Light skin is not a personality

01:14:48“But you know what?

Yeah, just touching on that. Like, one thing I do want to

say before we end is, like, I can

see how, like, mixed people have been extremely

problematic in general and just also in the course for

just like, fighting for the

rights of black people.

Like, sometimes I see some mixed people and I'm like, you're

literally just a roadblock. Like, you're a stumbling block. And I do.

I just want to acknowledge that as a mixed person myself, I see

how other mixed people are just a bit tapped in the head

and just literally destroying progress that's been made.

And I don't say that lightly, but when I see, like, people

that refer to themselves as light skins and how, like, they're, for example,

like, let it be their personality.

Yeah, yeah,

Literally, like, being light skin is not a personality.

Like, I just don't understand how I

can see your Snap username and it's like,”

SEALED

“Or like, it's like, okay, we get it.

You have two parents from two entirely

different cultures. But that cannot be your whole personality.

There needs to be more depth to that.

And then if you then are okay,

you refer to your. You refer to yourself as light skinned,

then don't look down to people that you perceive to be dark

skinned or brown skin. Do

you get what I mean? I think

that's so problematic.

And that's like. We're literally like putting black

people up against each other and just separating ourselves.”