greetings Ayinde:

Respectfully, I still seek to understand why "dark-skinned" qualifies a person and "light-skinned" disqualifies a person from anything WITHOUT regard to experience/reality.

If there is a way I could vote for Leader of Liberation, am I to automatically assume that one complexion represents harsher, deeper, more brutal oppression IN THEIR EXPERIENCE, than another.

If so, again, it is something else implemented by the white man, that affects OUR choices and reality. If it is ONLY because the brunt of white oppression, then we MUST acknowledge that white oppression is its mother and by our continuous acknowledgement AND reaction to it, we are nannies to a European bastard.

I gave 2 examples (earlier on this topic) of where each (light and dark) woman experienced family rejection and eventually self rejection. If each were the 2 finalists, how could you say that the darker is the more qualified over the lighter. Based on what? Do we have enough information?

What I am asking is don't we need more info on the person's environment. For example. what if the dark skinned person was raised a queen, understanding her beauty, being proud of her features, and not being exposed to racism or complexionism? What is it that determines that a complexion AUTOMATICALLY represents the degree of oppression. I have not met Leslie, or Ayanna, or Kelani, or Karibkween, or Rootsie, or Tracy or Sis Najuwah, or anyone else that has anything to do with Africaspeaks, Trinicenter, Rastafarispeaks, or Amenhotep. So if I needed to cast a vote for Internet Leader of all these pages, I would need to see photos of these women before I could make a prudent decision?

Now if you are saying that dark skin is more closely in-tuned with our originality and dark skin represents more blessings by the Sun and union with the Earth, please elaborate. But maybe there is something that I am missing until then, because I sight light skin, dark skin awareness and polarisation as a divide and conquer tactic of our Oppressor.

If there is a split or an issue between complexion pre 1555 or pre 4 A.D., please, please help me overstand.

hotep.