{"id":52862,"date":"2017-03-25T01:02:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T01:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52862"},"modified":"2017-03-25T01:02:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T01:02:06","slug":"denying-your-light-skin-privilege-is-harmful-to-the-black-community-as-a-whole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52862","title":{"rendered":"Denying your light skin privilege is harmful to the Black community as a whole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afropunk.com\/profiles\/blogs\/denying-your-light-skin-privilege-is-harmful-to-the-black\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Denying your light skin privilege is harmful to the Black community as a whole<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afropunk.com\" target=\"_blank\">Afropunk<\/a><br \/>\n2017-03-22<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:erin@afropunk.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Erin White<\/strong><\/a>, Contributor<br \/>\n<em>Atlanta, Georgia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afropunk.com\/profiles\/blogs\/denying-your-light-skin-privilege-is-harmful-to-the-black\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/api.ning.com\/files\/ZBLwI5i*rJoxLs50iQioXNmYSqW42jOtXw-rjPEDXL4343c0w016cCiGE0zglaeKmrfz2UcKMi5WaS5zJZbdGgj5OyBsO7w4\/colorismbanner.png\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><em>Photo: PeopleImages \/ Getty<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cStop dividing us!\u201d \u201cWe\u2019re all black at the end of the day.\u201d \u201cThere is no #TeamLightSkin\/#TeamDarkSkin!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let\u2019s cut the crap\u2014nothing is as simple as \u201cWe\u2019re all ______.\u201d It\u2019s nice to be reminded that we\u2019re all in this together, human solidarity and back solidarity are beautiful things. They&#8217;re just not the only things. And when we don\u2019t acknowledge the realities of the bad stuff, we let them fester and we leave others, the people we claim to be in solidarity with, more vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>People of color can never fully separate themselves from their race and what it signifies to \u2018others\u2019, of course, but let\u2019s not pretend that light skin blacks do not receive privileges that are at the expense of dark skin blacks. Every hip-hop reference, every magazine cover, the ease of crossover success for the ambiguously brown while darker skinned folks (especially women) somehow seem largely underrepresented, and subsequently under-valued.<\/p>\n<p>Society at large places a very high value on the perceived proximity to whiteness&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afropunk.com\/profiles\/blogs\/denying-your-light-skin-privilege-is-harmful-to-the-black\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People of color can never fully separate themselves from their race and what it signifies to \u2018others\u2019, of course, but let\u2019s not pretend that light skin blacks do not receive privileges that are at the expense of dark skin blacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,20],"tags":[26219,240,26674],"class_list":["post-52862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-afropunk","tag-colorism","tag-erin-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52871,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52862\/revisions\/52871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}