Things Dark Skin People DON’T Tell you: REACTION
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Sis said “why do we equate a ‘better race’ with lighter skin. what about better roads and clean water” 😭😭💀
Simone Jaycobs no because these countries really have better shit to worry about 😭‼️
I Am Eloho speak it into existence ☕️💀
Wow i never new that
And free education! That will make a true difference.
“Your skin colour is a gift. It’s never been a blemish or a problem” 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Melo Tlhabz 💯‼️
Kiikkk
I legit teared up when she said that.
I'm the same skintone as the korean woman (I'm mixed) but I really feel sorry to all the people that go through racism in day to day life. Please stay strong💜❤️💜
Exactly! Melanin is protective and something that helps humans survive, the more, the better!
You are literally so freaking pretty its unreal.
ikr! like sis can you share?
Yall bitches overrate her
Low Distortion Nah. She’s pretty. At least average.
@@sarathewonderful7561 nah
Low Distortion how rude to call someone ugly I guess some people are just born jealous and envious🙂
its pass my bed time but i got a black queen to watch 🙈😌
Same, it's 2am here. Haha.
Whitegirlmagic who are you to tell me that?Its my opinion and its a fact.I didnt ask for you to tell me that if i think shes a beautiful motivational woman supporting and representing us black women,i call that a queen.
Whitegirlmagic 🗿
@Whitegirlmagic Your username tells me you're a troll. Gtfo. If you don't respect Eloho and don't like her videos or what she says, move along. It's really simple.
@Whitegirlmagic Oh please. If Black women are Welfare Queens than White women are Social Security Queens. I can confirm this with a White Latina mother and all the other White women in Social Security faking their problems to get a check. It's mostly White women with children every time I go there. Of course I won't generalize, but I see what I see. But you're out here trying to generalize every Black women when your dumbass doesn't know every Black women.
I'm so happy this conversation of colorism is finally being had. I'm a light skinned woman but the two most important women in my life are black. I've had to grow up seeing my mom and my sister get put through the ringer for being dark skinned. I'm just so happy that colorism is being brought to the forefront. Dark skin is absolutely gorgeous, people who think otherwise are mentally ill and just plain sick in the head.
Girl preachhhhhhh
"No, sis, you're just light and some guys will choose you just because of that." TRUTH
FRR, She's always speaking truth. You would legit hear guys in my college talking to each other and asking for an exchange for "a lightskinned girl\friend" for them. They talk about "lightskins" as if they're items just because they're light.
Why aren't you verified yet?!
I have to hit 100K first 😊
@@iameloho718 It's happened
Sis u hit 100k a long time ago why is you not verified yet
soul of hearts she is
Yellow is beautiful against your skinnnnn..diggin what you're wearing
Also that video made me get in my feelings too like man this world is effed..
Tippy Taps thank you !
@Elizabeth Noir girl wtf are u talking about she was talking about how the top is yellow and she should wear yellow more cuz it looks good on her👀
Same when that woman talked about being an angel I cried cause I really felt her emotion and passion and determination
@I'm Gone I'm not used to crying either I'm a Scorpio
@I'm Gone Facts😁😁😁
I’m , I guess a light to medium skinned latino and as far back as I can remember , I was always aware of the preference for light skin . Whenever a light skinned baby was born into the family , they would always comment how cute and light they came out . The people in my family that were considered the attractive members of the family were always the ones that looked more Caucasian . I remember when my brother had a kid with a black looking Domincan , my mom would say , instead of improving the race he put it in reverse . Things like this have played such a huge roll in my life . Till this day I feel like I’ve Been programmed to only date white people or to only have white friends and to avoid getting too dark . I know this won’t happen in my life time but I wish we could live in a world where someone’s worth isn’t determined by their skin color . I wish I could go to the beach with my friends and not be worried the entire time about getting darker .
alex avalos thanks for your honesty about this. I’ve met so many Latino men that will never admit how they were socialized. And if they meet an attractive dark skinned woman it almost confuses them. They will like you but never take you seriously. I hope the world will get better as we learn to address these issues openly and honestly.
