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Dsbw being seen as "eurocentric" vs mixed women being seen as "real black ppl"

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I saw this tweet just now and this person made a great point
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Whenever dsbw are praised, some people feel the need to call them out for having "Eurocentric" features, but most black people accept mixed people as black and black only. No "Eurocentric" features even though a lot of mixed people have a high percentage of white admixture. I just think some people don't want to see dsbw be great, so they have to knock them down a peg somehow.

And these same people who suggest that we don’t hype up dsbw who are Eurocentric almost never hype up dsbw who only have Afrocentric features. What are your thoughts?
 
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I can see "Eurocentric" is the hottest word of the month right now.

The tweeter is right. I don't understand the mental gymnastics involved in saying that a dark skinned woman of all people has "Eurocentric features"...only to bend over backwards with genetic calculations explaining how someone with a whole Caucasian or Latina or Asian mother is Black.

Hiding one's bias & insecurities behind that "bLaCk CoMeS iN aLl ShAdEs!!" nonsense is not only getting old but it's stupid and pathetic.
 

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There's so much truth in that. They will argue that someone like Lupita or Duckie have eurocentric features, but then I've also seen some fonts say Mariah Carey and Megan Markle look black. It's just mind boggling honestly
 
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Yes exactly. People will find 50/11 ways to defend white passing mixed race people but when they see Duckie Thot, Naomi Campbell, etc., then comes to the “Eurocentric fEaTuReS” comments!
 

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They just don’t like those features on dark skin, that’s the real issue.

I never understand telling fully black people they have Eurocentric features, like how sway?
 

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They just don’t like those features on dark skin, that’s the real issue.

I never understand telling fully black people they have Eurocentric features, like how sway?

I think it’s a mixture of jealousy insecurity and colorism. A lot of us were taught that we can’t make it in life because we’re black and that dark skinned people are the least attractive so to see dsbw thriving makes some people uncomfortable and that’s where the Eurocentrism comes in. Those dsbw in the modeling industry are only successful because they have Eurocentric features!

Meanwhile it’s crickets when mixed models are mentioned.
 

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I think it’s jealousy and insecurity. A lot of us were taught that we can’t make it in life because we’re black so to see dsbw thriving makes some people uncomfortable and that’s where the Eurocentrism comes in. Those dsbw in the modeling industry are only successful because they have Eurocentric features.

Meanwhile it’s crickets when mixed models are mentioned.

I almost wonder if psychologically people think the DSBW can ONLY be attractive with Eurocentric features, hence why women with clearly African features are attributed to Eurocentrism.

These people stay exposing themselves because they scream “We all Black” when someone is clearly biracial with limited or few clear black features. It’s like they think LS/BRW can be attractive in their own right regardless of features.

They have to find someone way to discredit beautiful dark women.
 

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Because a great deal of our people align dark skin with unattractiveness, so when they come eye to eye with a beautiful dark skinned black woman, they begin to dissect her ethnic make up to distance her from blackness as much as possible. Because how dare you be dark skinned and attractive?
 
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I mean, how else are they supposed to justify a dsbw being beautiful.

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"Eurocentric! Yte woman dipped in chocolate"


Now excuse me Sista, while I converse with the 1/8th Black Nubian Queen.

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This subject is so nuanced.

No one has Eurocentric features, you have features that are considered more attractive by Eurocentric standards/ ideals.
Let’s atleast get that right.
 

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To many , you only really black if you look like Viola Davis .
Precisely! And even then, there’s room for the Viola Davis and Naomi Campbell types in the world! There’s just all these weird ass restrictions on what black people look like and it’s weird because we are the original people!
 

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PREACH!!

Fonts on LSA will stab you in both eyes if you dare say that 2c/3A hair, with light skin, and blue green eyes is NOT common among any ethnic group of black people.

Cause you know “mY bLAcK AunTY aNd fEmALe cOusInS aRE pAlE wItH 2B hAIr aNd LiMe GreEn eYeS!!!”

But a slim to slim thick dark skin black woman with long 4a/4b/4c hair and cute button nose or slim nose and full lips is Euro centric.
 

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Oh and notice how this is with women.

