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To: Ilaine who wrote (55276)	10/28/2002 6:16:12 PM
From: Condor	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 281500

*" I have no idea why lighter skinned blacks look down on darker skinned blacks, "* This thread has beat the topic of blacks vs. blacks mercilessly. I think it speaks volumes about this thread. Blacks have been discussed here as if they were items in a zoo, unthinking and unfeeling. The posters on this issue surely assume there are no blacks that read this thread, that no blacks are being provided with copy from this thread and that the world at large (whoever that may be) is OK with all the summary comments being made about blacks. I don't know about the rest of you, but this is making me very uncomfortable. I thought we had evolved beyond this type of thing years ago. Obviously we haven't and I hope that lurking academics, sociologists, media and black activists ( vis a vis Jewish defence leagues) are paying attention. We've got the WASPs having a field day analysing the blacks in America without their representation. Bad kharma. :o( I would be VERY interested to know if I'm alone in my thinking. C

To: Ilaine who wrote (55276)	10/28/2002 6:16:37 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 281500

Part of the prejudice (Favorable prejudice from the whites running to the lighter skinned blacks, and unfavorable prejudice from the darker skinned blacks against the lighter skinned blacks) I am sure had to do with the fact that lighter skinned house servants might be the master's (or the master's overseer's or the master's son's) offspring. And because of that connection they would get the plum positions as house servants. In the book Scandalmonger Safire makes a point in one chapter that this "breeding" was a way of increasing the stock which was winked at in the South, especially since it was likely to produce valuable and aesthetically pleasing house servants (the aesthetic standards of the time being set by whites, since they were the ones in power). If those lighter skinned blacks were offspring of someone in the family it would make sense that they might have privileges denied to other slaves.