One of the dirty little secrets of racism is the prejudice of light skinned blacks against dark skinned blacks.
Some pigs are more equal than others.
I remember that Julian Bond SNL skit.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7tmmig
The way Garrett Morris says, “Say What?” kills me every time.
It's not just 'light and dark - there are names for the various shades between dark and light... It's the same with many other non-white cultures. They rate the 'whitest' among them as more desirable. Then they project that silliness on to us.
It's sad... and wrong.
That's been going on for ages. The house slaves looked down on the field slaves...felt superior to them. And in the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiments during the Civil War, the free black men who served in those units had no use for the contraband regiments who were organized by the likes of Colonel James Montgomery, and Lt. Colonel James Beecher who organized the 1st North Carolina Colored Infantry, later known as the 35th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry. The men of the 54th and 55th looked down their noses at those regiments. The thing is that there were runaway slaves in both of those units, but none of the men could admit to it, and had to lie to take the oath upon joining.
Years ago I heard an lower-level employee grumbling about the "light-skineded" [sic] upper-level manager.
A book of local history has pictures (1940s-'50s) of a black ladies' charitable society. Almost all of the women were very, very light. Where were the medium- and dark-complected women?
In “Sociology,” it was pointed out how “Ebony,” a popular magazine aimed at the Black American market, featured only light skinned folks. There was no ebony in “Ebony!”
Not sure how it is now. It is sad that people of the same race could discriminate against one who was darker. Wouldn’t that be called “Racism?” YOU BETCHA!