Just in case you are wondering about how many times Vinicius Jr is attached by racism and colourism - here are a few stories

https://www.nottheonlyone.org/?search_query=vini

#Racism #Colourism

#Microaggressions #racism in #Switzerland and the #world
Why do I have to explain? Ethnicity and identity are not the same thing!

Initially I wanted to put a CW, but no, I want this to be wide and clear. If you think like a person I am about to describe, please unfollow, please stop speaking to me.

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I'm a bit tired to have to explain that I am Swiss, I was born in Switzerland, I lived all my life here, did all my studies here, I have French as mothertongue and this is who I am.

I've been called today to yet again explain why I say that I am not Portuguese? No I'm not, I don't want to be, there's nothing wrong with being Portuguese, but that's not me.

Your ethnicity doesn't define your identify, those things are unrelated, they can be similar but that's not guarantee. Thinking or assuming the opposite is a form of #racism known as #Microaggressions.
And this form of racism is even worse when it comes from your closed ones.

Your skin color doesn't define your identify, making assumptions about who you are or asking "but where are you really from? " based on your skin colour is called #colourism

The same goes for any other questions like:
- but you parents where xyz
- you can't deny you are xyz
- you can't deny you come from there
- that's your nationality not your origin
- but what really is your origin
- you should be proud of your origin
- why doesn't your kids speak xyz origin language
- you're not a real xyz anyway
- you're not white

These are all #Microaggressions and they make you a #racist.

Ask yourself this: Where was Michael Jackson from? If you see his old white face and think American but you wouldn't do the same for any non white person living in the #USA or for when he was younger, then you have work to do.

I'll leave you with the following. We all live on the same planet, stop assuming colors, race and erthnicity have any correlation to identity. Every individual has an identity that is their own, don't assume anything. And if you ask, accept the answer, don't follow with another judgmental question or affirmation. We all live and die the same, let's start to live and respect each other.

Yes. I'm Swiss.

This reminded me of the following video:
https://youtu.be/-aaJMvyEjTw?si=KidcQ6xYUjOs7d8i

#Racism #Colourism in the #Goth Community

Dark Entries: Goth's Hierarchy of #Whiteness - YouTube https://m.youtube.com/@CemeteryConfessions/videos

#CemeteryConfessions

#Shonalika of #PowderPaint. #music #musicians

Dark Skin & Getting Married | Stand Up Comedy by Saikiran
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aTUiGWJinX0

This dude is hilarious! Because it's so true. "Eat white things so you have a white baby" is a thing in my parents' generation.

TIL what a manglik is.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangala_Dosha

#colourism #india #indiancomedy #standup

@CurryGoat don't worry about it. It was something I really needed to hear when I was younger. My parents never instilled self confidence in my skin tone. On the contrary, my mum was brainwashed by #colourism, and I learnt that dark skin was ugly from her and my grandmother. Coupled with racist abuse and my mum's experience of #racism growing up, it meant I hated being brown.

I'm cool with it now though.

@CurryGoat I was taught that the ideal for beauty was white skin, blonde hair, blue eyes. Part from the media (and racist abuse as a child) and part from Indian #colourism. My lighter skinned sisters were considered the pretty ones. My oldest sister and I were the dark, unfortunate ones. No one told us that we were pretty.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdct3OKOxHc

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BlOHSbf9XGI

When I was 12, I told myself I'd start using skin lightening cream as soon as I was 16.

#SocialMedia #Colorism #Africa #BlackAmerica #Colorist #HateSpeech #Why #Colourism #Jamaica #AfricanAmerican

https://vocal.media/humans/black-man-compares-his-jamaican-wife-to-burnt-waffles

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Time for another Angry Black Woman thread, this time in honour of Erica Ifill.

We all know the rule:
The darker you are, the calmer white people need you to be.

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I ask her what she thinks about people who agree with her message, but believe her delivery is ineffective at best, and divisive at worst.

"Fuck my tone... My job is not to placate your feelings, right? Facts, not feelings. What happened to that?" she wonders.❝
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https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2023/09/04/yes-erica-ifill-is-angry/396152/

https://archive.ph/yCvxs

Erica is darker, even, than I am.
(And people wonder how #colourism came to be. 🫠)

#TheDarkerYouAre #Racism #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #colorism #AngryBlackWoman