What exactly is colorism, and why do we keep hearing about it on 'RHOP' 'Love and Hip Hop' and 'Basketball Wives'?
The Big Picture The Real Housewives of Potomac’s season 7 reunion featured an intense and poorly executed discussion on colorism. Andy Cohen rightfully chose to step aside in the discussion, but because there was no one onstage without the proper knowledge to run the conversation, it fell flat. More recently the topic has risen up again due to the racist comments Erica Mena made in her fight with Spice on Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta, which ultimately led to her being fired from the series.
Robyn Dixon ran to go comfort Mia, even though she was the perpetrator, not the victim. Mia threw her purse at Wendy’s head. Not once did Wendy get up or physically attack her, and yet they put the blame on Wendy, who was, again, not at fault. The ladies suggested on stage that there was a colorist aspect to Robyn’s behavior. Wendy is a dark-skinned woman with Nigerian heritage. She was the victim in this scenario, and Robyn’s defense as to why she ran to comfort Mia was flimsy at best.
“When you talk about Latinos, there’s Salma [Hayek], Sofía [Vergara], JLo, Shakira. These are the standards of Latinas but you never mention women who look like myself. I always say there isn’t a Latin country that doesn’t have Afro-Latinos… I’m not trying to separate Afro-Latinos from other Latinos, I’m trying to put us in the mix. We’re not mentioned, ever. It’s crazy that people tell me they never knew there was Black people who spoke Spanish.
“A division of labor based on birthright justified by moral and religious concepts. The Brahmins held the most power in Hindu society, they were priests, otherwise known as the spiritual and intellectual leaders of the society.” Colorism also plays an unfortunate role in American society when it comes to criminal justice. According to a study done in the early 2000s by Harvard University,
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