[Applause] Pease family welcome to part two in my series destroying six wives about colorism we are on line number two which is that colorism is only a black woman’s problem now there’s no doubt about it that typically when you hear colorism being discussed it’s often in reference to dark-skinned black women but I think
There’s a misconception that that’s really the only group that’s faced with this issue in the way that it is so in this video I kind of want to explore beyond those parameters to show you how this does impact other groups of people other types of people including our brothers now within black society
Dark-skinned black men are often looked at as desirable as masculine and manly and whatnot but there’s another side to that coin as well you know there’s a lot of the negative attributes that people place specifically on dark-skinned black men and other black people placed upon dark-skinned black men so we’re going to
You know get into that we’re gonna explore and we’re gonna see just how much this can affect our brothers and other people so the first person I want to address or deal with is Sammy Sosa now Sammy Sosa was an extremely successful baseball player is Dominican and he had he had a good
Run he had a good track record and in more recent years people noticed that his complexion changed he looked totally different than when he did when he was playing baseball and you know it’s very evident of course that he bleached his skin now a lot of people have come out
And made memes and jokes and things about it but I find it interesting that with all of these successes and accolades and money and fame that he’s acquired through being very skilled as an athlete that still was not enough on some level or what-have-you he felt insecure about his complexion he
Disliked his complexion and so he sought to change it I think that that’s a really big statement I think sometimes especially with our brothers they may not be as vocal about how colorism impacts them but they may show it in their actions so but this man doing what
He did to this end looking completely different looking totally different it’s just really a huge statement that he saw a problem with himself being his dark skin after all that he’s achieved and all that he’s done next I want to go to Vybz Kartel who is a Jamaican artist a
Reggae artist and same thing you know people noticed that all of a sudden he started looking totally different his complexion totally switched up now people have asked him about it he gets very defensive and it kind of pissed off four people ask him about his skin he said some kind of crazy respond
People asking him about it but at the end of the day you see again just how you know this man who can be successful who could be well known only to make money his issuer or one of his issues was still his complexion was still him being
Dark and he did not like that so he saw again thoughts of changing in Jamaica is very common to hear about people using things like cake soap or whatnot to change the complexion of their skin often when skin bleaching is discussed you will hear a lot about this happening
In the Caribbean and which is interesting because when you look at places like Jamaica you see a very high number of black people of course who are of brown or darker skin complexions and even within that society people are still seeking to be lighter now you know
This may be a little controversial here I know people feel the type of way about Michael Jackson and whatnot I know that he supposedly had vitiligo things that I made sure now I can’t see here and say that he did or didn’t happen okay that’s what was claimed however when you look
At the whole picture you see the fact that it’s well documented that he had a lot of issues with certain black features corner for the female his nose things of that nature you see how he’s changed his hair you know even if people was wearing
Curls at one point in time he wanted to continue that he wanted to have hair that was not like an afro okay you you see how much his skin changed and his nose and all of these sorts of things and the cheekbones and all of that so to
Me there’s a level thereof so paid as well you know again people will come in in the comments I’m sure and talk about well he had been a Michael that’s why he was brighter sorry but I’m not completely buying it I’m not completely buying that he has been a like oh this
Is why his skin ended up being white just I think that there is definitely a level of self-hate that Michael Jackson had about himself and some of the things that most heavily identify about being black kinky hair brown skin large nose he wanted to change those things so you
Know debate if you will but I think that’s a heavy part of his thing now let’s get into some of these negative connotations that are associated with dark-skinned black men first and foremost criminality people love to project criminality onto dark-skinned black men I think a lot of people if
They were honest would say that if there was an image of a thug it would almost exclusively be a dark skinned black man like let’s keep it above but oftentimes what happens is there’s an overestimation of analogy and overestimation and violence there is a lack of empathy oftentimes that’s given to specifically
Dark-skinned black men people are more willing to support dark-skinned black men being punished instead of them having there appear having other assistance so you know this really runs deep there was a study done that was measuring the brainwaves of people when they were shown different images and the
Study showed that black people had the same negative emotional response as white people did when they were shown images of dark-skinned black men so again this this runs very deep so if you have all of these negative stereotypes about black men then there has to be exceptions right so who gets the
