Soul Train Dancer Sharon Hill Explains How She Overcame Colorism |Soul Train Awards '21 

Sharon is your Mother? Wow! I enjoyed her interview! One of the best ones. God bless.

Nice to meet you!! Your mom was always sweet, respectable & beautiful YEARS AGO...and remains so today. I know you're proud of your mom.

Your mom MADE my Saturday mornings tell her thanks!!

@@fjenkins5494 VERY proud of her. Thank you 😊

@@Stromboli916 Nice!! I love hearing that and she will too ❤️

Wow! She's beautiful 🤩🤩

@@bbutler7158 Totally in and out.

@Lisa Blakely You're blessed to have such a tremendous, triumphant, trailblazer in your bloodline. I fell in love with Ms. Sharon just from her interview. She reminds me of my late mother's sweet spirit and mild mannerism. Blessings to your family. 🙏🏾

I actually see some of the resemblance! Your hairdo is probably part of that lol.

SAD. I'm light skinned and went through the same exact thing. I wish people would except love ALL of us in our beautiful shades♥️♥️♥️♥️ I'm glad she's happy with a great long lasting marriage👍👍👍

Well, if Black men would stop dating so many white women than more Black women would feel cherished but I guess its that slave mentally that they can never let go.

She just seems so good natured, those mean kids could probably see that and spit on her, it wasn't about her, they didn't even like themselves, the human race has always been a hot mess since Adam and Eve ate fruit from the tree of knowledge

It isn't Ignorance. Ignorance is when u don't know. PEOPLE KNEW. People know. Then and now. People are willing to accept anti-blackness and BE ANTI BLK. There are no excuses for colourism.

I also tears up when heard she said. I wasnt cute or pretty but able attract many handsome guys when grow up. Because they like my simple character

@@moonraker30You want too know a real fact , if there was a table whites could take to give them self colour , they would op for her shade of black , why , cause the fake tan , they get , wears off , black don't crack !!!

You are fearfully and wonderfully made.No matter what the complexion you are never a mistake.

I totally agree, dark skin holds up later in life than light skin, I have two light skin cousins that look much older than me and my sister., so I get it..

I guess i was fortunate in my household some us came out light, some dark. My parents never mentioned light/dark complexions etc, I remember my grandma mentioned complexion & my mom cut contact. My parents just shielded us from the dark vs light thing so I never knew there was a difference between blacks until late high school.

A great story, great attitude , not caught up in the hype. Jeremiah 29:11&13

YES MF MA'AM

Colorism is real

I know, right?

Absolutely, my sister and I watched Soul Train faithfully every Saturday! Always thought Sharon was one if not prettiest dancer on Soul Train, she and Tyrone were the best couple ever. They danced so good together me and my sister always thought they went together as boyfriend and girlfriend. She was gorgeous back then and has aged gracefully now. Much love to you girl!!!!!

This just absolutely blows my mind. She is incredibly STUNNING!!!!!

Me too. I remember her and always thought she was the prettiest one. She still is gorgeous.

@UCysT-s_8QHdNdaKk2lDnIQQ Get the fuck over it!!

Something tells me the ones who spit on her wasn't black. Plus people are allowed to pick who they want and attracted to

@@tomjones3629 you clearly don't know what colorism is then... & no shit, but completely missed the point of what she was saying! 🙄

@@GETOSUPASTAR no I'm well aware what colorism is. I didn't miss anything she said. Bluntly speaking the only ones whining about and making weak remarks are darker blacks. Lightskinned blacks don't sit in groups and complain about different hued blacks

@@lashid4u371 I had a similar thought. I think Soul Train lost some of its "soul" when they allowed non-black people dance on the show.

White kids spit on her. That hurt.

Love you DeSheila, Sharon Hill-Wood😘🦋

@@JohnDavis-uc1ic Absolutely abhorrent right? Especially for someone so freaking nice and sweet.

