
From Jezebel:
Salon's Joan Walsh dissects many of the recent stories about how white people feel that anti-white sentiment is on the rise. Look: It's not a competition. But when it comes to white people feeling discriminated against (Gothamist headline: "Regarding Racism, Whites Think They Are the New Blacks"), white people have no idea how soul-stomping, heartbreaking and difficult it is to be black in America.
Especially if you have dark skin. The clip above is from Dark Girls, an upcoming documentary "exploring the deep-seated biases and attitudes about skin color - particularly dark skinned women, outside of and within the Black American culture." Directed by Bill Duke and D. Channsin Berry, this clip is moving, powerful, emotional, and completely upsetting - yet an absolute must-see. Read more here.
Dark Girls: Preview from Bradinn French on Vimeo.


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By: Goodgold on 6/02/2011 11:25PM
I find it hilarious that some folks think that whites are anti-white sentiment is on the rise. In general, I'd bet more whites are against blacks and vice versa because of Obama playing the race card so muxch and making race a major factor. Whites could not be happier being white. And, I notice, black guys always are with the lighter skinned blacks, if not with whites, leaving the black women to be alone. Don't fool yourselves into thing this junk about how whites feel.
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By: Yolanda R. Thomas on 6/07/2011 3:48PM
I guess my mother, father and family overloaded me with self esteem, because I love being black. "Say it loud I Black and I'm Proud" I'm a people watcher and simply love to see my people looking good. I do not understand people who base their friendships and relationships on the hue of a person’s skin color. I know there are many people with this issue. For me, it has always been the content of their character
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By: Watcher Watchmen on 6/11/2011 8:12PM
*** THE NAKED TRUTH ABOUT BLACK-SKIN ***
(Warning! This in not intended for the faint at heart)
The only problem with being BLACK is NOT by the black-skin in itself, but by the Eurocentric psychotically racist view of black-skin and fundamentally racist propaganda.
There's absolutely NOTHING benefiting about being White Over Being Black in ANY genomic way shape or form.
It's purely psychological than it would ever be physiological and goes no further than a social construct concocted by whites settlers within poorer "Dark-Skinned" countries. Those whites bring with them all their genetically encoded racial hatred with them into those cultures of color eventually become sexually active with usually the Females of those "Melanated" countries and there births Bi-Racial children “used as tools” to carry on their fundamentally white racist biddings against the "Darker" people of color there.
But there's yet another problem to realize about blacks and that being many blacks are so lost within the Eurocentric Constructs of themselves that they don’t even know their OWN true identity and unique beauty.
(This was no accident within a Eurocentric paradigm)
Yet underlying it all is the scientific definition of BLACK-SKIN being "MELANIN"
An unsung cocktail of genetic blessings that contains the following (down played) ingredients;
************
Carbon,
Oxygen,
Hydrogen,
Nitrogen,
Antioxidants
Free-radical scavengers
is why you can read this post.
is why your eyes can "SEE" colors, yet alone at all!
is why your nose can "Smell" things
is why your tongue can "Taste" things
is why your ears can "Hear" things
is why Females can give birth
is why human embryo forms into HUMANS
is why your BRAIN can process as it does
(Melanin is heavily concentrated within your BRAIN among other MAJOR organs through the human anatomy)
Melanin is also an antimutagen!
(Genetic/gene stabilizer)
Melanin protects the human host of radiation.
And much more of the physiological benefits of Melanin (Or being BLACK) that the white media will NEVER tell you about, else “this moment” wouldn’t be the first for many of you to know about this.
BETTER TO KNOW THY SELF!
Not only HOLY,, but WHOLE’ly.
And furthermore, to the contrary of those white psychotically racist teachings, SCIENCE validates that having the lesser of the presence of melanin comes with an associated deficiency that the presence of melanin can and have otherwise controlled and/or regulates. This evidence is as clear as the fact that whites suffer more “Color Perception deficiency” than blacks do. This reasons are so simple, it can also be found in preschool science books. Black Absorbs Colors while whites reflects it.
Whereas, Lighter Colored eyes absorbs less color waves than Darker colored eyes and therefore Dark Colored eyes sends more richer color-signals into the brain than lighter colored eyes ever will. But you’d likely never be concerned of this with all the media sensationalization around lighter colored eyes supported by a social construct.