Yet with men its the darker he is the more black he is even if he is tall, in shape, and has a slim nose. He represents blackness but the woman isn’t really black.
 

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Because a great deal of our people align dark skin with unattractiveness, so when they come eye to eye with a beautiful dark skinned black woman, they begin to dissect her ethnic make up to distant her from blackness as much as possible. Because how dare you be dark skinned and attractive?

Yup and it is ONLY with dark skin black women.

I knew a woman who would purposely go after dark skin men, but describe dark skin as “dark as sh!t” . Yet she was immensely jealous of dark skin IG baddies.

She is currently a baby momma to a cheating baby daddy who had her working while she was 8 months pregnant and originally denied the baby.
 

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This reminds me of the Iman interview

White people used to say she was dipped in chocolate


Yup, and some people used to say that Amara La Negra looked like a white woman in blackface

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So Iman and Amara look white but a mixed person with green eyes and a thin nose and thin lips is the blackest person on Earth. Make it make sense.
 

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Yup, and some people used to say that Amara La Negra looked like a white woman in blackface

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So Iman and Amara look white but a mixed person with green eyes and a thin nose and thin lips is the blackest person on Earth. Make it make sense.


It's officially an attack on Dark skin women who present well. Dark skin women who are considered "desirable", sexy and feminine to large groups of people. Dark skin women who maintain their beauty and engage in self-care. It's a threat to some.
 

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I agree with the Ladies posted above, But There is A LOT OF MENTAL illness and Crabs in a barrel pathology. Mix those two and It explains a Lot of the Unfortunate Fuckery that Takes Place in Black Society world wide
 

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Exactly!!! I posted that Tweet in that long ass thread on Eurocentric features. They stay trying to claim that someone who looks like Robyn Dixon is blackety-black, but somehow Anok Yai and Duckie Thot look "Eurocentric." Make it make sense.

Also, I completely agree with the font that said this only happens to DSBW. A dark skinned black man would never have his racial makeup questioned like this. He would be black all day, every day.
 

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LOL at @Bob hope and @AskJa claiming "this is nuanced." Gtfoh! You know it's true, and you just don't want to admit it. I bet y'all are colorists, and that's why you don't want to face the truth.
 

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(Also putting the mixed light skin thing in is weird because that’s a whole other conversation)


She has a point about "small" features, but she's not addressing the issue being brought up here and in the original Tweet -- these kinds of racial breakdowns are only done on beautiful DSBW as a way to separate their beauty from their blackness. It's as if people think a DSBW is only considered attractive because of how many supposedly white/Eurocentric features she has...a claim that looks real funny in the light when these same people then go on to say that a woman who looks like this is black because "black people are the most diverse in phenotype":
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The hypocrisy is sensational.
 

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How come when its LS/mixed women its "black comes in all shades" but its not "black comes in all features" with DSBW. Most of the time its literally black women straight from Africa that get the "eurocentric" label slapped on them. Makes zero sense.
 

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the same people that argue attractive DWBW have eurocentric features are the same people who will fight tooth and nail to argue BLONDE HAIR is not an exclusive white trait and black people can have blonde hair too (therefore wear blonde wigs) then proceed pull up that ONE poor Melanesian kid with blonde hair. Pure stupidity.
 

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No one talks about this with light skins because the conversation started with dark skin models with small noses being the only ones hyped up. Anyone that brings up preferred features knows that light skin is included. This is a convo among people who showcase the beauty of dark skin women and some of the women are wondering why the noses are all on the smaller side.
 

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This is so true. People can find the blackness in people who are mostly white but have a problem with Africans with smaller noses. It's so weird. People on this do it allllll the time on this site.

This thread is a good example:
UPDATE: Phyllis Hyman was fully black. “Italian mother” is a rumor. Pic of her parents:

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Her mother looks very white but she was considered "black" because of the times. Fonts were arguing up and down she looked black...
 
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the same people that argue attractive DWBW have eurocentric features are the same people who will fight tooth and nail to argue BLONDE HAIR is not an exclusive white trait and black people can have blonde hair too (therefore wear blonde wigs) then proceed pull up that ONE poor Melanesian kid with blonde hair. Pure stupidity.

LMFAOOOO

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