Beyonce and Colorism

ColiBreh1 said:
Real talk, I've never been attracted to Lupita & don't know why she is considered fine AT ALL.

I can go outside & see better looking darker skin BW. I used to read urban magazines that were targeted to BM (i.e. King Magazine, Smooth Magazine, & etc.) when I was a teenager in 2000's. All the darker skin big booty models they had in those magazine are badder to me than Lupita. All the darker skin black women in the "Booty Talk" series/West Coast Productions/& other popular black porn I used to watch in the 2000's are badder than Lupita. Instagram is filled with darker skin IG models that are badder than Lupita. I can keeping going on, but y'all get the point. So WTF is Lupita always held-up as some example of a fine darkskin BW when she clearly is not?
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Kenya Moore thanks you dearly!!!!:D:D:D
 
Reverie said:
She fits the European standard of beauty with her tall and slender figure. Her face is euro centric enough too. I think she is a very cute woman btw. Not ugly. The problem as I see it, is that we are force fed her as what a gorgeous black woman is supposed to look like, (as we are force fed how a beautiful white woman should look like, but that is not what we are talking about now), and I oppose to being force fed.
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I completely diagree with this statement, I think we are looking at her through an opposite lense.

I've seen the same kind of description (*white-girl-dipped-in-chocolate*) giving to models like Naomi Campbell... Noami Campbell!!! If you drop Naomi Campbell (or Lupita) in amougst a group of Nigerians or Ivorians she would blend right in.
 
RicardoCooper said:
I read the thread. Did anybody here flat out say dark skin was ugly? Brotherman just did not prefer Lupita, but said others were more attractive to him

I think Bria Myles is a fucking stallion. If more dark chicks looked like her, you wouldn't be hearing all this whining about colorism. A lot of times it isn't color, it's that you're plain fucking busted. The irony is, chicks that dark and pretty are busy throwing themselves at white dick, Bria included, and have no interest in making all-black children

I personally think Lupita is attractive, and is Hollywood's go-to darker woman right now. Her non-American background makes her exotic ie not your average neck-rolling American hood chick. She doesn't get lead roles because she's not a lead, point blank. Octavia Butler doesn't get lead roles either and she's got an Oscar.

Being light-skinned hasn't worked for many female artists including Solange. She isn't really shifting units. Also see: Mya and the old Pussycat Dolls lead singer whose solo record got shelved (old school, I know). Whole bunch of chicks from the 2000s didn't make it, of various skin tones. Ashanti? Amerie? Tweet? Remember them? Other than the holy trinity of Beyonce, Rihanna and Cardi B, nobody really gets any hype that I know of. There can only be so many divas at one time on the airwaves/pop culture

Missy is dark and has been around for 20 years. She was fat, too. Viola is crushing it again, 20 years in. Both so famous I don't even have to use their last names. It's about talent not skin color!

"Colorism" is another play for sympathy and victimhood for the black woman. How many black men have been curved or not hired for being too black? The difference is black men just create their own shit that they're the boss of (primarily music, specifically hip-hop), make money and watch the same hoes that curved them come back begging.
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I agree,
Bria Myles is a damn jezebel!! Or a least tries her best to play into that image....NOT my thing to be honest!!! Amara La Negra is another.

Kenya Moore all the way!!!!
 
The Dark King said:
Of course y'all had to use a young chick that twerks lol
Check Brittnebabe at least shorty is a fitness aficionado

And if you think colorism is some black woman whining tool please leave your small enclave and venture out because right now you sound like a racially tone deaf white person trying to say racism doesn't exist because Obama was president and Oprah is rich.
For one there are plenty of studies that show darker skin people get heavier sentences for crimes and are less likely to get hired.
And yes successful dark skin women exist but that doesn't mean the usual go to is light skin woman. If you want some entertainment examples just say go I don't mind schooling you brothers for free. I spread love Its the Brooklyn way lol.

And to the comment about dark skin men not whining is because in this weird racial game darker skin men of African descent are considered more manly so it often works in our benefit if you can walk the tight rope of being manly and approachable like an Idris or a Sidney. But can you see how that might work against darker skin women who are more likely not to have European features like their light skin sisters.
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My point exactly!!!
 
The Dark King said:
Hold on a sec you honestly don't see the irony in your statement. So lets say a non black person said I'm not black I don't have a dog in this fight. Maybe they are uneducated and ghetto so they deserve to get no due process and shot maybe they none of them are qualified to have a job otherwise they'd have them.
Take a bow you illustrated perfectly why racism persists and will never die.
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Whooooo! You should be in the Olympics with a causal leap like that. Way to argue things I never said

Y'all triggered motherfuckers are on your own, peace
 
Ivy Lebelle's Bae said:
I completely diagree with this statement, I think we are looking at her through an opposite lense.

I've seen the same kind of description (*white-girl-dipped-in-chocolate*) giving to models like Naomi Campbell... Noami Campbell!!! If you drop Naomi Campbell (or Lupita) in amougst a group of Nigerians or Ivorians she would blend right in.
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And?
 
RicardoCooper said:
Whooooo! You should be in the Olympics with a causal leap like that. Way to argue things I never said

Y'all triggered motherfuckers are on your own, peace
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You're saying that maybe the reason dark skin women aren't represented is because maybe they're untalented and don't deserve to be there but they're pulling the colorism card. Seriously please tell me how that's different from what I said. And what do I have to be triggered about I'm not a dark skin black female try again.
 
Ivy Lebelle's Bae said:
Sir, this is clearly what I said, You're just echoing me.
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Then why bring up two women as examples of dark skin women being able to make it when that's not the argument. The argument is the ease light skin women have opposed to darker skin women.
They even go so far to replace dark skin women with light skin women.
Family Matters the mom
Fresh Prince the mom
My Wife and Kids the daughter
Hell you even saw this bullshit in the Nina Simone biopic are we gonna pretend this shit don't exist
 
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