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Originally Posted by SEO Keyboard Ninja
Look, i for one can say that being lightskinned in any environment is more challenging than anyone could imagine. Sometimes your too black and sometimes you're not black enough.
I fought in school everyday for 3 years until people got the point. It's an unfortunate how much importance everyone still puts on skin colour. I do believe that there's plenty of instances where it still does matter to people.
like a single woman walking past me at night who either chooses to cross the street or grip her purse makes me really laugh out loud..
For someone Like Barkley to speak on it is more than interesting.
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He's not talking about being light skinned, though I know that is also an issue. He's talking about how blacks treat other black people who don't speak in ebonics, don't dress like niggas supposed to dress, and are successful - they view them as 'not black' and uncle toms kissing up to whitey. To be accepted as black you have to have 'street cred', hip hop culture set back blacks 50 years at least, it made a small minority rich and sold the future for the rest of them down a ghetto sewer.