Class Culture: The Self Destructive Skin Tone Debate

Part 10

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https://dogood.umd.edu/research-impact/teams/multiracial-biracial-student-association

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jomf.12866

www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2009/1016/p02s16-ussc.html

www.mountainscholar.org/bitstream/handle/10217/176740/Bell_colostate_0053N_13781.pdf

www.embracerace.org/resources/generation-mixed-goes-to-school-radically-listening-to-multiracial-kids

www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/06/06/the-rise-of-multiracial-and-multiethnic-babies-in-the-u-s/

www.thegazette.com/opinion/a-black-white-biracial-life-is-one-of-immense-alienation/

www.melungeon.org

https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2695719/

www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/02/opinion/my-dark-skinned-son-my-light-skinned-daughter/

www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/parenting/children-skin-color-race.html

www.multiracial.com/index.php/2001/03/12/amea-responds-to-multiracial-census-data/

www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-03-18-9803180172-story.html

www.buzzfeed.com/victoriavouloumanos/olivia-rodrigo-naomi-osaka-who-are-mixed-race

www.essence.com/celebrity/living-color-multiracial-celebrities/#217435

www.rickeysmileymorningshow.com/playlist/white-celebrities-who-are-mixed/item/1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_MultiEthnic_Americans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biracial_Family_Network

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biracial_and_multiracial_identity_development

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_(racial_identity)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrison_v._White





 

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I was intend to look at all of this but it is a lot so it won't be this week.
You sure have done more than a bit of research.
Happy Holidays!
 
hearlady said:
I was intend to look at all of this but it is a lot so it won't be this week.
You sure have done more than a bit of research.
Happy Holidays!
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I live for research and more so happy to see all here enjoying the fruits of my labor.

BTW: I do hope you enjoy opening all your toys and dollies tomorrow.
 

In the 1980s, I remember (some of) a series we watched on the Riyadh Compound's CCTV, (how old it was at that time I have no idea, and I don't recall the name of the show)......the host, a black Harvard professor who walked with a limp, traveled Africa, down the east coast and up the west.

When he reached Liberia he told of a group of black Americans, (Malcom X era perhaps), who left the US and flew to Monrovia. Upon arrival, (the story goes), they hurled their US passports into the bush.

Within maybe three days they were using flashlights at night trying to find them. Be careful what you wish for, I guess.
 
Part 11

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www.tapatalk.com/groups/express_yourself/are-blacks-people-crabs-in-a-barrel-t214-s40.html

www.ourheritagemagazine.com/crabs-in-a-barrel/

www.blacknessandtheworkplace.com/post/crabs-in-a-barrel-black-women-at-work

www.ourweekly.com/news/2018/08/17/black-haters-crabs-barrel/

www.huffpost.com/entry/dr-cornel-westthe-biggest-crab-in-the-barrel_b_5a4a54c8e4b0df0de8b06bf1

www.essence.com/how-to-deal-with-jealousy-work-business/

www.aaregistry.org/story/the-american-black-bourgeoisie-a-brief-story/

www.jdnews.com/story/opinion/letters/2016/02/07/no-good-deed-goes-unpunished/32558702007/

www.passionweiss.com/2018/05/17/atlanta-recap-crabs-in-a-barrel/

www.blackvoicenews.com/2006/05/28/crabs-in-a-barrel-mentality/

www.blacklikeweneverleft.com/2014/03/17/crabs-in-a-barrel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality

https://en.wikipedia/org/wiki/Hatred

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jealousy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resentment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_up_with_the_Joneses





 
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Part 12

www.tressiemc.com/uncategorized/why-we-want-to-be-white-women/

www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/02/14/584615868/in-search-of-black-on-black-love

https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/UF/E0/01/05/46/00001/celeste_m.pdf

www.essence.com/op-ed/video-little-black-girl-says-shes-ugly/

https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4713035

www.aao.org/eye-health/glasses-contacts/colored-lenses

www.cdc.gov/contactlenses/decorative-contacts.html

www.quora.com/Is-it-weird-to-wear-colored-contacts

www.colouryoureyes.com/blogs/news/shining-a-light-on-the-best-color-contacts-for-dark-skin

https://discover.hubpages.com/style/Colored-Contacts-for-Black-People

https://thekeep.eiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3206&context=theses

www.city-data.com/forum/fashion-beauty/1001340-black-chicks-wearing-colored-contacts.html

www.publishersweekly.com/9780743456050

www.ebony.com/black-folks-and-colored-contacts-tips-to-avoid-looking-a-mess-504/

www.noireemagazine.com/2020/07/27/contacts-lens/

www.npr.org/2010/01/12/122450327/marriage-black-brothers-where-art-thou

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-esteem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histronic_personality_disorder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_dysmorphic_disorder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferity_complex

