[paulat]

Or Hispanics fresh from the old country, where Blacks are the lowest kind of human.

Oprah said once that one day, she will have a show on the bias among blacks among skin color. (I saw the show).

She never has. Wonder if she ever will.

Wonder if, in their role-playing...they pitted light-skinned black against dark-skinned black.

Doubt it.

[oneamericanvoice]

"Oprah said once that one day, she will have a show on the bias among blacks among skin color. (I saw the show)."

Maybe you should remind her of that promise. Bet she never does it though.

I had a friend who auditioned for "In Living Color" (remember that show). He was turned down because he wasn't "Black" enough.

[Rodney Kings Brain]

The skin color amongst blacks played a huge part in the poverty of pre-Katrina New Orleans where the poorest were always the darkest. Historically, an even know as a "brown bag dinner" was invented by NO blacks. Guests had to turn up with food in a brown paper bag and if their skin was darker than the bag, they were not allowed in. The same prejudice is common in African nations as well - hence the huge industry in skin lightening products exported to that continent (now largely banned.)