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This is literally me lmao I could have wrote this myself! Just 2 nights ago I had this conversation with some friends. Very interesting to see the responses. And this confirms for me and the conversations I've had that it is all relative to who you're talking to and definitely regional it seems. I still say I'm dark skinned personally though it feels I've been fighting for those rights lately 😅 I'm serious and I'm not but really I swear this was not a thing growing up for me either and I'm not about to switch up because my experiences are definitely of a dark skinned woman.
I feel each of these tweets deep in my soul!
My mom is light skin but she considers herself brown skin since her sibling are high yellow. She’s just regular yellow to me. In fact in kindergarten I colored her yellow when I drew my family.
I thought my dad’s family was dark skin growing up. One of his sisters refers to them as brown skin.
My shade is in between both of my parents. When I went to a HBCU I asked a guy what color am I and he said “red bone” but I’m definitely not light skin and I do have red undertones. (I add this because I didn’t grow up with a lot of black people around me besides family)
It’s all relative. Again my mother thinking she brown and no one in here would ever call her brown.
At the end unless you can pass you’re considered a person of color.
Light and dark are relative. Black does not exist as a color. You’re LITERALLY Brown.
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Ok bye
All of the labels on skin tone are regional and subjective.
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I’m aware she’s darker not sure what you mean R1…
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It seems the threshold for where it ends and begins is very subjective. I’ve did a little research on this and it seems there isn’t a general consensus some have argued that ‘brown skin’ doesn’t exist. I grew up where you were either light skinned or dark skinned, so ‘brown skin’ is a very new to me.
OP, where are you from?
I’ve heard brown skin all my life. Growing up you were either light skin, brown skin, or dark skin.
Might be regional
I heard term first in university when some Indian kid told me that they weren’t black but brown.
I am truly a “brown skinned girl”. But when I moved to Florida my dark skinned Haitian roommate tried to tell me she was brown skinned and I was “red”….. I’m curious what region are you from and what celebrity would you say you have the same skin tone as?
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Never said you weren’t
As Rectruiter 1 said, "blacks" are really brown. In my country, if you look like T.I. or lighter, you are considered brown-skinned.
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Agreed we are all technically brown. That’s interesting that T.I. or lighter is considered “brown skin” I’m definitely much darker than that. I guess it’s relative, but it does leave me confused
I consider myself brown skin but most black people (where I grew up) has labeled me light skin or yellow. I hated this- not because it was discriminatory or insulting but I thought it was taking away from my identity as a black girl. I started to embrace calling my self “caramel”- but it didn’t really catch on 🤷🏽♀️. But I will say I think there is a true difference between brown skin and dark skin just because the scale for both tones is so vast…no so much for us light skin people.
@ OP, I hate that you’ve have that experience. Black is soooooo beautiful 🤩. My mother was dark skinned and she was always my standard of beauty, I wanted to be darker. I love being tan in the summer because I like to think that I’m closer to her color.
I hate these labels… I think my sisters in all hues are beautiful