Color-ism in The African American Community by Russell Grandberry

      The second group to present talked about color-ism and how it effected the African-American race. The said that color-ism was like racism with-in a race. They reported that African-American males tend to lean more for light-skinned girls than brown or dark-skinned girls. They also reported that African-American women tend to like light-skinned males also. They said that this was because of the hundreds of years of slavery that our ancestors had been through. Our race had always been told to strive to be white. The group said that we wore clothes to imitate white people, because that's all we were given. They said that we've been told that white was good, so our culture has tried to straighten our hair and do other things to imitate white people. This also caused us to like men and women of lighter complexions, because it was closer to the Caucasian skin color.The group also showed various videos of interviews of their peers and their preferences.
     I did not know colorism was a real word until this group presented. Personally, i have no preference in women. Light, Brown, Dark i love them all. However, i do love a woman with long hair. That sign of feminism is attractive to me. I do prefer short women also, i'm not sure why it just happens like that. I don't believe slavery is the reason for preferences however. I just believe that light skinned girls have been stereotyped as being attractive. Preference wise however it will differ from male to male. But the theory that slavery is the reason black guys want light skinned girls doesn't sound correct to me. The video the group showed also adds to my theory that it's just preference. The people in the videos didn't all like light-skinned females.