But in the scientific world, it’s the evident of mutagenic or genetic drifts.
These are Hard Scientifically Raw Facts and are indicative to the detriment effects upon that which is deficient of melanin. Although being color-deprived may not effect the ability to drive to work, the effects of something “missing” is still present.
This is also why the genes of whites are scientifically known to be genetically recessive.
Because “Both” are missing “something” and the combination of what’s “Missing” is passed on to their young. Therefore it’s imperative for whites to procreate with “Someone of color” (More Melanin) as a means of genetic-code-replenishments. If they don’t, their genetically recessive genes would eventually catch up to them and cease their existence.
(This is why an all white society would eventually go extinct – Fool heartedly they’d unknowingly commit this self-genocide upon themselves from within themselves and to arrogantly racist to ever come to terms of this!.)
Don’t let them fool you, they NEED your melanin-genes for their OWN survival!
Although there are whites in denial that would blast these scientific facts, there’s yet another (silent) group of whites (calling the shots for their white wellbeing) who are “IN THE KNOW” and are covertly ensuring enough “Melanin” gets into white-blood stream to sustain them. To orchestrate just enough melanin dosage to sustain their white-skin population but not too much melanin that it would darken whites to the point of extinction or not too little melanin that it would also cause ultimate extinction of whites.
The newest method is to run a propaganda campaign that convinces certain people of color (formerly rejected by whites) to be re-wired to RE-THINK themselves as being white. (all of a sudden).
This “Repositioning of the white color-line” cleverly opens the doors for whites to become “Technically more Melanated” while proclaiming their traditional “Whiteness”
(Not only is this an Oxymoron, but also hypocritical)
The overall effect of melanin deficiency is in many forms and at random.
-Good at math but sings as if being tone deaf
-Good at playing music while poor at general comprehension.
-Slurred Speech and repeatedly forgets to flush the toilet but can recite the weekday of any calendar date.
And many more random quirts and genetic hiccups from the subtle to the obvious, all due to deviations from the prime god gene, nourished by the prime diet.
Ironically, the most commonly shares deficiency of being melanin deprived is the inability to “FEEL” others and being more prone to living in unjustified fear.
Even the pineal gland (which also secretes Melanin) being the seat of the soul, is also a spiritual portal that allows for certain spiritual influences and/or governances.
When this portal becomes clouded with calcifications, then emotions and behaviors becomes lesser spiritually stabilized.
This is why the history between blacks and whites clearly exemplifies blacks as being more receptive to the contrary of whites being more belligerent.
Blacks are more spiritually inclined while whites are demonically inclined.
But as Blacks also takes on more Eurocentric dietary habits rather than their own preordained foods of the sunny tropics, (the environment from which being black originates), then hey too will inherit the associated ailments for their deviations from god laws put forth for them.
And in thinking of GOD, as in a physiological appearance, it’s assumed of an ALL KNOWING GOD, having infinite wealth, time and resource at his disposal, while knowing of all these Melanated Benefits would yet “DECIDE” to exclude it from his most prized creations of man?
Would this not be a total Oxymoron for an ALL KNOWING GOD who knows what is physiologically “Better” but Doith not?
You think Jesus (although this is not his real name), was pale-skin, blond and blue eyes while standing on a mountain top “IN DIRECT BLAZING NOT SUN LIGHT”?
(The SCIENCE of the human anatomy is so revealing, isn’t it?)
Ironically, places that are devoid of light creates white skin, or albinism. –Scientific Fact!
(places such as the bottomless pit, where Satan is confined.)
But leave it up to these psychotically racist whites and they’ll con you to believe God/Jesus is white, solely to appease themselves in spite of all the apposing facts (scientifically and otherwise) standing before them.
White Psychotically Racist Ignorance is what gives being BLACK a bad name.
However within the SCIENCES, Black/Melanin is why YOU ALL ARE HERE AS HUMANS!
If you psychotically racist xenophobic imbeciles don’t believe that, try giving birth stripped of Melanin and see how far you get!
If anywhere at all!
There was a time when all shades of "COLOR" fought shoulder to shoulder against a common enemy who demonstrated general hatred of them all for having Non-Porcelain white skin color! Period!
