My name is Ramisha Cox, and my blogs will strictly be about skin color. Have you ever heard someone say, "Shes pretty for a dark girl", or "Light skin is always in?" How did it make you feel and why? I will discuss why people think it's okay to say those things, why they believe that it's true, how do we get everyone to see the truth, and much more. When reading my blogs have an open mind. Understand that I'm passionate about what I speak on, and that I will be as honest as I can.

I have always been interested in why some people think that it's okay to categorize others by skin color. My interest actually started when I was in high school. Like most, during my freshman year my friends I wanted to know what organizations and groups to join whether they were official or unofficial. We can across a group of called themselves "LightSkins". They were all African American girls who were of a lighter tone. What stuck out the most about them was how they acted, what they would say, and how they treated others that didn't look like them. To them, they were the superior ones because of the color of their skin. I couldn't understand why they thought that they were better because of their skin color, but deep down I knew that it wasn't right. As the years went by I did a lot of research, and I learned why some people think the way those girls did. 

Skin color does not make anyone better or worse than the next. People use terms like "lightskin" and "darkskin", but why? Why does that even matter? Why even use those words? Who do we blame? Google "beautiful women" under images and see what pops up. Outside of about five dark toned women all of the images are pictures of women with light toned woman. Why is that? It's obvious that the media glorifies women of a lighter tone. It's showing that it's more accepting than women of the opposite. People have to understand that not everyone is that same. 


 Every Saturday I will post a new blog on the subject. I'll relate back to the time period were we weren't even born all the way to the present day. Feel free to comment and reply back to my blogs. I'd like to know what you think and how you feel about them.