Is it just me, or does implying that people of darker complexion as colored...?
537022
That is what it implies to me.\nI never refer to people by their complexion unless I'm at a loss, and then I use light complected, medium complected or dark complected. Never colored or black or even African American. They are American. I am American. I am not pale or Irish/German American and would hate to be categorized like that. I feel using the word "complected" refers solely to the fact that people have different skin tones, rather than being an ethnic or racial term.
319760
if its somebody elses' truth does it apply to you??? its mostly circumstantial and relative. but i guess there is always the truth that there must be black to be white, up to be down, here to be there, unless your nowhere.
979458
Maybe their not intimidated by your skin color, but because of your beauty.
726509
I see your view! But it is mighty funny how we see every other race trying to be like us. It seems as if almost everybody wants to be black so bad but yet they put us down. But I know why it's because we are unique we have our own style that some will never understand. Don't trip off of what others think about us just be proud that we have so many haters. We must keep on doing things to make them hate on us and continue to move on. But I also see the points of others some black people give off that vibe and make that reputation for us. But I don't because I know that I am not the stereotypical black person I am aobve others expectations of  what black people are.
676658
Are you saying this in a racist kind of way??? Because IT AINT FUNNY! some people are really sensitive about this stuff....
743079
that is so true!!! i hate it.What are we suppose to say? even if you say dark skin or something close the say its racist.I agree with yew!
1072073
I think its cool that some "white" people want to express that they are not just one race, but what i dont like is when a person with dark colored skin tries to explain they may be half white hispanic or indian is told by a white person no you are black because they're skin is just dark. ex halle berry is the first african american to win an oscar or whatever... what the hell shes HALF white does that not count for anything?
977378
THEY PROBABLY HAVEN'T SEEN ENOUGH OF THAT SPECIFIC RACE TO IDENTIFY ANY DIFFERENCE. ALSO, IT COULD JUST BE OUT OF PURE IGNORANCE AND THEY JUST AUTOMATICALLY THINK THAT THEY LOOK A CERTAIN WAY BASED OFF OF STEREOTYPES.\n\nEXAMPLE- THEY THINK ALL BLACKS HAVE WIDE NOSES....NOT TRUE\n                     THEY THINK ALL BLACKS ONLY HAVE BLACK HAIR... NOT TRUE\n                     THEY THINK BLACKS ONLY HAVE BROWN EYES... NOT TRUE\n                      THEY THINK ALL BLACKS HAVE BIG LIPS... NOT TRUE EITHER\n I THINK YOU GET THE POINT. ALSO HOW CAN WE LOOK ALIKE WHEN WE HAVE SO MANY DIFFENT SHADES OF SKIN COLOR.\nWHO KNOWS WHAT THEY REALLY SEE WHEN THEY LOOK AT US
573544
Don't know what you are talking about but , different colors look different on different people, whether man or woman everyone has  a certain color that looks good with their skin tone or eye color.  You just have to experiment
583461
Unfortunately, there are still ignorant people who judge people by color. People are people, regardless of skin pigmentation, good, bad and in between.
470888
I think it's similar to "race discrimination" it's only the whites that do it.\n\nhttp://thebaldchemist.blogspot.com/
362345
yes I have been watching the show off and on and I think that the only person that is really getting anything out of the whole thing is Rose. It seems to me that she understands that we as people from different back around can't full understand why we feel, think or act the way you do.And not all groups of people are the same within or out of their group.\nJust like you I am half not just black and white; my mother and father like black but they are mixes. On my father side of the family just about everyone is light almost white skin-ed and me and two other of the grand kids are dark but from the two that is dark I am much lighter then them. And on my mothers side of the family we are all the same skin tone just about but I am the white girl in the family. Because I try to keep an open mind about things. I think if I was in the show I wouldn't know have I would feel trying to act white or black just because to me I am both and more and I like being who I am.
571190
be accepted...From some of the talk I think this has slid race relations back twenties years. The legal hispanics will get dirty looks and receive the same resentment just because of their skin color. I've already heard hispanics this and hispanics that. Dirty, lazy, freeloadin, criminal, gangster, drug dealers and all the other cliched stereotypes.
1136795
geeze im not even black and the way some people answered ur question is terrible , cmon people this isnt very becomming of u. all the black hate stuff isnt called for , knock it off. god its a difference in skin color thats it , my god how low can you be people!
869745
Not to be too la-di-da or flippant, but we're all African.  It's the cradle of the human race.\n\nNothing wrong with acknowledging the shared experiences of people who share your skin color, though.  Especially when there's still so much racism, explicit and implicit, in the world.
265078
Here's a sincere answer:  No.  It has nothing to do with race.  Don't believe generalities like that when you hear them.
1088938
Do you mean vary on the one person depending on how they feel? ie going green with illness, red with sunburn etc?\n\nOr do you mean vary between individuals, ie Africans tend to have darker skin than Europeans?