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2:34 denial?
Damn shame that black folks divide themselves self destruction
Brownskin girl..ya skin just like pearls..best thing in the world..I never change it for anybody else💕
I live in Waterloo, Iowa and we make up for barely 5% of the population. I have never experienced anything that these women are talking about. And I been around plenty of black people all my life. I have traveled and gone places. The color of my skin is beautiful and I am not going to let that stopping me from living my life.
Class does not equate money.
third time watching this so so amazing
sooo what about us black women who are light-skinned but aren't biracial? both of my parents are black, everyone in my family is. I wish there was another woman in the video with a similar situation that could represent.
The title of this video should be "8 ugly, fat, jealous black women have a moan"
WOMEN ARE SO WEAK MINDED!!!!
All of these Queens are Beautiful Black Women.
Wonder if Beyoncé saw this 🤔 Based off her new album “The Gift,” seems like she is trying to be that ally 👍🏾
Wow the referral to the “power couple” picture speaks volumes and I never realized the message behind the caption til now smh.
Lovely group of sistahs.I enjoyed this.
The media is the cause for some of this color ism, because they have made black women feel like you have to be light skinned, or European looking in order to be beautiful. Beyonce is overrated, but she is overrated because she is a light skinned woman. Janet Jackson was a much better performer in her day, but she is not light skinned, and a lot of times Janet went natural looking. The black men on here feel guilty and do not understand because they too do not respect dark skinned women, and probably only date white women, or Black women who look damned near white. It all comes down to self-hate, and people who have conformed to the European way of thinking, and its also a slave mentality, which goes back to dark skin slaves being in the field, but lighter skinned slaves being in the masters house. It was all designed during slavery. Denzel Washington spoke about this when he started acting, and he refused get involved with a white woman on screen, because Hollywood believed a white woman was the example of what we should consider beautiful, and he wanted no part of it. A very intelligent brother.
I know it's said a lot here, but I feel like there would be a deeper conversation if they had other races, and genders in on the conversation. Maybe the conversation could also include how they grew up, their social status, if they had any problems with their skin tones. Like, I love this video, but I think the conversation could go much deeper if there was a difference in the groups skin tone, gender, social status, etc.
”people ignore dark skin fat women” that hit home. I can't tell you enough how many people ignore me and say hello to the person standing next to me who may be white, asian or light skin black.
Internalizing external skin classifications is self hatred. Whichever skin colors we are as long as ones think she/is ugly there is no skin tone which is gonna save your self esteem. All colors are beautiful or ugly depending on ones self acceptance. There is no need to look outside for self reassurance. Self esteem is the cultivation of SELF love.
Best index of all times.
"People literally ignore dark skin women" 2:13 I legit get ignored almost all the time.
i just have to say i lovvvveeee everyones hair in this video
Author Tolu2, " There are more laws and longer to protect animals than females." (C)
start with black hair to be darker. Lol
I’m just going to be blunt with this one
If you are half white & half black, stand in all shades don’t claim just your black side and pretend your white Heritage don’t exists, if you are mix , acknowledge both Black and White sides of you
beautiful group of women having a beautiful enlightening conversation. love
Where's the rest of it? Please post the entire conversation!!! This was great!
Black woman skin colour is your problem get out be more you intelligence urban lead
Yep when I try doing a messy bun I look like a scruff accept I look white so 🤷🏽♀️ so yh
Why only women?
The U.K. has a lot to apologize for.
Grenada!!!! <3
Anyone watching now???
its called having standards, females want to police man' standard he set for himself dating
YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND WHAT IT'S LIKE BEING BROWN IN AMERICA IF YOU ARE NOT BROWN IN AMERICA, SO DON'T ACT LIKE YOUR A WINNER ON SOCIAL MEDIA ECT. THEN COME ON THIS POST AND TRY TO PLAY VICTIM , THEY ARE ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT THE HURT AND PAIN OF A BLACK WOMEN , WE DON'T GET SEXUALIZED LIKE LIGHTER COMPLEXIONS AND WHITE FEMALES IN MUSIC VIDEOS AND ON TWITTER , DO NOT LIE AND SOB AND PLAY PITTY ON HERE FOR ATTENTION .. WHEN IT'S NOT EVEN ABOUT YOU , WE ARE ABOUT TO START EXCLUDING CERTAIN PEOPLE … WATCH IT HAPPEN , 10000 YEARS FROM NOW IT'S GOING TO BE A HONOR TO HAVE DARKER SKIN BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO BE RARE
I have a question: So, in my town and sometimes on social media, hear woman and men who have a white and a black parent usually claim one race and that race is usually Black. The line would roughly be like, "I'm not white, I'm black." Which you are who are and I respect that but why claim one? Why not claim the mixture? I would honestly like to know someone's first hand perspective on it.
i am a very light complected woman my grandmother and daddy were white my grandfather very black raised me my sisters very black i do not pass i am a black girl
if your mother is white…you ARE HALF WHITE. the end.
All black is beautiful…….period
Intentionally breeding lighter babies and only mating with lighter counterparts happened before in history along time ago. How do you think lighter people got here in the first place. History repeats itself
Why some men don't want to date black women when they are black ?
2:54 do not say that in South Africa…its a no no…Apartheid was real here
Biracial is not black.
I love black women.