Light Skin = Your Ticket Out
The Heptones - Choice of Color
Nina Simone - Four Women
Talib Kweli - Expansion Outro/Four Women
If you had a choice of SHADE, which one would you choose? The lightest shade, of course!
Now, your family's prejudices against those real dark brothers, sisters, and cousins has SCIENCE to back 'em up. To all the moms out there who carried the torch for supremacy, you were right. To all the moms that have said, "She'd be prettier if she wasn't SO dark." You were right! All that money spent on lightening creams and other assorted SUPREMACY beauty products may actually have payed off. Now, we can hope for, not only, healthy babies, but light-skinned ones.
A recent study found that lighter skinned immigrants earned more, on average, than their darker counterparts. Skin tone was scored on a scale of one to ten, ten being the darkest. Each decrease in shade was shown to be equivalent to ONE YEAR of education (controlling for many factors including race, type of employment, etc.). If you added height to the equation, each extra inch was equivalent to a one percent increase in wages.
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses of LIGHT-SKINNED and TALL.
Eff school, we need more lightening creams. If we all work hard and scrub our faces every day and every night, we can hope to achieve a decrease of 4 shades. That's like a college degree! If you scrub extra hard, including nights and weekends, maybe you can get that Ph.D you've been dreamin' about!
posted by vik on Tuesday, January 30, 2007
2 Comments:
c,mon folks.....where are those light skinned commenters???
Wtf? How is this even allowed? I know this word is thrown around alot. But seriously, this is really rascist. And has no sources.
There could be other reason for these connections then just race. Correlation doesn't mean causation. For example the weight=more money. I think there is a mor logical reason for that. People with more money and access to food get more weight. With that money they go to good schools which gives them good jobs which gives them good pay. So Money=food food=fat money=school school=money.
And the race part? Maybe the fact that darker skinned people don't get access to as good education as their lighter skinned counterparts. Or that because of discrimination in the work force, darker skinned people get payed less, and thus don't have access to pay for good schools. Intelligence is not enterly genetic. A big factor is how much you train your brain, which again is connected school. What kind of test was it? Who made the test? When was the test made? How many volunteers? OMG WHERE ARE THE SOURCES!
And i really hate how this is saying it's okay to shame someone for their skin color saying it's completely justified.
Wth have i just read. I can't believe there exists something so missinformative and rascist as this.
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