I'm Tired Of Talking About Colorism
It is 2025. Why are Black women still having discourse about colorism? What more is there to say? I thought we already knew and accepted that most, if not all, Black males are colorist in one way or another. Why am I still seeing tiktok after tiktok of Black women complaining about the dating preferences of Black male celebrities? Why are Black women still getting upset when a Black male content creator is exposed for being colorist when you should not have been supporting him in the first place? To all my lovely Black women, I mean this from the bottom of my heart. Grow the hell up and move the hell on. Accept that the Black community will never have dark skin Black women’s best interest at heart and divest. Constantly making self-deprecating tiktoks about your darker skin tone or othering yourself from other groups of women is not a productive way to tackle colorism. If anything, you are reinforcing the belief that dark skin is inherently bad when you boil down every minor inconvenie...