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I haven't read any of these although I will in time, the titles alone are informative and provocative.

This colorism across the population is one reason I believe we should quit defining people by color. There is simply no clear line between black and white, we're all just humans on a wide spectrum of pigment, based on when or if our ancestors migrated north.

What I'd like to ask @FastTrax or anyone who has read most of these links: What are your thoughts? What did you learn?
 
IMHO there is nothing to learn. I am 1/2 Colored and with that being known to SF members here that a fair number of my immediate as well as my extended family both have severe self esteem issues. One way or another trying to call me on the carpet feel free to ignore my thread or report my thread as hostile, racist, reverse racist or inflammatory in nature and just plain be done with a subject that makes you uncomfortable. Happy New Year all.
 
FastTrax said:
One way or another trying to call me on the carpet feel free to ignore my thread or report my thread as hostile, racist, reverse racist or inflammatory in nature and just plain be done with a subject that makes you uncomfortable. Happy New Year all.
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@FastTrax, to be clear, I wasn't making a comment one way or another about the content of your links and videos — just that there were so darned many of them that I just don't have the time to view them all and then try to figure anything out. Your thread doesn't make me uncomfortable, and I'm not reporting the thread or thinking anything about it at all.

Added: If I made you feel bad or something along those lines, I apologize. That wasn't my intent at all.
 
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It's kind of funny, when you pay attention while driving thru my old neighborhood (we just moved) you might ask "Why so many hair salons?"

I lived right on the border between Little Saigon and predominantly black South Sac, in a predominantly black community in a predominantly white neighborhood. That's why.
 
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It's kind of funny, when you pay attention while driving thru my old neighborhood (we just moved) you might ask "Why so many hair salons?"

I lived right on the border between Little Saigon and predominantly black South Sac, in a predominantly black community in a predominantly white neighborhood. That's why.
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Just to clarify, my bi-racial wife has what's called type 3b hair. It's curly, thick, and kind of course. If she walked into Mei Hair Salon, Mei wouldn't know where to start.
 
Okay here's the deal and there's no way around it. When one is Biracial, Multicultural, 1/3 this that or the other one needs attachment to one group or another. Can't have it both ways. I have learned the "HARD WAY" when I was in elementary school the Bed-Stuy Black girls worshipped me because of my appearance, the Bed-Stuy Black boys despised me because of my heritage.

All the Crown Heights Jews mocked me because it was clearly understood that my mom possessed the audacity to marry a Haitian man and more so was not even worthy of acceptance. The only people who accepted me without conditions or pause were Puerto Ricans. Now at 72 years of age I have neither the time or inclination to seek acceptance from anyone anywhere at anytime.

Stinky who a number of you have seen her picture is comfortable with herself but Erin is showing signs of low self esteem and her pain of being what and who she is and not being accepted by both cultures is the sole reason for me starting this thread. Only one member here has actually seen a picture of me.

I do love you guys and girls but Stinky read the comments and feels that Grampa needs to pack up and move on. Stinky is a very astute young lady. I have joyfully engaged the membership with my presence here so carry on and have a happy and prosperous New Year.

BTW: I will end this thread with abbreviated pop-culture film clips.
 
Some of this I've read about and have seen in action irl. Great research and thanks for several hours of enlightening reading and viewing this afternoon.

Hoping that Erin's pain leads to healing. This Langston Hughes poem meant so much to me when I was in the grieving stage during counseling.

Island by Langston Hughes

Wave of sorrow,
Do not drown me now:

I see the island
Still ahead somehow.

I see the island
And its sands are fair:

Wave of sorrow,
Take me there
 

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