“My Family Is From The Caribbean And We Do Colorism So Well”: 11 Moments From “Light Girls” That Had Us Talking
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Victoria Uwumarogie
Hair And Compliments Being Turned Into Negative Things
A common thread in some of the interviews I witnessed were women saying that as young girls, other girls tried to attack the things they didn’t like about these women. Hair was even being threatened to be cut off. As actress Rolanda Watts put it:
“They threatened me every day that they were going to cut my hair. I actually had white kids on the school bus who were hiding me in the back of the bus when the black kids wanted to cut my hair.”
Ear lobes were ripped by tugging at earrings. Fights were started over people thinking they’re “all that.” And as Dr. Steve Perry pointed out, compliments were turned on their head: “You think you’re so pretty”; “You think you’re so smart”; “You think you’re so cute.”
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