Go to the beach, enjoy the sun, date who you want and live YOUR life. Be the example for your family. Good luck. 👍🏽
Meanwhile white people spend millions buying taning creams and going to the tanning salon. Don't be fooled darker skin is very beautiful too
starfirebb robin meanwhile darker complected folks spend millions bleaching & it’s sad. white folks and darker skinned folks, I pray for us bc we are lost with the physical
both of us need to stop
samantha simon I have a very small group of friends . I have some black friends that I’m friends with on social media from school back in the day but I don’t have any black friends that I like kick it with , and none of my friends have any that they bring around either. I feel like the nyc community is kinda clicky, it’s not like I wouldn’t be open to having black friends , but it’s not like I can just grab one off the street or something
" If we were back in slavery days, I would be a house slave, and you'd be a field slave." - Bullied Me. I can not believe I was this stupid back in junior high - 9th grade. Smh.
🙄 Adult me knows a bunch of colourist surrounded me. I picked up the toxicity but dropped them when I realize those thoughts weren't my own.
hey! i'm of south chinese ancestry and i inherited having darker skin from my mom, who got it from her dad. she started putting lightening creams on me at around 7 years old, and i was 9 by the time i begged her to buy me more creams so i could become lighter. i deeply hated my skin so much, i refused to wear light colours and only wore black - once in a fit of tears i scraped off a huge patch of my skin. i finally quit lighting creams age 17-18. i finally embraced my skin and enjoyed being out in the sun. ive been told so many times that i'm "too dark to be chinese" - yet so many of the chinese people saying this have family my colour! thanks for talking about this and bringing up the cultural difference between skin tone standards, because while i am the lightest person amongst my friends, in a room of other chinese i am usually the darkest.
also i used to also culturally lighten and use whiter makeup. i literally cannot shop for foundation back in my home country bc even if i tell the shop assistant not to make me lighter, they always come back and say they did it anyway because "i'd look better" - sometimes insinuating that it would be a "waste" for someone with a nice face to be darker. like fuck off & balik kampung
I feel proud of you right now. Keep going, Beautiful ❤
Ik this is from forever ago, but I couldn’t relate more! I am also from a southern part of China, so in the summertime my skin tans very fast. Growing up in a predominantly white area, I always felt weird about my skin tone because I didn’t like how my tan was brown and I wanted to have an orange tone like the white girls😂 However, as I got older I embraced being different because my brown skin made me unique and I didn’t care about conforming anymore. Thank you for sharing your story. Embrace your skin💛
Im white but my boyfriend is from Guangzhou and im very close with his family. It took a long time for me to get used to them talking about my (very fair) skin colour, I felt really bad one time because him mom, who is very light, looked at me and said, "your skin is so beautiful, so white. My skin is all yellow, no beautiful.". It made me really sad to see her say that, I didn't know what to say through the language barrier besides: "No your skin looks very beautiful!". It made me sad to see that even at 50 years old she still didn't believe me. Im sorry about your experiences, just remember that you're beautiful and amazing no matter your skin colour❤️. As a kid my family always told me my skin was too pale, that I looked sick and like I was dead, I tried tanning oil and laying in the sun for hours, but I eventually stopped caring and started to love my skin. You can't please everybody, so please yourself. 我爱你， 你很漂亮。
I’m sitting here crying because all of them are so beautiful and I’m just hurting for them. This honestly breaks my heart so much , I truly wish things were different.
I cried also. So so sad. I love my black ppl. And I am light skinned mexican. i can pass for white.
My grandmother use to tell me to say out of the sun - she was not worried about sun cancer, trust .
I do love the vid for showing that dark-skin/colorism is not just black american thing.
