Kelly Rowland’s First Experience with Colourism | Tan France: Beauty and the Bleach - BBC 

exactly pure ignorance smh.

Colorism is embedded throughout our global society. I’m surprised you’ve never noticed but I’m glad you don’t agree with it

Ebony Tool Man Productions website design: too dark chocolate 🍫. QUAYAGE: 1980.

Okay... but don't act like you don't understand that people are colourist. Like obviously "wtf" and 1000% to all you said about her, but the reality is that people don't care about ANY OF THAT, they associate being darker as being the exact opposite of everything you said about her.

@@musiclover-cn7tb ignorance is when you don't know. They know exactly what they're doing.

I came here to say just the same!!!

I totally agree and still is. And she speaks well also.

Absofcukenlutely!! Without question

@@melanatedqueen : I concur with you and all commenters above. It’s the same as the darker Sista in Hous Party movie, she was much more attractive than the lighter skin chick. Not hating on light skinned Black people, but some times they have an inflated ego.

@@richbarrett6380 you hit the nail on the head. Oh man, the stories I cld share are endless. "Friend" & other friends made a plan for first friend's bday bash - a dinner. First friend says last minute I want to introduce you guys to new boyfriend, everyone objects because most were single and those with others wld have of coz wanted to bring them. She does anyway. Guy didn't get introduced somehow and I got bored & I left with my best friend. Followed out by two guys who offered we go to another place which we did. Hooked up with one of the guys on said evening and woke up tomorrow to a mil plus messages of first friend asking if anyone had seen a guy wearing ABC driving ABC car. My brain caught up with self & realised he was in my 🛌 nxt to me I thought oh crap. Woke him up he said ey, her and I jus met nothing even happened, call her right now. Told him out of my house stupid. Felt bad so confessed and she broke down and her EXACT words were "Of all the women here, why her!? She is darker than I am!" (Happily so) I thought ooooh this is where we are taking it, called the guy back and did him once again for good measure just because. She has never introduced a guy to me since and we haven't spoken either. But hey hoo.

Have you noticed who is denial about it? Light skinned people

@@user-Mimi622 not only is it not your fight it don’t affect y’all why would you I bet you don’t believe there’s such thing

​@@maiamiimaiam4343 yup, they'll never know what it's like!Across many ethnicities, especially amongst women, it's always that lighter is better. Although dark skinned women may have beautiful facial features and are very talented,just being darker kinda limits them. It's sad the society we live in.

CLOCK IT but the ignorant got stay ignorant

Same here ❤

Same

Yes , I looked to her for fashion tips

Yeah, my ex boyfriend was in love with Kelly-Beyoncé was invisible to him.

Which guys you’re talking about. Not black guys. Their favourite was and always would be a Beyoncé type first.

Wow u hawt Mr Scott

Kelly had a UK #1 single before Beyonce did.

@Jess Ryan Which is the definition of downplaying. Comparing someone to someone more successful is downplaying.

@Jess Ryan Why is it necessary for you to steal Kelly's thunder. Go and hate somewhere else. This thread is about celebrating Kelly's achievements, not comparing them to Beyonce. How many awards has Beyonce got compared to Tina Turner? It's irrelevant and neither Tina, Beyonce or Kelly would want to argue that their success is more valid than the others, because as black women, they recognise the struggle for black women to achieve success. Why are you so obsessed with diminishing a black woman's success?

@@Beckford4000 it's sad that both can't be celebrated they have done a lot for black women I admire them for that the comparisons are what made kelly feel like she wasn't valuable shame on the person who shamed her skintone.

@@Beckford4000 Girl u compared Kelly to Beyonce 1st and now ur telling somebody to stop comparing Kelly to Beyonce? Girl pls shutup. Ur comment was also so unnecessary. U could have just said Kelly has a #1. And ofc she has a #1 before Beyonce. Kelly started her solo career 1st. Duh

Because people need things to be made CLEARER to them. Especially since we tend to overthink as humans regarding our worth.