@@candiwood1758 Love you too

She shouldn't have had to mature to embrace it, the world shouldn't have been antiblack and that's the saddest thing about it all. Because the onus is put on the people being hurt not those hurting people. So so ridiculous, right?🥺

The movie was good too

@@bonnies7805 wait, there was a movie?

She is gorgeous

YyeeesszzZZ

You obviously haven't learned about racism? It was built on the ideals that we were lesser than . Please stop being ignorant

@@riveraspen2745 if you watched the entire video and wasn't commenting on BS then you would know Sharon thought she was lesser. All I was saying is that with her beauty she could never be lesser to anyone no matter the context. Next time read the intent behind the comment before you posted some BS, especially trippin with me.

Secret trans

Fine as wine with her green eyes that comes from slavery white supremacy bullshit I hate that she is fine

Me either. I have mixed emotions about this. She led a very fortunitious life after leaving Texas. Yet people are projecting their insecurities.

Dido Patricia!

Yes, the fashion influence was definitely unprecedented. Me and my then boyfriend would mimic the fashion and we dressed alike most of the time; and with my love for sewing, I created our outfits. We got married in the mid 70's!! I believe Soul Train also brought couples closer.

@@christiebussey1285 You making the clothes for your then-boyfriend turned husband to dress alike is iconic. I'm totally loving it. 🤗

@Patricia Watkins The "Soul Train Rules" is classic! ❤

On point, Sista Queen....I'm from Birmingham UK and when Soul Train was on TV our living room became our disco, furniture pushed back ready for the high kicks and getting down with me and my 5 sisters...we wanted to be dancers like them and infact I actually became a dancer for a few years until my 1st child came along. Those were the days when dancing 💃🏾 🎶🕺🎵 was proper. BRING BACK THE 70s I say!!! 🙏🏽💜

Nice 😊 story 👌🏽 👏🏾 👍🏼 😀

IKR and Pat is still with us and we need to hear her Soul Train story.

Yep I'm 61 I can still hear that Soul Train coming on.

" SAY IT LOUD!!...I'M BLACK AND I'M PROUD!!

Self loathing obviously.

Amen we are amazingly made from Head to toe we are unique and the haters know it But yes it's a shame when we use colorisim against one another

Black is beautiful your melanin is shining thru

Amen sis

people get it so wrong. I am light skinned and always admire our chocolate sisters. I have never thought I was prettier or better than anyone on this earth. got carmel babies because I married a chocolate man. didn't want my kids to through the b.s. sad that society does this. sharon you are beautiful girl

Blacks who grew up in her era were made to feel as if they are inferior based on their skin colour. That is what misled her into thinking that her skin colour wasn't attractive.

Mic drop

I agree her smile is so beautiful, her smile reminds of Cecily Tyson and Nia Long.

I can see the resemblance of her and Cecile Tyson too

She is beautiful and was raised right thank you for the memories

You was on soul train too God bless you

Yes this was the best. So happy for her. She’s such a beautiful soul. No wonder God blessed her. She overcame her struggles, and has a husband who chose to love her even till this day! 🙌🏽

YESSSS, I felt proud again. Sharon sure could boogie!!!!

Amen

@Chy So I wasn't the only one that cried from the pain Ms. Sharon experienced from stigma of colorism. This queen is my newfound shero. I'm inspired by her purpose in the midst of her pain and her victory in her vulnerability. Moreover, your comments are so eloquently stated. Thank you for your enlightenment, Chy. Many blessings to you.

Oh, this was absolutely beautiful!

Yes you are! Jehovah does not make ugly people Inner beauty is beyond words Just simply beautiful gorgeous graceful I could go on ! I feel like you are a friend and I don't even know you! Positive Sharon,.Janice Harley

❤ 💙 💜 💖 💗

Me either I watched it twice. And about to save it to watch again. 🥰

Right! My mom is light and I’m dark. People would say the same thing to me. Most of my family is dark. My grandfather use to call me black snake because I was so thin and all she did was laugh😆

Any black person who hates black skin is a white supremacist

I am not sure why the older generation put that burden on us. My mother was very light skin, I am medium and my son is very dark. When I gave birth to him, my mother’s first words were “why is he so dark”. Well, I put a stop to it immediately. I told her not to ever say anything negative about my son’s colour. He is beautiful! From get go, I did not allow my light skin family to even think of saying or doing anything negative to my son. Twenty six years later, he is a confident, handsome dark chocolate. We need to stop.

