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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Why aren't Jamaicans black? Don't people consider Bob Marley black?

[–]HeyImSancho 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think it's more a dig at how Kamala's own father apparently said she's portraying herself far different than she was actually raised; too boot, I've also read that her family owned slaves. Both of these aspects, will cause scrutiny over what she states, or portrays herself as; yet, sometimes, that scrutiny can obviously fall short in many ways.

Having said that though, I lived on a Caribbean island; Kamala's actual light coloring would place her in 'higher class'; at least from what I saw, and experienced. Racism is alive, and well within those communities, as well as Latino communities; always the race away from being called too 'Native', or too 'dark'.

So in Mexico, the skin lightening, sun screen, or whitening aisles have huge selections, while in the Caribbean, hair straightening, and I guess the same lightening aisles were astonishing to see.

[–]2436400138 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Kamala's actual colouring doesn't place her in a higher class. That is wrong. What is true is that a person of her colour is more likely to be from a higher class.

Bob Marley is an excellent example of a very high colour man who was from a lower class. His Trench Town address and his poor background matter more than his colour in that case.

Your understanding of our culture is very shallow.

[–]HeyImSancho 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Kamala's actual colouring doesn't place her in a higher class. That is wrong. What is true is that a person of her colour is more likely to be from a higher class.

Bob Marley is an excellent example of a very high colour man who was from a lower class. His Trench Town address and his poor background matter more than his colour in that case.

Your understanding of our culture is very shallow.

Okay, do you realize what you just wrote? You openly acknowledge exactly what I was referring to, and then defame me for noting such.

That's not shallow, that's deceitful, and not well thought out.

EDIT TO ADD FOR CLARITY: You literally by way of that last post, affirmed my very 1st post on this thread!.