Cool. You are more than entitled to that opinion. I'm very sorry for mis-identifying you. My opinion is that I don't think she is stupid, I think she's stubborn and selfish (she is only thinking about herself and not her sisters) and not ready to hear us because she already ordered and produced all those creams and…

It's really not your place to judge her stupidity, it's oppressive. Your opinion is irrelevant. I'm a dark skinned educated African woman and I understand what it's like to be socialized in this manner, taught to hate yourself and it took me years of decolonization to accept my dark skinned beauty. I've seen family…

Exactly. This is a valid issue amongst many AAs, but I don’t like it when our business is on front street. Some of the comments on this article are completely idiotic and/or condescending.

I don't need to do anything sweetie. Are you a Black woman?

These are the type of issues that should not be discussed on Jezebel. And, this time, I'm not chastising Jez for covering it. But, this is not a good, nor safe environment for discussing colorism.

Whites are not always treated with kid gloves, or even fairly in the justice system.

Yes, because I see a lot of basic ass opinions from white people who think they are contributing something of worth to the discussion but are in fact attacking this woman for something that is not entirely her fault and missing the context in which this issue still exists.

It's bad enough that this happened, but what makes it even worse is the obvious double standard - not just in the criminal justice system as a whole, but that can even be seen in this same judge's other cases, e.g. the 14 year old African-American kid who he sentenced to 10 years in a juvenile facility after the kid…

THE COURT FINDS THAT THE DEFENDANT IS SUPER SHITTY AND A KILLER DUE TO THE UTTER LACK OF CONSEQUENCES IN HIS LIFE THUS FAR, AND AS SUCH IS NOT ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS OWN ACTIONS. SENTENCE IS TO NOT SUFFER CONSEQUENCES FOR THIS EITHER. COURT IS ADJOURNED.

If the "expert" on Fox News thinks a sentence on a white rich teenager is way too soft and calls the affluenza-defense "nonsense", you know you REALLY fucked up a case.

No, this wasn't a fender bender gone awry. He accelerated into a crowd of people. It's more like the only difference between this and GTA is that it was on the streets and not the teevee.

*praying to every god ever that the lawsuits leave him and his family penniless*

So, if we're not punishing him, can we punish his shitty parents?

Lack of remorse is one of the symptoms of affluenza along with an extreme sense of entitlement and a lack of punishment.

Will white people finely acknowledge that the justice system treats them better?!

This makes me so fucking angry. His blood alcohol was 3 times the legal limit and he killed four people. If the "affluenza" problem was due to the fact that he's never suffered consequences... shouldn't he, I don't know, just spitballing here, SUFFER A CONSEQUENCE???

Someone should've told Biggie he was wrong because, apparently, money solves problems.

Anyone else feel uncomfortable when sensitive issues like these are discussed amongst the masses?

No, it has nothing to do with Asians; it wasn’t “borrowed” from them. Skin color is a complex issue for some subsets (and I reiterate SUBSETS) of the Black community. It’s easy to see why: during slavery, lighter skinned slaves (often the product of rape) were treated better than their darker counterparts (is that the…

In Africa; majority of it is a byproduct left by extreme colonialism and imperialism, but there are some cultures in Africa that have color dynamics independent of westernization. In cases like that both western and African color politics interacting could create toxic environment.