For Tuesdays Black History month on Tales of A Lame I'm going to be focusing on things I think should change in the black community. These are just going to be based on my opinion of things I have experienced and observed.

Today the topic is light skin vs dark skin.

This has been something that the black community has struggled with since the slave days where the lighter skinned workers got to work in the house and the darker skinned workers had to do the labor. This issue has been talked about many times, in Spike Lee's School Daze, and a couple of years ago when everybody did #lightskinswinning or #darkskinswinning, and now where people on social media are fetishizing mixed babies.

If we were to really go in to this issue it is not even just a problem in the black community parts of the world like South America, Asia, and Africa believe that lighter skinned people are more beautiful.  

But the thing is we need to be content in our melanin. 

We have internally accepted this damaged way of thinking that whiter is better. We must focus on ourselves and believe that we do not have to lighten our skintone in order to be beautiful, we do not have to lighten our skintone in order to be accepted. And just because someone is lighter doesn't mean that they are automatically better and think that they are better than darker toned people.

Dark and light skinned black people are all equally fighting for justice and struggling against discrimination.

In the end we are black.

And I can't wait for the day where race isn't even an issue and people can just be human.