“...but I think it’s the biggest misnomer in the world to look at a person with very fair skin and call them black.”
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Attributed by RACISTS.
“Present as”.
Don’t hate the black man who isn’t dark enough to suit your optical needs.
“Familiar”.
Well, light-skinned Black people apologize that white men couldn’t keep their dicks to themselves for centuries and so some of us look lighter than you think we should. This is not an issue of colorism, which is not anything you need to concern yourself with if you are not from a melanated people, anyway. This man’s…
You’re not interested in “visibility”. He’s hella visible.
Those of us who are actually Black know that Black people come in all shades. He is “presenting” as Black because HE IS BLACK. Damn, we can’t win with you people.
And yet they are still Black. This is insulting to light-skinned people who supposedly are not “Black enough” for whoever is doing the looking.
No, you trolled because you have no inner self. Leave people and websites alone if you have only disdain for them. Fuck off.
He doesn’t look like them.
PRETTY MUCH.
Word? Don’t do this. I mean it. DO NOT FUCKIN’ DO THIS. As a citizen of Missouri (born and raised), I’ll tell you a little secret about it’s residents: optics don’t mean a good goddamn. They chose a man with a history of calling Mizzou out on their shit. He’s a high yellow Black man, but white people don’t care. I…
This is not the part where you try to claim the moral high ground on behalf of dark-skinned people. We don’t need you for that.
And look at his credentials. On paper at least he looks like a pretty damn good candidate.
and went on to become the third black student in history to graduate from the university’s law school. After college, he was a lawyer for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and came back to Mizzou in 1985 to teach. In addition, he’s worked with Columbia’s chancellor on a diversity and inclusion program for…
You’ve got to be fucking kidding. Gross.
And I’m grey?