The discrimination of African Americans by Skin tone in their own community, usually subconsciously done, as most Blacks dont realize they're doing it until some dumb rapper or famous person makes a stupid untrue statement about darker toned women.

Perpetuated during slavery and by the media which seems to suggest lighter skin females to be of a higher stance than darker ones.

Perpetuated by rappers who often show more lighter skinned women in videos and hardly any darker ones.

Perpetuated by some Black men who treat lighter skinned females in a higher regard than darker toned ones.

An untrue Inplication that darker skin girls cannot be as fine as lighter ones. Bullshit.

Example of statements made for colorism

1.(rapper) "She gotta be a thick lightskinned redbone...long hair..."

2. "Dang you cute... for a dark skinned girl."

3. "Lightskinned girls just way finer! I dont want no dark girl!"

Colorism by loblg88 January 17, 2010

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colorism

Racism within members of the same race. For instance, light-skinned African Americans looking down on and discriminating against darker-skinned African Americans.

Colorism is just as harmful as racism perpetrated by whites on blacks.

colorism by anne white December 19, 2008

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reverse colorism

hatred or discrimination of light skinned blacks

Some blacks falsely claim most house slaves were light skin blacks this is reverse colorism.Phillis Wheatley was a dark skin house slave.

reverse colorism by heather70 December 24, 2008

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reverse colorism

reverse colorism -a hatred of light skin blacks

Some blacks in Washington,D.C.(black majority) did not want Sharon Pratt Dixon as a mayor because she is a light skin black and mayoral candidate Marion Berry tried to have his light skin wife darken her skin.These are incidents of reverse colorism.

reverse colorism by QueenAfrica May 19, 2009

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