Daily Mail reports a nightclub event pitting light skinned, brown skinned and dark skinned African-American women against each other in a beauty contest of complexions has caused outraged.
'Battle of the Complexions' contest held last night in St Louis has been accused of degrading women and promoting historical divisions.
'This is the most debatable topic of the year, whats the sexiest skin complexion?? So ladies come out & lets settle this!!', organisers - video and music promotional company Mack TV and a local promoter calling himself Nelly Da'Celeb - said on a Facebook page for the event
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The battle between light and dark skinned Blacks has been a touchy subject in the ‘hood for years dating back to the plantation days through the hallowed brown apaer bag test. Spike Lee tackled the topic in his movie School Daze.
Things haven’t changed much. People have their preferences and that’s just the way it is. Some like dark others light. All are beautiful. But, consider this. Do you think Barack Obama would’ve been elected president if he was as dark as the night? Heck no!
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2 comments:
blond white wmen do not take a stand on burnets or red head , east indiann are never question on their diversity in complexions, latino are also dark and light , differant kind f asians of as brown as most blacks we are not the nly race of people who have diversity when it cmes to shades of color a irish man and a italias s do not look alike but hey are both white.So why do we have this problem with disrespect base on light and dark , ews have big oses, hispanick have kinky hair why do we as africans amricans are not more proud of what we got , so we ware weves and brides butwe do not get life style lifts tanning salon either.
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