#blackisbeautiful
I remember the grown ups telling us that...and I used to tell it to my lil sister eventually because she was very light skinned but then she got really dark...but it wasnt really cuz of the sun...when I got older and more knowledge I realized it was because our dad was dark..genes n stuff..she got the melanin from him 😂
Yes baby
Trini Girl yeppp I used to be a pale kid then bam my melanin took off and I was like yasss mom I’m chocolate like you almost and she me like 😬 yah
@@123pearbear lmaoooo idk I found this comment kinda funny
WE LOVE A CONSISTENT QUEEN
Exactly I hope she doesn't change as she grows subscribers most do #sadreality
So I’m an British born Indian Christian girl! Colorism is something that has affected me from the jump. I’m from South Indian (generally darker skinned) - I’ve been told by other North Indians (specifically) firstly you are dark because your ancestors were probably poor fishermen and you are Christian because it was free to preach the bible during colonisation. For so long, during school ‘friends’ and ‘so called family’ were like you aren’t really Indian or you’d be prettier if you just used some fair and lovely. It’s been a battle to accept I’m darker. Now I’m older and wiser (I hope, lol), I love my skin I love the sun, the glow and the fact that people can’t quite work out where I’m from! So long story short melanin is never going out of fashion ✊🏾✊🏾
People can be so horrible, you go and live your life girl ✊🏿
Amen sister 🙏🏾 ✊🏾
The dark skin is SSSOOOO BEAUTIFUL TO ME.....BEING A LIGHT WOMAN I ALWAYS ADORED MY SISTER'S COMPLEXION WHICH IS BROWN....I THINK ITS ABOUSOLUTELY GORGEOUS
Thank sis
@@zoejackson9668 you are MORE than welcome ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT AT THE BASIS OF ALL OF THIS BROWN SKIN BEAUTIFUL DARK SKIN STUNNING BLACK SKIN HATE IS ENVY PURE & SIMPLE!!!!!!
Thank you
I remember when I was at school my religious studies teacher made a joke about me by saying," God created the darkness and Jaye appeared!"
Needless to say I dropped that class along with all my "friends" that laughed at that joke!
Do you mind if I ask you if that effected your thoughts on Christ?
what kind of “teacher” would dare say something like that? and they’re religious? shameful.
They were infantile in their walk with Christ. You did the right thing.
60K!! damn girll, ya killin the youtube game sis!!!!!
God damn she was like 35K and then I blinked
Cool
Got love for all shades #blackgirlmagic ✊🏼✊🏾✊🏿oh and that fro and outfit are giving me life!! Yasss💕
When I was 12 my mom would make me use skin lightening creams to get me back to my "original complexion." It would break me out so bad, but hey at least I was lighter right 🙄
I'm 23 now & my younger sister is 13 and darker than me. I intervene SO much to remind her how gorgeous she is (she's conceited now). I stopped her from using the skin lightening creams & my mom gets so upset. She truly doesnt get the problem shes creating and I've given up trying to shed light on the situation.
As long as my sister knows she's beautiful with every phenotypical black feature she has, then my job is done. Self love above all
Yes keep supporting her! I am only a couple years older than my dark skinned 13 year old sister but I tell her all the time she is beautiful because I cannot bear the thought of her or anyone else hating themselves.
I'm black/African american and my parents would always uplift me. Dad would say " look at this bible/ church, now imagine all the characters in here of dark skin, they look like you and you them..." Mom would encourage my drawing to be of characters to look like me because I'm beautiful. My family would tell me and the rest of my cousins and siblings and just the younger generation of us in general, that our skin is sun kissed, we are kissed by the sun and that we are children of the sun and of the light. Ever since then (about the age of 5 or 6) 99.9% of my characters i draw are black or of African culture (i like Egyptian....mainly for the gold and royalties). The other 1% is because i still like to add some mix to my drawings some diversity.
