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Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.43,0:00:06.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm Black.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.31,0:00:10.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ever since I can remember,\Nthis is how I describe myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.06,0:00:14.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, describing myself as Black\Nwas never something I did with hate.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.99,0:00:17.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was one of those kids\Nthat had to think about race
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.62,0:00:20.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because when you grow up\Nwith a white Jesus,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.32,0:00:23.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you will have some questions\Nas to why he doesn't look like you.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.75,0:00:25.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mother was the first person
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.44,0:00:27.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to really shape my views\Non race and diversity.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.27,0:00:30.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her explanation was simple:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.12,0:00:33.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are people who are Black,\NWhite, Asian, etcetera,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.21,0:00:35.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and although we all look different,\Nwe're all the same.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.78,0:00:36.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that was that.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.76,0:00:41.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was in sixth grade when I found out\Nthat I wasn't just Black -
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.12,0:00:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was, in fact, brown-skinned,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.25,0:00:45.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so in the middle\Nof the Black color spectrum.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.65,0:00:47.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The term brown-skinned is a relative one.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.84,0:00:49.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Compared to whom?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.23,0:00:52.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one knows because it's all made up\Nand varies from person to person.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.84,0:00:56.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, there's a very clear\Nunderstanding amongst most people
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.62,0:00:59.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Drake is light-skinned\Nand Lupita Nyong'o is dark-skinned.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.28,0:01:02.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought, "That's plausible."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.58,0:01:05.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are people light-skinned,\Nbrown-skinned, dark-skinned.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.42,0:01:07.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in my Brooklyn middle school\Nfull of Black people,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.94,0:01:10.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought there was no divide\Nbetween said shades of Black.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.71,0:01:14.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, everyone hung out with everyone,\Nand everyone was generally respected,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.06,0:01:17.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even if there was the occasional,\N"Yo, you mad dark."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.01,0:01:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Basically, there were other things
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.03,0:01:24.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we, as kids, focused on\Nthat determined our social stratification.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.19,0:01:29.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I went to high school,\Nand I began to notice a couple of things.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.35,0:01:32.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I realized that the world around me
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.20,0:01:35.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a little biased towards people\Nwith lighter skin.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.67,0:01:39.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I realized girls with lighter skin\Ngot more likes and comments on Instagram.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.17,0:01:43.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that guys I liked\Nonly went after certain kind of girls.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.17,0:01:46.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I also realized that darker people
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.22,0:01:49.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were not being represented in the TV shows\Nand movies that I was watching.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.89,0:01:50.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if they were,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.97,0:01:53.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were the ghetto\Nall-up-in-your-face like this,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.62,0:01:55.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,secondary character.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.74,0:01:58.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, the effects colorism\Nhad on me at the time
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.71,0:02:01.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were things I thought\NI could avoid and even counter
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.37,0:02:03.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by not giving it my energy\Nand living my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.17,0:02:05.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I did.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.45,0:02:06.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And for a while, it worked
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.83,0:02:10.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I managed to convince myself -\Nif I can separate myself from the problem,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.90,0:02:11.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could avoid it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.67,0:02:14.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That all changed when I got to college.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.53,0:02:18.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because here, amongst all the college boys\Nand college pressures,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.67,0:02:22.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learned a lot about myself\Nand a lot more about the world around me.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.66,0:02:25.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the first time,\NI no longer had the safety net
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.69,0:02:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of having people\Nwho thought exactly like me.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.24,0:02:31.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the first time, the spectrum\Nof brown wasn't a spectrum.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.59,0:02:32.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a dichotomy.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.85,0:02:34.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You were either light-skin or dark-skin.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.82,0:02:36.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was considered dark skin,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.34,0:02:38.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people didn't see\Nthat as a good thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.06,0:02:40.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, of course, no one said to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.85,0:02:42.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Amaya, you're dark-skinned,\Nso you're ugly."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.100,0:02:46.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there were plenty of microaggressions\Nthat made it very clear.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.33,0:02:47.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, the whole:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.82,0:02:51.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It's not that dark-skinned\Ngirls are ugly.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.52,0:02:53.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just have a preference\Nfor lighter girls."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.58,0:02:58.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was here that I realized\Nthat colorism is alive and well,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.87,0:03:01.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people don't like to talk about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.90,0:03:04.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what is colorism anyways?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.30,0:03:06.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Although this is not a new phenomenon -
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.16,0:03:10.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was finally coined in 1982\Nby Alice Walker, who defined it
