The Study of Racialism

Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't. That really isn't the point. I think the larger point is how Obama used his racial heritage to his advantage in this election.

While he may have used his black heri ...

I just saw Tavis Smiley on MSNBC, and I noticed a disconnect between the white progressives chirping about how America is moving beyond race, yet people like Tavis still view race as a huge social iss ...

I find it ironic that those who support family values would be against Obama and for McCain.

Obama is a devoted husband and family man.

McCain cheated and eventually divorced his first wife whe ...

I know this thread has veered slightly away from the title, but I just wanted to add that the McCain campaign and the GOP in general has disgusted me in ways I never thought possible in modern America ...

Are blonde women bad for White women (especially redheads and brunettes) because they usually get more media attention and are seen as the epitome/pinnacle of White female beauty ?

A bottle can cha ...

LOL Hanzou I am just going to address a few points that I feel are egregiously wrong or just silly:

1. In any light, Boris Kodjoe’s skin color and features are unremarkable in the general AA popul ...

let it go man

let it go

A simple "I'm wrong and you're right" would have sufficed. Laughing

Gemini's response:You just answered your question. common AA many AA. Upon seeing Boris most people did not think or assume he was biracial. or assume? C'mon Gemini, that statement is simply ridicul ...

Dude. Prove to me that she would stick out like a sore thumb. You can't. Where I live there are many, many "light skinned" AA women with noticable Euro features. There's no point in argu ...

Pointless statement no one is pretending otherwise.
Both of my grandfathers are biracial, their children look just as mixed as they do. 3-4 generations away from my biracial(1/2Black foot) (1/ ...

lol where do you live H? He is the complexion of a lot of AA's are you for real? LL Cool J is lighter, Will Smith is lighter, Muhammed Ali, James Earl Jones (grey/blue eyed at that) Smokey Robinson ( ...

Are blonde women bad for White women (especially redheads and brunettes) because they usually get more media attention and are seen as the epitome/pinnacle of White female beauty ?

A bottle can cha ...

Depends on where you live. I stated previously that it was very common for me to see this, I grew up with aa's non biricial with red hair, golden kinky hair, dark people with curly wavy hair grey ...

So do you agree that women who look like Tyra Banks and Kimora Lee Simmons are extraordinarily rare in the AA community?

About as rare as most other "beautiful" women in the media res ...

If Ebony Magazine had a controversial cover that people took issue with, I think its fair to say that people would have a right to be outraged at that cover without having to look at past covers or ...

You didn't say "light skinned blacks", you said a phenotype similar to Tyra Banks. Tyra Banks' phenotype includes a lighter than medium skin tone, brown hair, and green eyes. Those featu ...

If one of the goals of the black power movement was to bring colorism to the forefront and attempt to resist and ultimately destroy, then it failed completely in that goal.

If one would expect a m ...

So the majority of your friends and majority of family members have brown hair, a lighter skin complexion, and green eyes? Also you're saying that this phenotype isn't uncommon in the AA community ...

Black solidarity made embracing sub-Saharan African phenotypes a talking point, not a practice. Which is why in 2008, we still have clearly mixed-looking women as the standard bearers of AA beauty, an ...

It doesn't matter because AAs know that Iman and Wek aren't AAs, thus the fact that they are on the cover is a non-issue. However Banks and Kimora are known to be AAs or part of the AA community i ...