So not too long ago I used to talk to this bum ass dude that goes to my university. I thought he was cute at the time but then he showed his true colors. Iâm a light skinned- caramel complexion and one of my good friends( we will call her Tay) is a beautiful, and I mean beautiful dark skin girl. If I can be honest, there was a point of time I low-key used to
envy her, not in a hateful wayâŠI guess you can call it admiring, but I honestly thought she was so perfect and I couldnât fathom why any guy would ever dare to pass her up. Well one day she and I went out to a party, the fuck boy I used to talk to was there and he and I had planned to go eat at IHOP after the party. Turns out he was with a friend of his as well, this ugly ass stank face, ashy, crispy, fool whose hairline looked like missing puzzle pieces and he thought he was the shit. Iâm not sure who lied to him tho. We will call him Cam.
For reasons that are beyond me, Tay had a huge crush on this fool, but she was super shy. So after the party Tay goes to talk to one her friends for a bit and then I go and find my guy and we start to talk. I kind of figured I could try to set up a sort of double date like thing for IHOP and I let him know that Tay was feeling Cam and that we should try to get them together. I guess he wasnât paying any type of attention because he didnât know who Tay was and hadnât seen her that night, so i pointed her out to him and by this time Cam had came over near us. My guy whispers something to Cam and they both burst out laughing. Iâm real confused at that point and I just see Cam being mad extra talking about âLeave me out of it Bruhâ and âdonât play me like thatâ and blah blah blah. So I ask them whatâs up and Camâs ol ugly ass says âIma have to pass on the offerâ so I ask him why and I was telling that my friend was a baddie and I wanted to know what he had against her. This ashy ass ninja is going to have the audacity to open his mouth and say âI canât do dark skinsâ. đđđđđđ. The stupid ass ninja I was with starts laughing and heâs like âman I didnât wanna say it, sorryâ. Mind you, Cam is a very dark skin dude of Ghanaian descent, he has a beautiful dark skin sister who also goes to our school yet he had the audacity to open his mouth and say some shit like that. Iâm not going to lie I was a bit speechless at first because even though Iâm aware colorism exists full and well, that was the first time I had ever seen it happen so blatantly against someone that I was close to.
I stood their for a good 10 minutes debating with his ignorant ass on why he was ignorant as hell and questioning how he as a dark skin person himself could disregard women who bare the same features as him. Both them fools kept going back and forth about how âitâs just a preference and how they didnât like when dark skin girls wore weave.â I got so fed up I told both of them they werenât worth shit, got Tay and we bounced and went off to Dennyâs by ourselves instead of IHOP. I was really afraid to tell her what happened because I didnât want to hurt her feelings, but she insisted and i figured she deserved to know the truth so she wouldnât still have her hopes up for that dumbass little boy. She kind of played it off but I could tell. She was hurt. I sent her long heartfelt text message later on about how she was beautiful and a lot of uplifting stuff. Thatâs basically how me and the other ninja stopped talking tho, because Iâm sorry but I have no patience to entertain ignorance and coon-like behavior.
Though I am lighter and do not share the same experiences as darker skinned women, I feel that still as a black woman nonetheless, it is my job to uplift and look out for other black women as much as I can because in the end it seems like all we have is each other. Ladies please donât let the comments from these trash ass men get to you, your melanin is beautiful and you are what lights up the universe. Your black will always be great. âșïžđâšâšâš