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.28,0:03:14.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as prejudicial or preferential treatment\Nof same-race people based solely on color.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.27,0:03:17.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The key term here is same-race people,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.94,0:03:21.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which makes it just a little \Nbit different than plain racism.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.51,0:03:22.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's kind of like this:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.77,0:03:26.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if America was a tree,\Nand its roots were racism,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.13,0:03:27.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,colorism would be like a leaf
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.78,0:03:30.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stemming off of the branch\Nthat's Eurocentrism.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.14,0:03:35.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is because since Europeans\Ncame into contact with Africans,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.36,0:03:37.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they believed that they\Nwere the better race.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.69,0:03:40.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this whole idea that light\Nwas better than dark -
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.66,0:03:42.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because white was better than Black -
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.74,0:03:44.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,never really went away.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.67,0:03:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is bad
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.93,0:03:49.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because this means that not only\Ndo darker Black people
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.71,0:03:53.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have to deal with racism from white people\Nand people who aren't Black,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.57,0:03:57.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they also have to deal\Nwith harsher treatment from other Blacks
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.26,0:03:59.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they're darker\Nthan a brown paper bag.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.98,0:04:02.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are so many reasons\Nthis phenomenon is problematic.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.72,0:04:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, for the sake of time,\NI'll only share a few.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.08,0:04:10.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colorism creates a stereotype\Nabout what acceptable Blackness is.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.08,0:04:12.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It creates a model Black, if you will,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.06,0:04:17.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and colorism pits Black people\Nagainst each other,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.28,0:04:19.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is what the white man wants.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.59,0:04:23.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So understand that light-skinned people\Nare not to blame for colorism.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.58,0:04:25.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They can't help the way they were born.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.80,0:04:28.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, light-skinned\Nprivilege does exist
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.09,0:04:31.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because along with these views\Nand notions and stereotypes
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.96,0:04:34.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what acceptable Blackness\Nis come negative views
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.96,0:04:36.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and notions and stereotypes
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.56,0:04:39.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of people who do not fit\Ninto this "whitist" Black box.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.34,0:04:44.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These stereotypes include:\Nbeing less educated, more ghetto, uglier
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.73,0:04:48.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, overall, less proper\Nthan their lighter-skinned counterparts.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.16,0:04:50.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is seen\Neverywhere throughout time.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.100,0:04:52.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's seen in minstrel shows
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.36,0:04:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where white men would dress up\Nas a dark caricatures
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.12,0:04:58.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and look almost idiotic\Nto make fun of Black people.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.18,0:05:00.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's still seen in television today
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.39,0:05:03.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where dark characters\Nare used as tools by writers
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.44,0:05:05.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to contrast light characters,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.29,0:05:09.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that the lighter characters\Nseem more vulnerable and soft.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.70,0:05:12.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, Penny Proud\Nfrom the Proud family
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.15,0:05:13.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and her best friend, Dijonay Jones,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.96,0:05:17.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with their eight brothers and sisters\Nand a hard-to-pronounce name.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.10,0:05:19.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or Pam and Gina from the Fox show Martin.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.41,0:05:22.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's also in critically\Nacclaimed literature.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.82,0:05:25.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, Toni Morrison's\N"The Bluest Eye,"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.25,0:05:27.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the main character,\NPecola Breedlove,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.26,0:05:29.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was told over and over again
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.38,0:05:32.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that because she was dark,\Nshe was not pretty.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.02,0:05:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she internalized that,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.28,0:05:35.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that made her\Nhate light-skinned people.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.02,0:05:38.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reason why this is so problematic
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.43,0:05:42.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is because darker people\Nwill go to drastic lengths
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.30,0:05:43.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to become this model Black
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.07,0:05:46.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to receive the privileges\Nassociated with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.33,0:05:50.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is why Caribbean people\Nbleach their skin.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.56,0:05:52.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is why women tell their children,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.70,0:05:55.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Don't go outside for too long\Nor you'll get too dark."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.65,0:05:59.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is why some dark men,\Nand women, in fact,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.32,0:06:03.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,find the lightest person they can\Nto marry and have children with,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.27,0:06:05.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that their children\Naren't dark like they are.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.60,0:06:11.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This percolates the self-hatred\Nand pits Black people against each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.40,0:06:13.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another thing to understand -
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.88,0:06:16.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pitting Black people against each other -
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.13,0:06:17.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not a new phenomenon.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.65,0:06:20.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was used during slavery\Nfrom white people to divide and conquer.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.88,0:06:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,White people do it now\Nfor the same reason.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.00,0:06:25.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you get Black people to hate each other
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.08,0:06:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for something so natural and biological\Nas the color of their skin,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.75,0:06:31.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's less likely\Nthat they'll come together,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.80,0:06:34.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which means it's less work\Nyou need to do to stay in power.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.91,0:06:38.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This phenomenon is shown best\Nin Spike Lee's movie "School Daze"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.35,0:06:41.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where one highlight\Nof the movie is a musical scene