In Hollywood celebrities get lighter and lighter. I don't know what they're doing. Kelly used to be darker.

Periodt

@Denver Mahara...Man speak for yourself so-called ''black people'' are not a monolith. Black people don't even exist all people of African descent have brown skin tones to varying degrees. How do you want to battle racism when you use the racially created terms by white people to define yourself? Do you see society still calls Asian people ''yellow people'' to a large degree ...NO. There is no such thing as ''mixed black men or women. You are either mixed or you are of authentic African heritage.

@@dylandylantoriyama5370 you have issues. You better calm down.

@@dexteray pple aren't ready for tht kind of brutal honesty. In families it exists, hell i first experienced it at 8yrs old. I was shipped to boarding schl many years ago, a girl not much lighter than me nicknamed me "the princess of darkness". I'm not far from Kelly's complexion but in a schl with a mil white kids and two black kids, one of us had to be the predator and the other prey I guess and she beat me to it coz I was a very shy & quiet child. Funny thing, after she had been expelled & nobody else ever called me tht.

As a race, we’re not intellectually intelligent enough to have this conversation because too many idiots in our race think this way. I mean everyone knows those blacks “oh I can’t go in the sun I’ll get black” WTH like you said that out loud like it makes sense. Or “ooohhh your baby is pretty what is he or she mixed with?” I mean the stupidity is a bottomless pit in our community so I don’t see this conversation being productive at all yet we claim black excellence. No what we really mean is black excellence if it’s mixed with another race.

RU-vid might delete this comment because it could be deemed as controversial, but for the sake of humanity and the future of black women who are little black girls today I will make an attempt: Many of these mixed race people with black fathers and non black mothers who hate black women will in the future be Judges, lawyers, doctors, nurses, public school teachers, and hold other occupations that traditionally have executed unfair treatment towards full blooded black people and they will have an anti black whyte ideology. If you look at the coloreds in South Africa who are just as racist and bigoted towards the black South African as the whyte South Africans upi can see how they execute harsh treatment towards black South Africans. In the future the full blooded black population here in America will be greatly diminished and mixed race people with black fathers will be the new overseers of full blooded blacks. These people will be the interviewers on the jobs you seek, they will be the police that pull you over and treat you worse than whyte cops, they will be the judges that will give you longer sentences, and they will be the public school teachers who will target full blooded black children-especially little black girls for suspension from those schools. What you seeing today in how mixed race people with black fathers look at and treat full blooded black people-especially full blooded black girls today will be a 1000000x worse in the future.

But she did

She didn't change her complexion ​@@psychomammiescaught2506

Who hurt you

Good point.

@@infintyplusNo one hurt her she’s spitting facts!!!

I think the point is the bigger picture social issues rather than Beyoncé herself or Destiny’s Child

The issue here isn't her beauty it's her skin tone. In fact, in some instances, the more beautiful a dark skinned woman is, the worse she'll have it, because there are people who actually think you shouldn't be that beautiful if you're that dark (insanity, I know). Add that to the fact that she grew up in a group with someone who was lighter; and favored, and perceived as prettier by some, more talented by some, and more worthy of attention by many. Kelly became successful despite the odds that were stacked against her, and that's just one of the reasons I root for this chick (even when she gets on my nerves☺️).

It’s a privilege to not be able to imagine another’s struggles. Hope you’ll continue to learn and be empathetic towards it

You must have seen only 2 black women in your life i guess 😂😂😂

@Luc Goulet....Hally Berry ''black'' ? she mixed and is half British (white)

She has sold more than 30 million records as a solo artist. That's huge to me

Meanwhile in the other part or the world a.k.a in big parts of asia, here the darker ur skin is, the more u get bullied.

No need to compare BOTH are insanely beautiful

​@@TitiLectric this tho 💯

Stop capping Beyonce is just as beautiful

Precisely! She’s also pretty without 30 pounds of makeup,