Even though my family didn't encourage me to love my skin tone (the opposite), I too grew up with a strong love for my dark skin for some reason. And this all happened during my teen years when I started to follow more dark artists and dark influencers in general. I went from ALWAYS drawing light skin women to 90% drawing black women only! The remaining 10% is simply because I like to switch up every once ina while. But dark skin is sooo beautiful and perfect for drawing because literally every color fits
I remember being in high school sophomore year. And my boy at the time, a black dude saw my dad and he said "wow your dad is really black" as a joke. And I was confused like huh? I'm kind of a dark brown / bronze kind of color, but my dad is really dark skin black man, and my mom is a light skin black woman. So i'm a mix of them, so I guess he thought both my parents were kind of brown or something before he saw my dad. Mind you this dude was dark skin himself, which is so strange. Colorism is definitely a real thing. It can be corrected, but it's a real thing.
I remember how shocked I was that he said that. Because I'm like we all Black people, and we all come in different shades, I thought that was a given for us. I didn't think a comment like that would come from another Black person, and a darker skinned person at that. It was crazy!
Same
@@deshiah742 don't mine those type of fools who say such things...in fact your skin is looking very beautiful on your profile.
Noname Needed awwwww thank you so much I need that have a good rest of your day 😁
Tbh your dadnis ALSO a colorist for getting with your mom #js
@@angelface101ful what? You know people have a preference right? Unless you're dating them because they're lightskin and nothing else or because of your self hatred. Other than that, you dont know this kid's parents lol
I’ve always heard the “if we turn off the light we won’t be able to see you anymore.” It was so annoying
When the guy said he tried to changed himself to be culturally lighter. It really hit home to me. When some of us cant change our appearance, we change our personalities... 😔 this generation has to change that.
I should be sleeping, but I'm here. 😁
I really like that they added different dark skin too as a dark tan Latina here. (:
In Brazil, they call us Morenas. I think Amara talked about the issues Latin countries have with dark tones of women versus lighter tones or white passing women.
I wonder how it is for Black women in certain African countries if they go through that too.
I also heard this is a struggle for dark skinned Asians and Indian women. Yikes, the lightening creams and outcasting. I feel for all of these women. Why does the European standard have to be ideal? Smh.
Brasil! Te amo! Brasil has it hard with the colorism there.
I am from Kenya, a certain TV station called NTV, has only light skinned female news anchors and dark skinned male anchors...smh.
The madness is worldwide.
India still has a whole caste system encouraging the colorism so yeah it’s crazy in Asia I feel like they are more open about it
@@themalcontent298 They do. It's just sad. I feel for my girls over there struggling for an education and a life really because of something so childish.
@@Torihappyness That's so fucked up. I hate how the darker toned women are always under the bus while darker toned men are being uplifted in societies and they complain about this and that when being darker as a man has always been favored, but it's the opposite for women. When I used to watch Novellas as a child, the women with my skin tone and darker were always the maids or had lower roles versus the women who looked like my mother and sister. I didn't realize the bigger issues at hand like how they can't get jobs, they're less preferred, seen as animals, etc. This nonsense is seen everywhere and I'm glad Eloho's channel is a platform for these kind of topics. Her subs are only rising, go Eloho.
I remember when I just watched that video on buzzfeed I was real life crying I could feel their pain. I believe videos like that really helped me love my melanin even more. I also appreciate when people can see the beauty in themselves❤️
Dark skin Hispanics are Black also 🖤. Black is beautiful! That Puerto Rican lady made me smile! 😊
Colourism is also in Africa. When I was 12 my aunts will always complain that my skin was getting dark, and buy me bleaching creams. But my mom always told me not too. But i always felt ugly in my skin that I wasn't good enough. Because my siblings were all lighter than me. After the years i have accepted my skin.
My very dark skinned cousin did the gel in his hair thing... and he was into punk or whatever... I always suspected it.. cultural lightening... interesting... he eventually did marry someone white...
My brother too smh but my mom always used to tell us shit like dont bring no Zulu home for me 😒😒😒😒😒😒😒
unbothered. b right
Hollie Charles what if he Just like the punk scene??
My cousin did the same except I didn't have to wonder. He had a really bad experience because of his deep dark skin and within weeks of seeing him he was geling his hair, wearing light contacts, using "fading" creams..etc. Changed his music, the way he dressed. He also married White and eventually slipped up one day and told me he didn't want to be called Black anymore and I'm like "Okay, if you're not Black then what are you? 👀". In a way I think many of us do cultural lightening in some shape or form to be accepted and less threatening so I get it.
