Light-skinned, Dark-skinned, Colorism Still Seperates Us

We're still on this issue of colorism in the African-American community and while I can appreciate that Tyra Banks tried to have a show dealing with this issue I am not so sure why she is being criticized for her choice of panelists. I am not that interested in what academias have to say on the issue, Black scholars or any of our other Black "elite". We always hear what they have to say and quite honestly there isn't enough said about what everyday ordinary African-Americans think about anything.

That much said there is a lot to say about people's preferences. Light-skinned African-American women feel as though they can date anyone and won't date dark-skinned or White men; leave that to other dark skinned African-American women to do. There aren't but enough "intelligent" opinions or viewpoints to go around we know about slavery the house n* and the field n* what about African-Americans that are dealing with this right now that are trying to make sense of all of this.

Dark-skinned men are either interested in light-skinned women because they aren't totally sure they can have them or could never get one or are not interested at all and have a preference for dark-skinned women because light-skinned woman rejected them early on, or led them on but those women weren't really there for them when it came down to it, or whatever. These are the types of issues that we are dealing with now. At the end of the day we're all African-American and at some point in time we're all attracted to each other, regardless of what we say or how we think. Yet there is this need to articulate viewpoints out of the hurt that we had in the past.