Color

I have been having bloggers block for like the last week and couldn't think of anything of substanence to blog about. However after reading Nina's blog a bitch had an epiphany of sorts.

Today class, we gonna get serious for a moment and talk about color.

No, not like purple, orange, green. I mean brown, yellow, red...etc. Black folks and color, that's what we discussing.

Now, I'm a light skinneded (yeah, skinneded) woman. I am EXTREMLY light. My mother once told me looking into my face was like looking into the moon, she also calls me vanilla face. If I'm nekkid and you turn off all the lights, you'll still see my ass. Yeah, I'm just that light. Now, I have never had an issue with color. I find that light skinned women tend to think they are better than women of a darker complexion because for so long being close to white signified beauty. I remember a friend of mine saying someone said ugly light skinned people are "yellow wasted" like because you're not super cute facially, you shouldn't have the "gift" of being light. Sad stuff man. But like I said, I don't walk around like 'I'm the shit cause I'm light', quite frankly, I think darker skin is far more appealing to the eye, I would love to be a nice cheasnut color, really, all in all it doesn't make a difference to me what color I am, nor does it make a difference to me what color someone else is.

This leads me to a story about my hood rat friend she is dark skinned, people used to call her 'foxy black' in middle school. I didn't realize until recently that she has color issues. Now it's bad enough that she's a hater...you know the type, the "that bitch think she cute" or the "I'd rock that better than her" but don't let her see a light skin girl rocking something she like, or a light skin girl with a dude she thinks is cute...all HALE will break loose!

For instance:

Brown skin girl with a cute outfit, she would reply to seeing this by saying...

"Man I'd rock the hell outta that dress...she not doing it right, I'd put on some....:insert description of what she'd wear here:"

Light skin girl with same outfit, she would reply to seeing this by saying...

"Light skin bitch...she think she cute! That bitch ain't cute! Annnnnd she not rocking that dress right....:insert description of what she'd wear here:"

EVERYTIME....WITHOUT FAIL...she will say, "light skin bitch", and like two weeks ago I really examined what she was saying.

"You got color issues man." -Me
"I don't have no issues thank you...see I have melanin, you the one with the problem with your light ass." -Her
"I have melanin thank you very much, maybe not as much as you, but I have it, but that's besides the point, I'm being for real, you got issues man." -Me
"What kinda issues would I have?!? I am dark and lovely like the relaxer OKAY! Don't nobody want nobody yellow like you." -Her
"You wanna joke but I'm being for real, everytime you see somebody light its 'light skin bitch this, and light skin bitch that', if we wasn't friends you'd be calling me a light skin bitch if you saw me on the street." -Me
"Probably, but you ain't gotta worry bout dat cause you my nigga." -Her

I know I may never understand the reasoning behind it cause I'm not dark, but shiiiiiiiiit, I got picked on for being light...OFTEN, shit, still do. Don't matter to me cause I know no matter what color I am I'm gonna still be the shit cause I'm me! I try not to let people steal my sunshine and it seems like that's exactly what she has let people do...and they kids at that!

Light skin chicks do get a bad rap...not all light skin chicks, because trust, I have met some who think that when they take a shit it smells like roses just cause they are light. But light skin chicks like me who could really give a fuck. And quite frankly light skin chicks are out of style anyway and have been since what? The 90's? It's all about the Cablasians from what I can tell.