It's the Dominicans who obsess about being mixed and not black. I understand they come in all shades but if we go by that criteria, then us African Americans are mixed too. Shit I'm full black but was born light http://i.imgur.com/UnkWWXJ.jpg

I just have this problem with colorism and black people always saying their mixed. Only read further if you want to see the roots of black denial.

Colorism in the black community annoys me. I get treated different for being light skinned. I am not black enough for black people and not white enough to be white. Black women love light skinned men but I also get hate from darker black males. In hip hop music you always here rappers say I want a "red bitch or yellow bone". I read a study that said light skinned black people usually make up to three times more money as our dark skinned counter parts. I hate seeing people type hastag team light skinned and team darkskinned on facebook. We are all on the same team. Most black people don't realize that there are Africans of all skin colors. It is a large continent.

I remember there was uproar in the black community about something the rapper Lil Wayne said. There were two groupies in his hotel room. One was a beautiful dark woman. He said "damn bitch you look good for a dark skinned chick". The woman said isn't your daughter dark skinned? He said " Yes but the difference between you and her is that she is a dark skinned millionaire. There was a club night in Saint Louis that caused an uproar when they hosted a light skinned night. You had to pass the brown paper bag test to get in. I think a lot of this mentality started in the slavery days. Light skinned and mixed slave were house slaves that slept with the family. Dark slaves were field slaves.

" An actual test, along with the so-called ruler test in common use in the the early 1900s among upper class Black American societies and families to determine if a Black person was sufficiently white to gain admittance or acceptance. If your skin was darker than a brown paper bag, you did not merit inclusion. Thousands of Black institutions including the nation's most eminent Black fraternity -- Phi Alpha Phi, Howard Univiersity, and numerous church and civic groups all practiced this discriminiation. The practice has 19th Century antecedants with the Blue Blood Society and has not totally died out.