By any chance are your parents siblings because how can you even come up with that conclusion? No this is not a personal issue any somali girl who is darker skinned that I have interacted with has dealt with colourism in the past. Now do I understand that Alhamdulilah some girls may not have this experience? Yes, but by branding this as a personal experience you’re downplaying the extent of colourism within our community. Secondly, were did I say other communities are accepting of their own features? I am not mentioning these communities because I don’t belong in them, therefore they don’t affect. The reason I take more of an issue with somalis’ colourism than western is because it hurts more when it comes from own people. And how am I black supremacist by acknowledging the fact that lightskin aren’t the majority? Most somalis are brown & darkskin meaning they should have most of the representation. I am not against lightskins get love, however it becomes a problem when they are become the centre of our beauty & when we don’t fit it we get crap for it. Lastly, somalis aren’t racially ambiguous. Ambiguity means I can’t tell what you are, which isn’t the case with somalis lol. And if you want to talk about pride, save that conversation for somalis who constantly put lightskins/biracials on a pedestal while simultaneously put dark/brownskins down.
I was not talking about colorism, I was talking about her BULLYING and than claiming that Somali people are terrible.
Btw it's interesting that you can say my parents are siblings and imply that I am either slow as a result and than complain about colorism. So you think it's OK to discriminate someone with a disability which they can't control vs their color?
Like I said knowing their is colorism, weight, ageism etc doesn’t mean you are damned to be bullied or abused in your home. What she described is abuse in HER home and applied it to the whole Somali community. There are plenty of darkskin women who have healthy homes and lives.
You are black supremacist by saying the usual trope that Somalis are wannabe arabs and want to show only light. I've been to Somalia and most ppl are brown, dark and light. It's wrong to say everyone is light versus everyone is dark. You complained about ppl using only lighterskin women (which is wrong) but used that to say we are all darker.
I used other races to support my point. I don't care what you care about. My point is all societies push a certain look when it comes to beauty. America pushes thin, white, attractive and young people. My issue is making it seem like Somali people are so terrible when this done everywhere.
And when you say they show lightskin women where do they do this? On YouTube? And how are you so sure that they creators are even Somali? What I noticed is most Somali models that the West pushes aren't even light. Iman is brown and so is Halima. That's the mid range most Somalis fall into. I've never seen Reer Xamar models that look Arab light, pls show me where?
Somalis look down on interracial marriages and don't even consider Somali biracials Somali. Yet we put them on a pedestal lol? Funny. You don't know much about Somali culture. Make it make sense pls?
I have half Somali relatives who are half white and they get treated badly. Outside of fetishizing light skin (only if it is a woman) they get treated like aliens. Somali Arabs are considered a minority aka .5 tribe with less power than the other tribes. Hawiye have a lot of darkerskinned people and have the most power in Somalia now. I've been there and was born there.
You are brainwashed by black supremacy and use their taking points. They put biracials on a pedestal and every chick who is light even if she is ugly thinks she looks better than a black woman. No sane biracial Somali woman would think she looks better than Iman. Hell Sabrina Elba stood next to Maya and was as confident. You got the wrong community abayo.
Lastly we are ambiguous even when we are dark. We are a minority group in the world. Some even view us as exotic. I've traveled to places where they don't know our look and they can't pinpoint where I was from. Unless you are familiar with Ethiopians, no we aren't common. We aren't like Indians and Chinese ppl or white ppl. You must live where there are a lot of Somalis. They even used to pull our hair when we were kids.
?This topic would have been fine if it's the Somali community, but having discussed in away to browbeat Somali's just to get more followers is lower vibrational thinking and it brings other people weaponize your words towards your community.
