The Black community has its own sort of embedded racism, rooted in society’s unconscious bias toward lighter skin. For years we applied this standard against our own people. But where did that bias come from? Born from white supremacy, colorism among African Americans grew from the belief that whoever had features closer to those of the White slaveholders (often the biracial children of raped slaves) was more valuable, was more beautiful, and as a result would be treated better. This belief has caused deep divisions within our community as lighter-skinned African Americans treated with
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