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.05,0:06:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where light-skinned and dark-skinned women\Nspew insults at each other, including:
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.03,0:06:47.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,jigaboo, nappy-headed and wannabe.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.31,0:06:53.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,White people will also use this\Nto excuse their racist intentions
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.15,0:06:54.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or notions.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.80,0:06:57.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By giving these model Blacks\Nspecial privileges
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.16,0:06:59.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and helping them rise to the top,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.32,0:07:02.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they can hold these model Blacks\Nover the rest of the race, saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.83,0:07:04.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The system isn't the reason\Nyou're failing.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.96,0:07:06.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at these people:
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.09,0:07:08.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're succeeding.\NYou're the reason you're not.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.73,0:07:10.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These model Blacks ...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.53,0:07:12.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are succeeding."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.80,0:07:15.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the craziest part is ...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.58,0:07:18.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this isn't even a phenomenon\Nonly seen in the Black community.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.11,0:07:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Communities such as the Asian,\NSouth Asian and Latinx communities
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.68,0:07:24.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,experience the same thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.68,0:07:27.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colorism in these communities\Ntakes many different forms.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.91,0:07:29.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether it's a Chinese laundry commercial
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.87,0:07:32.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,featuring a dark man\Ngoing into a washer machine
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.67,0:07:35.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to become a lighter, more Chinese person
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.37,0:07:38.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or Filipino people being told
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.22,0:07:40.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they're at the bottom\Nof the Asian totem pole
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.55,0:07:42.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they're dark.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.70,0:07:45.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Bollywood, there's\Nbeen an outcry in recent years
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.23,0:07:48.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because Bollywood movies\Nuse too small of a range of skin tones
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.99,0:07:51.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to represent the entire Indian population.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.18,0:07:53.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a result,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.18,0:07:56.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some people have started countermovements\Nto counter this harmful propaganda,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.90,0:08:00.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as Nandita Das and her\N"Why Dark Is Beautiful" campaign.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.72,0:08:05.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Latinx stars such as Amara La Negra\Nreceive significant backlash
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.25,0:08:08.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over trying to break the mold\Nof what mainstream Latinx stars look like,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.83,0:08:11.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including hyper-scrutinization\Nover her hair and skin,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.38,0:08:16.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being accused of Blackface\Nand not even being considered Latina.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.84,0:08:20.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So because this is something\Nthat affects so many people,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.63,0:08:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you'd think it's something\Nthat more people spoke up about.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.44,0:08:27.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yes, there's been increased interest\Nin the whole colorism thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.36,0:08:30.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, the reason it's not as loud
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.51,0:08:33.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as it could be is because people\Nthink it's natural.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.53,0:08:35.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They've never been exposed\Nto anything different.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.82,0:08:37.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's what they grew up on.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.43,0:08:40.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And even if you did grow up\Nin a household like I did
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.63,0:08:41.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you were taught
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.70,0:08:44.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that your Black's beautiful\Nor your brown's beautiful
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.17,0:08:47.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that your dark skin was great\Nand your hair's also great,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.74,0:08:49.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,once you walk out that door,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.74,0:08:52.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you will feel all\Nof the effects of colorism.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.56,0:08:53.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Period.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.44,0:08:56.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what was the point\Nof me telling you this?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.90,0:08:58.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I believe the famous quote goes,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.98,0:09:02.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The first step to recovery\Nis admitting that you have a problem."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.40,0:09:05.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yes, there are a lot\Nof problems out there - er, Trump.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.42,0:09:09.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, the reason they're being fixed\Nis because there are people out there
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.78,0:09:12.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are working tirelessly\Nto get the public
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.18,0:09:15.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to acknowledge that there's something\Nthat needs to be fixed.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.52,0:09:16.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is one of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.12,0:09:19.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't have one\Nparticular solution to colorism
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.54,0:09:23.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I'm one girl,\Nand I've had only one experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.57,0:09:25.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, I do want to stress something.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.17,0:09:28.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once America and the rest\Nof the world, really,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.99,0:09:31.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recognize that colorism isn't natural,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.57,0:09:34.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that instead it's been instilled\Nin our minds for generations
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.93,0:09:36.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that lighter is better,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.40,0:09:39.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we as humans can start\Nthe decolorization process.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.70,0:09:43.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to kick this to the curb\Nand leave it in our past
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.37,0:09:46.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because do we really want\Nour time on Earth to look like this?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.00,0:09:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.08,0:09:51.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)