But as if that wasn’t enough, whites have come back to rip the Colorful rainbow of unity completely "Apartheid" and turn each shade of color against its self and the other?
This is PURELY the product of a psychotically racist based social construct born from a psychotically racist paradigm of lies and deceit for its own fortification.
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By: Dianne on 7/13/2011 3:31PM
Gad zooks!, Now I've got to go read Joan Walsh. Too bad you didn't list when she said this at her column in Salon:"Salon's Joan Walsh dissects many of the recent stories about how white people feel that anti-white sentiment is on the rise."
I should think so and all it is defined as paranoia as a consequence of how they know they have been misbehaving big time since Barack Obama arrived on their scene. Is it any wonder that the Tea Party style of Republicanism, which thought it would be a shoe-in with the kind of Southerners and transplanted Southerners now in the House, and those receiving "mush" money from the Koch bros. like that d.a. governor of Wisconsin whose father was a cracker preacher in the Southwest, are suffering a self-referencing case of acute paranoia after all the hate they have been releasing on the air-waves and on-camera.
They can't back down, they are stuck with it and they are deathly afraid of what is going to be done to them as a result of their lip and lack of ordinary manners. They have no wiggle room. Watch out for their brainless children however who don't have any sense, like that idiot in Tucson,Arizona who shot up a Congresswoman and as many people standing near her his clip could handle.
Man, didn't I tell you that Sarah Palin is the same stock poor white red neck trash who was a secessionist from the Union like her husband who probably thought it was an all right stance for Indigenous people to seceed and claim the oil money free of taxes. And so is the babe from Waterloo, Iowa who thought she had to compete with Palin and now is in a heck of a lot of trouble because she is not going to be the first girl to run for President but will need all the money she can hustle from the gullible to pay off the Bachmann debt to the Dept. of Internal Revenue Service which calls for an investigation because her very gay husband Dr.Bachmann took our tax-money and we can start with the first $80,000 that needs to be collected tout suite to at least pay for the inquiry into what this crazy couple has been up to all along. And what about the well being of all those 23 or 28 foster children put in their care?
People like this are innately afraid their attitude problem will eventually catch up with them and they have had every reason bit by bit that The President is not who they think he is or even wanted to pretend he was as those chickens have come home to roost because he pulls one gotcha everytime they turn around unaware of their ignorance of what the Constitution requires of them when they get into their lame brain schemes of what they are going to do with the government. Can you imagine how this guy plays cards?
I finally figured out what Joe Biden,v.p., said to that policeman from Cambridge,Massachusetts when they had a few beers in the garden of the White House,"Hi!You can call me Joe. My son is attorney-general down in Delaware where we live. Wish he could have been here to meet you."
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By: Renard smith on 7/23/2011 5:53AM
basically everywoman has been thought for love and heart but this do not be neglect .
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By: melissa diamond on 8/04/2011 6:43PM
This is a Reply to Everyone. Not only have u folks talkd about other counties & how other cultures deal with having Darker skin as well. But what hasnt been said is how The Blk Media Causes more Damange than anyother race, BLACK MEN Light Brown carmel or dark Will Diss another Dark Sista B4 they would Deny a Dark skin woman From another culture, To them thats Exotic.... I myself am dark skin & have had guys tell me that they wouldnt date me bc of my skin color. & yes @12or13 being told that did hurt. But im older now & got the Rainbow jumping on my island. You have all Black Media & i do Mean All Including MS O herself Not Paying enough attention to the Lack of Respect for the Darker shade of african americans. Black Folks can only band together for a Picknic & FreakFest. But when its to talk about and create a problen solver for how Blacks Hate Blacks then Maybe Black folks Could stop being so worried still about how Whitefolks Treat us. Iam a young woman of the 80s but that doesnt mean i grew up thinking How these kids of the 90s are. When u have your Own Calling u a BLACK ASS MONKEY thats when it needs to be more About Black Folks ANd less about other Cultures & what they Feel..
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By: vanessa Jones on 5/28/2012 7:52PM
I am a light skinned woman raised in the south. I always struggled with my complexion until I learned what the white man done to my foregrand mothers . I think black is beautful all the way.
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