@@Ina-ne4wt I experienced that with my sons features. Even though me and my kids are lighter my son has a bigger nose and my mom, who is dark skin, said why is is nose so big? We don’t have noses like that. But she had personally told me stores of how people talked about her skin tone. But she’ll turns around and call people big nose, big lips or “nappy” headed. I don’t understand why people keep pushing this foolishness. Nothing wrong with African features.

@@symonelopez-mondy8946 The more European features you have the more attractive and appealing people think you are. I notice in the UK there are adverts with dark skinned, African looking women. I am so happy to see this. I have also noticed a lot of very dark handsome models, modelling well known brands. I think things are changing, albeit very slowly. My son has been approached for modelling a few times. But he loves his career, so nothing happening there.

Pat Davis~ I'm so grateful that The Lord in Heaven caused the paths of YOU & SHARON HILL to cross. Me being a SOUL TRAIN Dancer to, you both are like my Beloved big sisters. I'm HAPPY that you both are in my life♡

I think it's time The Butterfly does a Soul Train interview; you are truly a Soul Train legend; you must have so many stories!!!!

Well put Patricia💃💃💃

She's incredibly real and candid.And not to mention she really is a beautiful woman,those who.think otherwise are the brainwashed sheoples.

@@umarbentley4953 Yes, my brother. Houston region is terribly afflicted by colorism, like the Deep South. Elsewhere in Texas is less worse.

Someone in their late 70s, from Jersey I know, grew up the foster daughter of rich "black" professionals in 40s, 50s and early 60s. Father was ambiguous black and mother was light skinned. Mother was also part of the NE black elite, but hated her daughter and so did their relatives, often criticizing her for being "dark" and "undeserving". They never adopted her (despite finding her as a child) and the mother passed her inheritance onto her adopted, light skinned son. This lady is well regarded today, by people of all walks of life and now living in Texas, bristles at the mention of Houston, Galveston, or New Orleans. Why? She says colorism. She lived in suburban Northern Dallas for a good 6 years, before heading further west into the TX metro area that borders NM and MX. She HATES that Gulf region with a passion. I honestly never got it as an 1st generation immigrant, until I looked at Mathew Knowles, Tina Beyince, and Beyonce, and also watched this video.

@@jmin8400 actually Dallas (North Texas region) was just as bad with racism and colorism if not almost worse. My mom grew up in the 70s and 80s in Dallas and told me brutal stories about the colorism and racism she and my dad experienced when she was in college

@@Adgegbe50ag Wow, really? Aren't you Igbo btw? I admit although I grew up in Texas, I am immigrant and not as immersed in these things. I lived in a predominantly Mexican area, so I didn't see a lot of these things manifest in front of me. Only with Latinos more so. That lady hated Houston in her opinion for that reason, yet her oldest of 4 kids, is a child of a marriage with a man with a Spanish surname and much lighter than her siblings for some reason, plus very arrogant for that too according to her mother... My dad, most of my siblings and grandmothers were born as such, while my mother (60s) and one of my younger sisters (late 20s), were both born a darker shade of brown. Seeing this story, recalls what they went through with colorism. I don't know where I lie in that respect , because some people describe me as light skinned and some don't. I've never really experienced colorism, outside of microaggressions towards me from some folks (being in the sun). Like racism, you are not going to know about it, unless you are in the shoes of those affected by it I guess. I have always felt not at ease in DFW and I never understood why. Mostly due to my impression, it's a little too cowboyish and unfriendly to me in some respects, compared to Houston.