Sun oo I just thought u meant music wise because I listen to Kpop not to feel Korean or any just cuz I like it so when u said if I thought maybe that’s where he was coming from thanks for clarifying
Those African girls were POPPING!😍
West and East Africa represents 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Sis I’m Indian and my relatives encourage me to use skin lightening products bc they feel that nobody would marry me
Dark skin is beautiful it has always been the world needs to wake up 😑
Colorism is rampant in Mexico, you never really see dark skinned people being successful in media(unless it is as the cleaning lady or the blue collar men in a telenovela or something like that). I grew up with a lot of issues about my appearance because you see the colorism everywhere! even within my paternal extended family, when I was a kid I would notice their preference for lighter features whenever a new baby came into the family(ironic, I got my melanin from them). I'm almost always the darkest person in the room and coming to terms with my looks has taken me a long time. Even now sometimes I still catch myself wishing I looked different. Now, I won't lie, I still got issues to work through but since I've been watching your videos(a few weeks now) I decided that not only I'm gonna be ok with my skin color, I will own it! I even changed my profile pic both here and on FB to show off my beautiful skin(I had other pictures that made me seem lighter).
You're so cool! Keep on the good work
LOVE this look today.. DAMN! 😍
I remember when I was little my tía my dads side looked at me and told my mom “she’s pretty. But too bad she’s dark” now that I look back I’m just like how could you say that to your family? Let alone a child.?
I had the same experience when I worked at Sephora in DC with my Ethiopian clients. Many of them seem to have issues with colorism and wanted lighter foundation.
So.... theu prefer to walk around like a ghost? Lol Truly sad...
This scares me so much. I remember a girl cried when she got matched for the CORRECT foundation shade, she couldn't believe she was "that dark". She always bought and used lighter foundation. She was worried how people would perceive and treat her with a foundation "that dark" a.k.a her skintone. Folks are brainwashed and they don't even know it.
@Alba Maria Christiansen ??? Isn't Jackie Aina Nigerian??
@@foxyboop4164 is more than a sadness
@Alba Maria Christiansen and sometimes very depressing
Dark skin squad 🙌🏿
Also, no dislikes!!! Let’s keep it that way
@Whitegirlmagic bitch fuck you
@Whitegirlmagic stealing our title and shit
@Whitegirlmagic damn black folks can't really have shit to ourselves
Whitegirlmagic just wow... I’m not surprised though 😔
@@tayaraki4568 It's a black man pretending to be a White girl
I'm brown skin but I never get picked on for this. I never really experienced much about my skin tone. Maybe once in my life so far. Melanin is beautiful. Love it!
Aw the older lady talking about being an angel when she was younger made me tear up.
You're beautiful! You're smart ! That's perfect
I found your channel because you once supported me and I came to return the love. I am not black, but I absolutely love your channel and all that you have to say. I find myself constantly coming back and being thoroughly enlightened and entertained (not always simultaneously) by your content. You are absolutely gorgeous, and I am so sorry that anyone ever had the audacity to tell you otherwise, make you feel otherwise, or spew discrimination and or hatred your way. Much love from Tennessee, xo Lisa
My grandma whenever my sisters and I came over she would always say "where is the pretty one," she was referring to me. I'm lighter than my sisters and skinnier, but I never realized that she was saying I was pretty because of my skin til now. My sisters would always same that I think I'm all that and I would just be doing my hair or something. Colorist has made my sisters not even like me and lowkey hate how they look. I try to tell them not to do perms and that there hair is fine but they dont listen. But I dont blame they for how they think cuz they have always been referred to as ugly. I think all my sisters are pretty but I dont think they know that.😢
I should be asleep right now, but sis has risen 😭😂
The girl who said she's not "deemed as beautiful" is BEAUTIFUL 💯❤
Your skin colour pops so much sis!!!! So so stunning wowww
the ethopian girl with the light brown curly fro was hella cute though....her skin was GLOWING!
