Do Light-Skinned Blacks Have It Easier in Romance?

Read the following from Tyra Banks:

Tuesday, August 12th
"Do Light-Skinned Blacks Have It Easier?"


Tyra spends the hour discussing a race issue still dividing the black community -- the varying shades of skin. Tensions are high when a panel of people with different skin tones takes the stage. Meet a light-skinned woman who believes her skin color makes her more attractive, a man who thinks light-skinned women are snobby and a mother who said she does not want her young son to ever date a dark-skinned girl. The audience is filled with African-American women who are divided into groups according to how they see themselves. Then, Whitney, Eugena, Felicia and Noelle from "America's Next Top Model" are on hand to discuss how their skin color affected their jobs in the fashion industry.

~ www.tyrashow.com

Personally i don't give a damn if you are light skin, dark skin, yellow boned, cola red, red bone, snicker, caramel, milk chocolate, light as Boris Kodjoe, or freakin Akon Snipes, BLACK is BLACK.

Na shape dey bring toasters!  

I love my skin color!!

If nobody else loves it, they can go and choke on a . . . . . ehrrrrm. . . . .lolipop

Ruby_Pearl:

I love my skin color!!

If nobody else loves it, they can go and choke on a . . . . . ehrrrrm. . . . .lolipop

Dead

I personally will date a woman of any color shade. I'm however more attracted to dark complexioned ladies, I just luv me some sexy looking chic with a dark tone. ummm!
Please don't get me wrong I've dated across the board when it comes to women. Although, I've noticed that society has misconstrued light-complexioned for being beautiful which I completely disagree with especially amongst the black race!! Like I also say to folks, DATE WHATEVER MAKES YOU HAPPY OR TICKLES YOUR FANCY!!

Ruby_Pearl:

I love my skin color!!

If nobody else loves it, they can go and choke on a . . . . . ehrrrrm. . . . .lolipop

Can you tell me who has been feeding you with d lolipop?

_{lawd,hammercy on me for mentioning the word.}

Missy B:

Can you tell me who has been feeding you with d lolipop?

_{lawd,hammercy on me for mentioning the word.}

Wal*Mart!
Or what do you think I was talking abt?
I;m innocent abeg

Yea,WE are innocent.

Many guys in Nigeria love light-skinned bebes.
That is why bleaching/toning is very popular among millions of Nigerian babes and ladies.

Many of them will not admit it, but this is the truth.

Many of our guys get excited dating light-skinned babes.

This whole issue of light skinned black people being seen as more attractive stems from many things in the past. Things like the ruler test and the brown paper bag test to diffrentiate between shades or types of black people has given people the wrong mentality that lighter is better. We can't blame people if they have a preference but we need to ask what has influenced their preference. All shades beautiful.

@Post,

I don't know which have it easier, most men are easily overwhelmed when they see a light skinned woman, even if she was ugly and unsophisticated. There is a pull by most black men towards light skin, most accept it, as their default measure of beauty.

There is mystery in sex, there is drama in sex, there is romance in sex (separate from the romance in love), there is cadence in sex, there is friction in sex, there is elasticity in sex, ;for all these attributes of sex and many more, I seek dark skinned woman. Her darkness ignites the animal within me and that alone makes my blood hot for her. To the dark skinned women out there, mmwah!

pussy_full:

pussy is pussy - green - purple - black - white - orange - violet - pink - name it - they are all the same.

achinu:

I personally will date a woman of any color shade. I'm however more attracted to dark complexioned ladies, I just love me some sexy looking chic with a dark tone. ummm!

Same here. I don't know what it is that attracts me to them. My siblings say that I'm just strange like that because they believe (along with what seems like everyone else) that light-skinned women are more attractive. *SHRUG*

To answer the topic question though, I'd say, based on what the majority of people (those that I know) think, yes. Light-Skinned Blacks have it easier.

Personally i don't really care about skin tone on my guys. I love them all. I do like dark skin guys little more(Reggie Bush) but i also love my light skin broth(Terrence Howard).