Exactly. And people mostly commenting about colorism instead of racism.

Amen

Jacqueline girl you are so beautiful 😘

@@l.w.wallace6904 thank you!

@@jacquelinelowery5589 you're so welcome darling

Same here and Sharon’s smile could light up a room.

The one where she's wearing that hot pink outfit I'll never forget that ☺

Don't say it as if it's unusual. Many black girls today feel the same thing, thousands if not millions. We never genuinely look at a dark skinned girl with regular features and tell her she is beautiful We perpetrate it upon each other and then act shocked when someone voices it. We choose light skinned over dark skinned everytime, ooh and ahh after mixed babies and then is surprised when a black girl thinks she's ugly and then chastise her for voicing her pain.

Don't say it as if it's unusual. Many black girls today feel the same thing, thousands if not millions. We never genuinely look at a dark skinned girl with regular features and tell her she is beautiful We perpetrate it upon each other and then act shocked when someone voices it. We choose light skinned over dark skinned everytime, ooh and ahh after mixed babies and then is surprised when a black girl thinks she's ugly and then chastise her for voicing her pain.

@@patriciarambert9261I will say it as I feel it and that goes for anyone who is naturally beautiful the only reason people play those types of mind games on other's is because they are jealous and wish they looked like them. Also please don't use the word we you aren't speaking for me and I personally know countless others who feel the same as I do. This white skin light skin good hair madness needs to end. Those same white skins have always been in the sun trying to get the very skin color they claim is sooo awful. The same with the lips and behind. The times they were calling folks ugly they were in schools trying to invent a way to get the same things. Smh

I wish, growing up in the 90s and 2000s we diddent have to go to these underground parties, she's completely right, today's popular music, despite having all these professionals connected, still doesent hold a flame to the hits of that time, and dancing is either hip hop or ballet and there's really no major cultural in between like there was. Regarding those kids, their exactly the worst type. To be so openly vile, I'd almost compare it to the hatefullness of the Nazis, how was it ever acceptable to spit on anyone. I hope karma takes action.

Happen to have known two people from San Diego that was dancers on show, the late Emanuel Francois and Robin Hood.

Respect for telling your TRUTH, Brother!

@ Archie Burnett Thank you for your honesty; we've ALWAYS had very few role models on TV to mold ourselves after. We were lucky in the 90s with the Cosby show a different world fresh Prince of Bel-Air and a few others I can't remember at this time. We got to see US in a positive and proud image!

"D@m I never wanted to be like another? I always was proud of who I was, just wanted to be respected, treated fairly, make enough money to pay my bills and not be stress out cause the rent keeps going up, never coming down ect... Lol...I'm so glad people are educating themselves more and more learning to like themselves and not let selfish people mess with their minds, and the parents that teach and raise their children with respect?

@Archie Burnett well said!

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No lies detected

she done told you colorism was eating her soul, what we see as proud black was a minority within a minority. colorism consumed blackness the same way that racism did and still does. our elder great uncles were despicable colorists

@@PHlophe Research the Black Arts Movement. The Black Panther Party. The Black Power Movement. Luckily for you dear heart, reading a zillion books, academic journals, periodicals, etc. on the subjects will NOT be necessary, as it was for me. Just casually peruse the mini computer velcro-ed to your palm. Words of caution, take special care to utilize CREDIBLE sources, then holluh back. Next page please. 📖

And we stuck together and watched out for one another. A nation mindset. Not an "individual".

@@lesliewarnell5172 absolutely those did exist and i cherish that part of self loving movement and academics from the era but those were niche and pocket spaces. I have a whole collection of inspiring academic material handed down to me by my mother and i have expanded it too. I love me some BP but we need to hold this L. the current 3 generation of BM are unbothered colorists and the one that is young right now has produced a large number of embittered dusties that are bold enough to go online and insult a whole ethnicity fo women. The neeeerve that they have , the nerve.

Yes they did that 🏆🏆🚘🚘.