it --all you have to do is wash and wear it --talk about not knowing what is going on! whew..who SAID ANYTHING ABOUT WHITE WOMEN ? ARE black americans so blighted that they think that other BLACK AMERICANS THAT ARE LIGHT SKINNED MUST HAVE A WHITE PARENT? OH GOD. HELP US. BTW WAY THE PIC OF THOSE TWO LITTLE GIRLS? THEY ARE TWINS...AH YA'LL NEED TO GO TO MY ANTHROPOLOGY CLASS AT www.khemeticscience.ning.com..I thought only the whites and hispanics in amerikkka were ignorant about color.. wow. wow.wow. Tuesday, January 26th 2010 at 8:16AM

LaTisha Todd I don't think that ever light skinned person has a white perent. I just think that people in general that are light skinned get treated better than people that are dark skinned. I'm not hating, but I can see it. Tuesday, January 26th 2010 at 8:44AM

LaTisha Todd I also believe that they are so close to the white complection of a white person that that will happen <<< My mother told me this along time ago. Tuesday, January 26th 2010 at 8:45AM

LaTisha Todd Plus in the daycare that I used to work at years ago I saw most people pick up the light skinned baby b4 they pick up the dark skinned <<< Maybe b-cuz the lighter tone baby has prettier features ( I'm not saying that the dark skinned baby has strong features) but lets just be real here people .......YOU'RE GOING TO PICK UP THE LIGHT SKINNED BABY WAY B4 YOU EVEN THINK PICKING UP THE DARK SKINNED BABY! this is a good topic :) Tuesday, January 26th 2010 at 8:51AM

Marta Fernandez CUNY -Queens College class of 1985 That's interesting, the observation about today most black girls are not dark skinned (your comment that "that nowadays they aren't any more real dark skinned girls and the ones I know are gorgeous" I don't agree, there are a lot of dark skinned and fat, and obnoxious black girls in every single major urban city on the East Coast and every ghetto. This continuing dialogue is about healing one's own perceptions. This shows the extent to which Black Americans have gone to "protect" their dark skinned sisters. Therefore the protection is needed because the underlying belief is that they are not as fortunate as the lighter skinned girls ..yet the lighter skinned girls (women) should speak up and get it out in the open how hurtful their dark skinned sisters have been ...to them since the Massah put the first slave-daughter in the Massah's house.. I thought every black family in America had light skinned, brown skinned, red, yellow and brown and white in their family..don't tell me I am wrong? Here is the problem, if you start with a mindset of ( inter racial l )you are already on the wrong track.I have a blog on the Am erican Physical Anthropologists somewhere on here, read the scientific definition of race, as long as you prescribe to yourself the definition according to "white superiority" called hegemony..you will come up with the same result..which is to deny truths--now I am seeing for the first time a glimpse of how you don't want to deal with this issue....but you need to, to conquer hate, ignorance and the American Way. And who has the twins? you or your "friend"..interracial and white???? interracial and black? Major confusion. Tuesday, January 26th 2010 at 2:53PM

LaTisha Todd Yeah I see what you mean Ms. Henderson. My mother, she very high yellow and she as well can pass for a white person and my father he is as dark as all get out and my skin tone is "Milk Chocolate". Thanks This was a very interesting topic I'm glad that I can carry on a topic like this in a grown up manner << I'm only 17y.o. but I'll be 18 this June ( June 4th ) Tuesday, January 26th 2010 at 4:09PM

LaTisha Todd True Dat. Wednesday, January 27th 2010 at 8:56AM

bishop darien blackshear senior pastor at church of the living god hell yae but u can balance it out by being successful i perfer darker women but all the women in my family including my daughter are fair skinned even though her mother is dark go figure Friday, October 11th 2013 at 12:48PM

robert powell Ohio Northern Univ class of 1966 Are light skinned children treated better? SUBJECT..... In my household of African American Children; my European/AfricanAsian and AMerican light to chocolate skinned Children and Grand Children are Treated the SAME..... ….We; of course... are a multiLingual-Cultural Muslim Family **************************************************************************** Oh Marta; we miss your African American Family-Latino thought at BIA....2020 …..your Multi African American Demographic Observations Kept My Attention at BIA...since 2007 Help BIA, with VOTE 2020 for the CHANGE of the lightSkinned President Barakaa Hussein Obama ….AND the election of The Honorable Senator Cory Booker and Governor Deval Patrick WITH the Beautiful American Indian Senator Kamala Devi Harris...…. Saturday, January 11th 2020 at 9:53AM

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