People used to bully me for being dark cause when I was 4 I came to america from an African country called Gambia and when I went to school people would make jokes about how dark I was I was in kindergarten!!!!!
But when I was in upper grades like 4th and 5th grade people were like oh your African wow your pretty for an African I was surprised, and when an African boy came to my school people would exclude and bully him for being dark and I was confused cause I didn't know what to do at that time but now I understand but the jokes that I hate the most are oh your an African booty scratcher, stop letting the sun burn you and stay inside like now I understand I gotta stand up for my dark kings and queen this was when I was in 4th grade but now as 6th grader I know what I have to do. Your channel really helped me understand what I was going through thank you❤❤💕
I definitely assimilated a few times trying to accept myself but eventually I began to love myself and thinking my skin is beautiful
I’m a darkskin Ethiopian and it’s always been hard being proud of that. Knowing that these people went through it also makes me feel not alone☺️
☹😊 I've always thought Ethiopians are beautiful. 😀 God made all humans beautifully.
When he said “Will Smith can’t fill every slot” I was like yeah we got Winston Duke, he’s underrated. And 2 seconds later you said Winston Duke/M’Baku 😭😭💜
Nee da swankie bee Winston Duke don’t date black women. His woman is Asian.
So is Beyonce she can't fill in every slot 😫
Thank you for being there for south Asians like me. We need to be there for you too. In the US, black women taught me so much about self love when my culture taught me I was never good enough.
Man I feel bad for my cousin. When we were younger we had roast circles and always roasted one cousin who was super dark compared to the rest of us.
Also the lady talking about being an angel almost made me cry.
Everywhere you turn there is some form of advertisement, entertainment etc that is intended to condition black people(particularly black women) to be ashamed of darker skin. I remember using 'whitening' creams when i was a teen, my mother caught me one time and laughed in my face that i thought i could change my skin color. All of my siblings were light skinned & i was the only dark one, most people thought i was the 'cousin', i was treated as an after thought, even my own mother mocked a darker skinned man that she had seen on our road, in our presence. I cant believe i had ever been ashamed of being dark skinned , it just depends on the environment you were raised in, im glad i came in to my own , regardless that i didnt have positive reinforcement from family.
Thank you for speaking about the indian community and understanding the implications of colorism there... its harsh. I reaally identified with the bengali girl because Ive been through the exact same thing.
I know this is off topic but sis the HAIR the FIT the MAKEUP 🔥🔥😍😍
this is it. this is the look💛
I’m a dark skinned Asian woman, I’ve seen this video before, and I’m glad you touched on how colorism is like a whole other beast in other communities. Thank you for sympathizing, it makes me feel a little more heard.
a girl I used to be friends with in middle school (she was a white/pale dominican and I'm a tan cuban/Colombian) and she always talked about how she was the prettiest in school and how she was raised to be perfect. One day in class she looked down at my arms and my face with a weird expression and said my skin was a weird color. I felt embarrassed for being darker than my hispanic friends and I still carry it with me. A majority of my grade for hispanics are pale dominicans and I still feel some pressure to be a pale hispanic or dominican to fit the standards that the girl put.
Ive had a very interesting experience with colourism. Im from Toronto with a very high population of Caribbeans but my family is from Ghana. In the Ghanaian community im considered lighter, and would always get compliments from older men (yikes) but in the Caribbean community I was considered darker skinned and was still bullied for it.
I cried watching this 😭 all my life I felt I would be prettier lighter
The look you gave in this video is everything!💛
Wow, so proud of you for broaching this topic. I get scared for my 5yr old daughter who is dark skinned, one day she said to me that she wants to look like me (medium tone) and be pretty. Yes we can try our best at home to let them know they're beautiful but school and society still has a long way to go.
