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Colorism: How complexion and hair texture remain polarizing issues among Black Folks

Colorism: How complexion and hair texture remain polarizing issues among Black Folks

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"Team Dark Skin" vs "Team Light Skin"

"Good Hair" vs "Bad Hair"

"Jigaboos" vs "Wanna- Be's" (School Daze)

"Passing"

Each of the above topics is a vestige of the wicked Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and brutal slave conditioning that Europeans inflicted upon Africans throughout the Diaspora from 1619 to 1865. Thus, I was honored to join my Spelman Sisters Joy …

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