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Both sides of the issue
Posted By: Ayinde In Response To: Let us admit that there is a color competition (Ras Marcus)
Date: Saturday, 13 November 2004, at 7:28 p.m.
The issue of colourism - privileges going to people of lighter shades, is two fold. You have lighter-skinned ones accepting it as the norm, and darker-skinned Blacks who also unconsciously accept and support it by virtue of the same slavery/colonial socialization and conditioning. Like racism, it continues because of that double-sided effect.
It is a conditioning that will only shift with a whole new awareness. It is one thing to say that one acknowledges that it exists, but quite another to live by a set of values to be fair to all people.
Even people's present perception of beauty annexed to feelings of love was conditioned as a result of the socialization that took place during the Arab/European slavery/colonial era. Most things that people have casually accepted about themselves were conditioned, and should be reevaluated.
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