Re: Colors

> From: Mike Adams
>
> I know in some cultures color means wealth, since those who have the
> money can afford, and if that culture is one racial group, white vs
> black, then color is a way to differenciate between races?
>
> I know in some groups, light black and dark black are also seperated by
> some, many in the black community. Some have said it is due to the
> supposed fact that light blacks have intermarried to be lighter cause it
> is more economically helpful, also easier to pass. I know my Grandfather
> was supposedly Native-American in part, but he passed..
Unfortunately, the majority of "light blacks" got that way not because they
"chose" to intermarry for economic reasons, but because their grandparents
and great grandparents were the sexual victims of their owners.

The advantage came because those same owners preferred to have the fairer
skinned slaves working in the house rather than the fields.  Thus, "house
niggers" were granted a more privileged position.  None of this, however,
was by choice.

David

David E. Bell
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