Who else heard the " if I turn of the light you will be invisible" that joke I heard that all my childhood. I am dusky not even that dark. I have gonna through the fair and lovely phase too Thank God we are fighting against it now. I am brown and I am proud of my skin ❤️
Your fro is EVERYTHING sis! Loved this video, being a dark chocolate sister myself. It had me teared up. Love ya sis ❤️
I. Am. In. Tears. Thank you for repping the dark skin women & men so damn hard. Thank you for still standing in solidarity with us despite your experiences. ❤️🦄 #unicorngang
I love when you have your Afro! Your videos is so informative. That video is beautiful made me teary eye.
The face, the hair, the earring, the outfit, the SKINNNNN!!! We stannnn
I can tell that this is touchy for you. I want to go back and fight everyone that ever made you feel any kind of way that you shouldn’t have. This is making me mad. When I watch these kinds of things I have to stay in the house.
I've watched "Things dark people don't tell you" a million times and I literally cry every time. I wish with everything in me that I didn't related to the video but I do. I relate with every single line spoken. Being dark has shaped every aspect of my life. Education, career, love life, social life; EVERY aspect!
I prefer not going all out in terms of my appearance so if someone calls me ugly or looks at me like I am, it is justified. Opposed to me putting so much effort and being called ugly.
It's messed up, I know but it happens even when I don't consciously think about it.
I don't like going to family events or any event with my sisters. A relative would come and just praise and make a big scene about how beautiful they are and when they're done, they'd be like "you're also beautiful". I mean it's obvious they are saying that so I wouldn't feel bad... I'm tired of being "also" beautiful. I just want to be beautiful 😢.
I tell ppl very frequently that colorism is global we have to fight it in all aspects and that can be as simple as telling young Brown boys and girls they are beautiful
I love ur videos, but man oh man, I got thru 6:38 and it hit me so hard I couldn't finish bc this isn't JUST stories and a topic. This is our lives. We've all been thru this as black people. It's hard to remember and it's hard that it's so relatable and wide-spread . Love all my people. Thanks for sharing sis.
South Africa is the highest population of Indian people outside of India 🎉💃🏽😊 see this a lot where I’m from but a Majority of the Indian people here are dark skinned, and the country is majorly black. Really makes you think about the underlying issues and where they came from.
I definitely hit the thumbs up before watching right before you said it 😂💕🦄
Leilani Limutau loyalty 😘
My friend is light skin her mom is dark skin and her dad is light. We had went to her grandparents house (mind you her grandma is dark skin). While we were sitting outside her grandmother told her “get out the sun, you’re going to get dark” I was like 😕
yes!!! i'm definitely a light skin black women, but thankfully I grew up in a family full of black people of shades, shapes, and sizes. The older generation of my family really instilled into me and all my cousins that we're beautiful because of who we are and not our complexions. And i know i was told more than a few times not to let the light skin go to my head. because its EASY to fall into light skin privilege. But at the end of the day if you only fw your people when they're a certain color, then you don't really fw your people, and that that's straight up self hate boo. We just all gotta do better and love ourselves enough not to push our racially driven self hate on to the next generation.
Anyone else binge watching Eloho? Thank God I found her and for all these videos! Put that podcast in the description box hun!
Wanna say im in my feelings cause my cause moon is Pisces, but their experiences were too relatable..😞
Love your videos!❤️ I'm ready for that clothing haul though❤️
1:46 omg this is the documentary I WATCHED AT THE SUMMER PROGRAM this documentary has CHANGED MY LIFE.. I learned to LOVE MY SELF BECAUSE OF THIS DOCUMENTARY. ❤❤💗💜💙🖤❤❤💜
You are the definition of a Melanin Goddess, NO CAP!!!
Even in Nigeria, one of the darkest places on earth, in regard to skin color, colourism prevails. Your video gave me goosebumps.
“water sign” 😭😭💀💀 sissss!!!
OMG PISCES!