Exception well typically much lighter skinned black men but not even that but often biracial me and will get the exception they will be seen as less aggressive less threatening you know less intimidating a less of a thug less of a criminal and definitely less of a
Possible rapist if you will we know that sex and the obsession with white women and these types of things are often placed upon dark-skinned black men that they cannot control themselves and so people are much more willing to believe a rape allegation against the dark-skinned black man then they’re
Willing to believe it against anybody else and including them included in that would be biracial man so again colorism us taking these these negative things that have been pushed about us by the dominant society and internalizing them and using them against each other and seeing each other
In these type of negative ways so you know these are definitely negative effects that dark-skinned black men get more than anybody else now earlier in the video I mentioned how some brothers may not be as verbal about colorism but it may show in their actions I think
This story here is a good example of that earlier this year you had this NFL player Jahlil a day who had a video video that went viral it was with him and his wife who was white and other couples who were black men and non black women and they were toasting to more
Light-skinned babies there was kind of like a firestorm after that a lot of people had a lot of things to say about the videos and things made about it and so this is a good example because you may not hear as many brothers outright say I want light-skinned babies but it
Will show in the women that they choose to have children with okay so a lot and often sadly this is a lot of times dark-skinned black men where you see this kind of thing being perpetuated so in this case it was verbally expressed in the toast but again showing in the
Woman that he chose to have children and have a family way clearly to me he did not want to pass on his dark skin to this child and as you see in the picture here his child is very light-skinned baby so this is exactly what I mean when
I say that you know sometimes it’s not about being as verbal as you may hear some black women say I want a light-skinned baby but it may show or so in the action and these again are impacts in an effect of colorism that happened in our community I’m not saying
This is the case with every single dark-skinned black man who’s with a non black woman or whatever the case may be but to me it’s very clear that this is a part of the overall story like you know that if you have a child with this woman
You have a much higher likelihood that your child will not be as dark as that that your child will not look like you okay then after that she kind of had a copycat situation with this guy Terrence Ross who’s an NBA player for the Orlando
Magic him and his white wife put up a post cheering some more light-skinned baby and so again it’s the same type of philosophy you know the light-skinned baby the light-skinned part being the prize you know not cheers to a healthy baby not cheers to a happy baby but
Cheers to more light-skinned babies so that comes across as that is the most important part of that sentence and I think that’s how a lot of people regarded him saying that so yeah to me there’s just another example of how colorism may impact black men and they
May not say it in a certain type of way but they may say it in other ways and with their actions you have people even like Mattie knows who’s recently been kind of outspoken about colorism saying that he pursued Beyonce’s mom Tina Knowles because she was so by actually thinking
She was a white woman so yeah you know there’s just a huge misconception that you know black men are not affected or impacted by it’s not true you have brothers who do bleach their skin now that may not be as coming in as it is here in America as it
Is in other regions where they make bleach their skin more you may see it here among you know some of the homosexual black males but nonetheless you have a lot of brothers impacted and affected by colorism even if they’re not bleaching their skin but again along with that misconception that this is
Just a black woman’s issue you look at many other places around the world you look at India and skin bleaching is very common there they have a caste system which directly connects to color the darker you are the darker your complexion the lower down on the caste
System that you are of course Bollywood the Bollywood industry is very big there and many of the actors and actresses are very light complexion and the larger population of course wants to look like those actors and actresses they want to be much lighter so it’s not something
You know this past taboo I would say as some other places around the world where this happens but because of that caste system many people know hey for me to try to move up in life or perhaps get somewhere different maybe I should bleach my skin but beyond
India you have throughout Asia you have in China you have Korea where skin lightening skin whitening skin it’s still something that’s very common and we may see them as being very pale but they want to be even paler they want their skin to be even more porcelain
They want to be even wider the geishas you know painting their faces white because that was seen as more desirable that was seen as more that’s more beautiful okay so again the misconception this is just a dark-skinned black woman’s problem is it’s false we do tend to hyper sexualized our dark-skinned black
Men that does not mean though that they are not affected and impacted by colorism alright so we got us sometimes look deeper than the surface in order to understand you know how these things have conditioned us and why things are kind of the way that they are so again
Colorism is not just a black woman’s problem all right all right now um family I love y’all appreciate y’all please don’t forget to Like comment share subscribe all that good stuff and I will see you in part 3
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