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Like policing and law, the medical field is another place where colorism has deadly consequences.
— Aug 22, 2026 12:57PM
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Erin
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has acknowledged colorism as a unique form of discrimination.
— Aug 22, 2026 10:15AM
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Colorism in families is not simple and is often entangled with other family dynamics.
— Aug 22, 2026 09:38AM
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Erin
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"You just need to love yourself and stop caring what others think about you" is one of the most common responses lobbed at dark skinned women and girls.
— Aug 22, 2026 09:00AM
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Erin
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Colorism's roots in slavery created division and distrust among the enslaved.
— Aug 22, 2026 08:47AM
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Prior to the 1929 novel The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman, nearly all Black female characters were mixed race, very fair skinned and often able to pass for white.
— Aug 21, 2026 04:51PM
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Erin
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The professional hair industry around the world is rife with systematic texturism.
— Aug 21, 2026 04:04PM
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Black people of all genders are raised to see our natural hair as a problem that must be managed, hidden, transformed or cut off.
— Aug 21, 2026 03:19PM
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Erin
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Across cultures the stigma of being seen as "Black" is directly tied to anti- African sentiment.
— Aug 21, 2026 02:09PM
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Erin
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In Brazil its a foreign idea that people with different hair textures and skin tones are considered the same race.
— Aug 21, 2026 11:35AM
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"You're viewed as weak if you acknowledge you've been hurt or people dismiss you as being too sensitive.
— Aug 21, 2026 11:06AM
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Erin
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Colorism like racism or sexism can't be solved by only focusing on raising the self-esteem of people who experience it.
— Aug 21, 2026 09:58AM
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Everyone seemed to notice and respond to subtle differences in skin tones, yet no one else seemed to think that ranking people based on those differences is a bad thing.
— Aug 21, 2026 08:23AM
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