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rp @blairimani: COLORISM: WHAT IS IT? WHY DOES IT MATTER? Colorism is bias against darker skin color and in favor of lighter skin color within and between groups and cultures. It is a form of white supremacy that benefits people who are perceived as close or in proximity to whiteness. As a light skinned Black woman, I benefit from colorism. Just as white people benefit from white supremacy. Benefiting from a system of oppression does not require you to agree with it and by doing nothing about it, you’re complicit. People with privilege in a given system must take it upon themselves to learn about how forms of oppression lift them up at other people’s expense. You’ve likely seen colorism in action. In representation, lighter skinned actors are often hired to play darker skinned figures in history or even fiction. In opportunity, lighter skinned people are less likely to be tone policed in the same way as their darker skinned peers. Colorism also impacts life and death. There’s a reason that the majority of the people who have been victims of police violence have been darker skinned Black folks. Because white supremacy, racism, and colorism all socialize us to believe that lighter = safer and leaves darker skinned people to fight a wall of bias and too often it is in a life and death context. From a US historical standpoint: Lighter skinned Black people often “passed for white” escaping the conditions of racism that their family & community members could not navigate out of at all. So, when I hear some lighter skinned people complain about how hard they’ve had it, it can remind me of a poor white person saying that they didn’t experience white privilege because they grew up poor. While yes. Those experiences of bullying and poverty are still valid and deserve acknowledgment, it’s different than having an entire system constructed against you because of your skin color. As we engage in antiracism we have to look at ALL of the ways that white supremacy manifests. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
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rp @blairimani: COLORISM: WHAT IS IT? WHY DOES IT MATTER? Colorism is bias against darker skin color and in favor of lighter skin color within and between groups and cultures. It is a form of white supremacy that benefits people who are perceived as close or in proximity to whiteness. As a light skinned Black woman, I benefit from colorism. Just as white people benefit from white supremacy. Benefiting from a system of oppression does not require you to agree with it and by doing nothing about it, you’re complicit. People with privilege in a given system must take it upon themselves to learn about how forms of oppression lift them up at other people’s expense. You’ve likely seen colorism in action. In representation, lighter skinned actors are often hired to play darker skinned figures in history or even fiction. In opportunity, lighter skinned people are less likely to be tone policed in the same way as their darker skinned peers. Colorism also impacts life and death. There’s a reason that the majority of the people who have been victims of police violence have been darker skinned Black folks. Because white supremacy, racism, and colorism all socialize us to believe that lighter = safer and leaves darker skinned people to fight a wall of bias and too often it is in a life and death context. From a US historical standpoint: Lighter skinned Black people often “passed for white” escaping the conditions of racism that their family & community members could not navigate out of at all. So, when I hear some lighter skinned people complain about how hard they’ve had it, it can remind me of a poor white person saying that they didn’t experience white privilege because they grew up poor. While yes. Those experiences of bullying and poverty are still valid and deserve acknowledgment, it’s different than having an entire system constructed against you because of your skin color. As we engage in antiracism we have to look at ALL of the ways that white supremacy manifests. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems