Would you marry a prince for millions if you didn’t love him?

@Tatted Diva

for the record you have a beautiful face. Not sayin the rest of you isn’t beautiful just looking at you avi. Your skin? Flawless. I’d kill for that. Anyway im considered “lightskinned” and im not telling you this for the reasons you think. Some people in my family are really smug about complexion. well i’ve done some research into my family and it looks like at least 2 of my ancestors, my mothers great grand mother and my grandfathers mother were raped or at least coerced into sex by white men. In one case in a boarding house where my great great grandmother worked (the only job available to a widow in a small town in tx in the early 1900s). In my grandfathers mothers case after she (aged 15) and her 2 little brothers were orphaned on a farm in Louisiana where her father sharecropped, the farmer let them stay in the house if she “serviced” him. When another relative finally found out about the death of her father that relative arranged for her and her brothers to sneak away to texas but the girl was already pregnant. So in a lot of cases being lightskinned is nothing to be proud of. At least 2 of my ancestors are rapists.

@jayyeller

I have that avi because I think it’s pretty. and how can you say im on some ish because im talking about my family history? that i have researched and basically confirmed thru the older people in my family. my only point is that sometimes the light skin came with pain. im not talking about people these days who choose to date mate and procreate with whites. thats fine with me i don’t care. but it’s still alot of colorstruck people out there. and i was just pointing out that the smug people in my family really have nothing to be proud of. and if some other people research they may get a surprise to. you said women been having kids by white men since we got here and if you think those women back in the day had a choice and choose to procreate with white men then you are on some ish. some may have made the best out of it but they didn’t have a choice. they do today and that’s their choice but colorism is very real in our community and your comments on a regular basis reek of it.

@ Jayyella

Also, most mixed kids from slavery days came from BLACK SLAVE MEN and WHITE WOMEN.

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I heard of instances of that…but i need a link to some research that say most of mixed kids came from white women and black men. I do know that up north some white women married free black men. Not so much the case in the south. But remember I was talking about my family and said some people might need to do some research. If they find they came from loving relationships between blacks and whites then good for them I didn’t find that to be the case for some in my family.

you also said: “Black women need to stop acting like they are just so beautiful and desirable that white men couldn’t control themselves and was raping them like hot pancakes… NO”

Rape and coercion in most cases doesn’t come from the fact that the perp finds the victim “so beautiful” the bottom line was that white men owned or had power over these women. they would have been considered “property” or things to do with as they pleased. That included flucking them if they wanted to.

And if you read my comment I never celebrated what I found out about my great grandmother and my great great grandmother. I said others in my family are smug about their complexions not knowing where some of the genes came from. and BTW the incidents that i was able to research happened after slavery in the 1920s and 1930s do you thinks my grandmothers could go to the police? they would have been greeted with

you said “So again, I ask what color are you, or are you just saying you are lightskin to prove a point to TattedDiva?”

to give you an idea i use revlon colorstay aqua makeup in medium deep which is the same color halle berry uses. My mother is often mistaken for white or hispanic. Her father was the child that the 15yr old was pregnant with when she left lousisana that i was telling tatted about. He married the granddaughter of the widow who worked in the boarding house that I refered to. My father was a brownskinned man. hope that helps since you must know.