I used 2 think light-skinned gals re better (or rather, they wld be d ones i wld always have crutch on) but am WRONG. I got a crutch on a dark-skinned gal!

LIGHT SKIN TO BLACK PEOPLE IS LIKE BLOND HAIR TO WHITES

WHEN U SEE AN UGLY LIGHT SKINNED GIRL FROM FAR SHE LOOKS ATTRACTIVE, BUT WHEN U GET CLOSER U REALIZE OH SHE ISNT CUTE
ALSO WHEN U SEE A BLOND WHITE GIRL FROM FAR SHE LOOKS ATTRACTIVE, BUT ONCE U GET CLOSER SHE ISNT SO ATTRACTIVE ANYMORE.

ITS A COMPLEX, THAT WE REALLY NEED TO WORK ON. BECAUSE I HAVE MET SOME OF MY MALE FRIENDS GIRLFRIENDS WHO ARE BLOND AND VERY UNATTRACTIVE, BUT THESE GUYS JUST THINK THEY ARE CUTE BECAUSE THEY ARE BLOND. (NOT EVEN REAL BLONDS).

@ POSTER, I don't buy that.

As someone already said, Black is Black. But whom one prefers to date is another issue.

I think Africans have this complex more, hence the popularity of bleaching creams.

All cement bags are the same jare!

Girls secretly like light skinned boys, however owing to the fear of loneliness of most girls they settle for any color. Now for Guys we worship light skinned chics, only for the fact that we are brainwashed by the traditional mindset that fair=beauty. This all stemmed from our ancestor's fear of the night.

Plus dark colors really don't enhance features as well as light colors do. We all think this, I'm just saying it. BTW most of the most beautiful girls I have ever met were really dark, I guess i was just so impressed at how they could be so beautiful with such dark skin. out!

Plus Keyshia Cole doesn't do it for me at all, with her man jaw

yeah they do find it easy in a slight way

they only have an edge over darker skinned ladies n that egde is only about an inch

n thats cos of the preferences of guys
most have been brainwashed into thinking light is pretty

@post above


light is attractive and not always pretty. (the moment you know she ain't pretty you take your eyes off her)

be it any color (blue, yellow, dim gray, white), the different shapes and sizes is always taken into consideration.

but we talking about complexion now so?

can it

Beauty is more than skin deep.

My woman is black and beautiful and I will not exchange her for another, regardless of the colour of the skin.

how about you marry this woman once andd for all Orikinla

destroya:

Girls secretly like light skinned boys, however owing to the fear of loneliness of most girls they settle for any color. Now for Guys we worship light skinned chics, only for the fact that we are brainwashed by the traditional mindset that fair=beauty. This all stemmed from our ancestor's fear of the night.

Plus dark colors really don't enhance features as well as light colors do. We all think this, I'm just saying it. BTW most of the most beautiful girls I have ever met were really dark, I guess i was just so impressed at how they could be so beautiful with such dark skin. out!

GBAM You'll think it was only men who had that same preference.

Well i dont know. But when it comes to men here in the United States the dark skinned men to me that are cute have attitudes and prefer lightskinned women Beyonce light. Im light myself but im more caramel. I gravitate towards other light skinned people i guess im just comfortable. But when i do go to parties where there are nigerian men they always strike up a conversation with oyebo it annoys me like that is the first thing they notice. Nigerian men like light skinned women i know it here and back when i lived in Nigeria. I just feel sad for the women when they bleach their skin. They look unnaturally light almost orange or ashy color. Some its so bad their face is light like tyra banks but their body is akon ewwwwww. Please love your skin

We as a society have been brainwashed into self-hatred. I see dark skinned men shunning their fellow dark-skinned women for light or white women.

It doesn't matter to me, BLACK is BLACK and I love black, I am however more drawn to dark chocolate, looks awesome against my caramel skin, I don't think light skinned chics are prettier than dark-skinned beauties, it is just a misconception!

^^What's this thread about again .

OH yeh that shade thing, I thought it had died out in my Grannies days, Mulatto's,Octagon's, Quadroons.
Thank goodness for SOUTH LONDON.
Black is Black.