This is a powerful video. I teach my niece and nephews WHERE colorism started(COLONIALISM/slavery). They are young but being Beautiful black children who have a beautiful dark skinned mother and a light skinned father... They are little brown (black) kids who I've been teaching the importance of BLACK/AFRICAN AND NATIVE AMERICAN history BEING descendents. They are ALSO Pisces like me and they know how much I love to educate whoever is listening about TRUE history instead of the whitewashed versions that's being taught nowadays.
I love your videos. Much love from Nola AKA New Orleans.
This makes me so sad. I really don't understand how people can be so horrible.
Thank you so much for mentioning the colourism in Indian and Asian communities. As an Indian person its really frustrating watching my family trying to wear lighter and lighter foundation- even though we are already light-skinned! When I try to bring it up my parents shut me down by saying that I am instigating hate in the family.... like tf?
Oh my gosh I forgot about Fair & Lovely
My mother is dark skinned and my father is lighter skinned. I always admired the darker skinned women (and men) 1: Because my mom is phenomenal 2: I KNEW they carried something specific to them. I love deep rich tones on any race. I think it’s beautiful because it’s common for your bloodline to have fallen victim to a colonizer (In any sense) 🙄 Rare, almost, for it not to have been. I could truly go on about y’alls skin and hair and the natural grace y’all carry. I hate that it comes with so much hate from within our community. But Y’all carry it royally 💛
I’m so happy you posted this and that this is a conversation being brought up more! Colorism is a real issue! Thank you and you have a new subscriber here ☺️
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As a dark skin girl myself, I can relate to most of these. ppl would come up to me and tell me that I was really pretty for a dark skin girl. When I was younger I took it as a compliment bcoz I was naive. Boys in my class would make fun of my complexion(meanwhile they are like 10 shades darker than me) and whenever I'd get hit on by a boy and reject them, they say things like "fine, I don't really like dark skin girls anyways."
ppl I used to consider my friends would say things like, "oh your mom is so pretty, why didn't you come out light skin like her?" b**ch like I'm responsible for my own genes. But I grew up to love myself and the skin that I'm in.
It becomes a problem especially in my country South Africa where ppl don't really talk about it nor realize it
I really love your channel I live in a house full of light skins and I would be upset I don’t look like them but watching you and your confidence with your skin color yourself really is spreading to me
i get so much hate for dating outside of my race but the only reason i started was when i was younger in middle school black guys that i liked didn’t like me and told me i was too dark or would tell my light skin friend i would look better if i was lighter so when an italian guy told me i was pretty and never said anything about the color of my skin. those things never mattered to him.
I'm not a pisces, but this had me swimming in tears
My mom liked to say we have a natural tan ^_^
You’re so gorgeous!! 😍
The parade angel story makes me so happy 😭
I should be sleep 𝒬𝓊ℯℯ𝓃 Eloho 🙄💕
I wanted to be dark skin. I love dark skin ppl! I am the lightest one in my mom's side of the family and I I automatically stand out because I'm light skin. So that documentary really touched me.
I didn't know you're a pisces! I am too!!! March baby! Yup, swim in our tears all the time
I love your videos, thank you for bringing problems many people don't talk about to light! Keep doing what you're doing because you're actually Inspiring me and others❤️❤️
Facts!!! What a beautiful beautiful video!!! I love the diversity of skin tones from different ethnicities displayed in this video and of course your commentary is everything as always!!! Much luv from one beautiful brown sistah to the next!!!💓💕💕💕💗💖💖💖💞💝
I’m very light skin, way lighter than my family for some reason even though my father is dark skin. I don’t know why I just happen to be lighter but my whole life I’ve felt like people have tried to rob me of my blackness just for my complexion. I’ve always envied darker women and i don’t understand why skin color gets associated with beauty. People make fun of dark skins until somebody is “too light” and now it’s a problem. Like you just said that people my grandmothers Complexion are “way too dark” and then I’m made and now I’m way too light? Ridiculous. People can’t make up their minds, always bringing beautiful people down to make themselves feel more validated. Dark skin light skin, brown skin, white, black, tan, everyone is beautiful in their own ways. I’m sick of this obsession with peoples skin color, I wish everyone could just judge based off of personality and heart.