hi! welcome to Mayowasworld alright ya'll
to be completely honest with you, im not in
a good mood, im a cancer so I'm just stating
that off the bat, im not in a good mood I
have a lot going on, I'm very stressed out
but I really want to make this YouTube video
I have a lot of change happening in my life
that I don't want to say until im in a better
place to talk about it, but I just want to
make this video and keep it pushing.
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first off, check out ya girls phone case,
the girls could never! that is the first update
I want to do, first off listen I have to make
my entrance
if you see me like this, don't talk.
who?
who do you know with this?
she was pumped, I was so lit, and im about
to get my nails done tomorrow, she's gonna
be a whole new bitch
im excited.
thats the first update
now to get to these tik toks
I discovered tik toks on colorism and it gave
me life.
there are so many tik toks on colorism not
all of them are good
some of them are very offensive some of them
are very mean, some of them are blatant like
'look how ugly dark skin girls are'
but I don't want to do those on my channel
because I don't want to add to the defamation
of dark skin women I wanna do tik toks that
I thought were funny and cute and inspiring
and truthful
that brought me joy, so im going to review
them.
for those who are new to my channel I talk
a lot about colorism because that is something
that im hella passionate about so today were
gonna do colorism and tik toks so its fun
but im never gonna stop talking about this
because as long as dark skin people are systematically
oppressed I won't shut the fuck up about it.
so for all the tik toks im gonna put their
handles, because I want to make sure I pay
homage to these people who are making very
incredible content.
so lets get into it
that is so fucking cute
oh my god
don't cry
wow
oh my god
this is water color on my face so it will
come off
I didn't realize how insecure I was about
how dark I am until I watched that video because
you know, im older now and colorism looks
very different then when I was in high school.
so many people will always say things like
oh I can't see you
oh youre the blackest one
oh youre burnt
and I think people say it as jokes and I hear
it til now and its really sad because the
associations with being dark are so fucking
mean
its so fucking mean it's stuff like
youre burnt
I can't see you
things that erase your identity
which is already erased
so when he was doing the tik toks it just
reminded me of when people will say stuff
like that and I realized that if I take a
picture with somebody I'm always insecure
that they're gonna make a joke like 'oh youre
so dark' or 'I can't see you'
I didn't realize how that still carries with
me - or if im with somebody who's lighter
and youre kind of waiting for a comment on
how dark you are or just being the darkest
person in the room
but then in the end he's like dark skin is
so beautiful and I smiled but another part
of me was like I feel like its considered
more beautiful on men
so im still waiting for that moment when im
like omg society is like yeah!
cause its not.
and just the way he looked, the way he smiled,
and he's wearing pink and maybe it was the
Lorde music playing or something but wow
cancer season!
its not even cancer season
"they look the same
but
they taste the same too but I like this one
because my preference"
yo
the amount of times ive heard that, when youre
young and I feel like there's always going
to be colorism
there's always people in the comments like
its my preference
its my preference
and im like bro, your preference is rooted
in white supremacy
lets get with it okay?
lets get into it
im exhausted
your preference is rooted in white supremacy
babe if your preference literally only has
people who are light skin,
I don't know what to tell you, someone needs
to tell you
if your moodboard and everyone is lightskin,
someones gotta tell you
its not a preference anymore
and thats gross, I remember when I was in
Nigeria I saw skin bleaching products from
dove and im like
aren't yall the same motherfuckers who be
in America like 'love yourself'
that just shows you that literally you market
whatever is in fashion
you have no moral integrity
aint dove the same people who had that black
girl turn white!?
if somebody wants to make a list of all the
companies that are actively contributing to
colorism
so that they can be called out and we not
use those products let me know
I saw some of the brands that were on there
and im like got its not using any of those
products
I know they is more
its sickening
how can you say colorism is not real and then
you know people are actively bleaching.
bleaching Is one of the most lucrative businesses
within cosmetology
you can make a lot of money in bleaching,
so if colorism is not real what is skin bleaching?
is it just for fun?
no
its for aesthetics its for your "preferences"
so if you want to decolonize your preferences
if you want people to stop bleaching their
skin then you have to do the work
I hate when people say people aw its so sad
that people bleach their skin
its not sad they are bleaching their skin,
its sad that colorism exists first
because I feel like we put too much pressure
on people who bleach their skin and not enough
pressure on the fact that there is a system
that is pushing them to do that.
what are you doing to fix that system?
its not enough to just talk about skin bleaching
and how sad it is, like boo hoo
its like honey, how are you contributing to
the system that is oppressing dark skin people?
and has been for hundreds of years, and will
be for more years.
what are you doing?
I wanna know
and you know who's the worst at this netflix
yo i do not watch Netflix because Netflix
is the most colorist platform, every single
movie that Netflix shows
this is the test
go on Netflix, and look at the black movies
if it is not with a dark skin man and a light
skin woman or a dark skin man with a biracial
woman who is light skin,
then the only time there are dark skin women
represented Is when we are in jail, they love
to get dark skin girls for jail and slavery
what?
we are represented (in those industries)
but when it comes to being happy, being married,
we fall into tropes where we only use dark
skin women in film for slavery, for jail,
and for the starter wife (the girl before
you come up to the next level)
were always very angry
and Netflix is so fucking colorist
the only time I see myself represented as
a dark skin person is in Nollywood films
and hella people bleach anyway but thats the
only time I see women who are my color
thats really sad
im so done with all the Hollywood films, and
there are so many films where they literally
just erase dark skin people.
the film is supposed to be written for dark
skin people and they literally just erase
dark skin people from each film.
like Amandla Stenberg, she's been in so many
films where It is meant for a dark skin person
and then its her
and its like no one says anything
then sis (Amandla) posts about colorism is
a big deal, but they still taking them roles
I be flabbergasted all the time
am I the only one who notices this?
if you say that colorism matters then that
means you should make space for dark skin
people to have opportunities
the same way that if you say that we should
fight institutional racism, that means you
should be hiring black people.
so if you want to fight colorism, and everyones
light
youre contributing to colorism
I don't know how else to say it
if you have a team of a lot of people and
everyone is light skin, youre contributing
to colorism
put a finger down if anyone has ever told
you that youre too dark within the black community
put a finger down if you have heard yourself
being dragged in hip hop music
put a finger down if in black media you saw
yourself represented as the ghetto ratchet
ugly friend
put a finger down if you are questioned on
your feminity because of your shade
put.a finger down, if people have told you
that you would be much prettier if you were
lighter
period boots
yall need to just watch that and when you
don't put none of your fingers down
just be like oh ok
colorism is in everything - dating, straight
or queer
all of it has been mad colorist
colorism is in every arena, all the time
unless youre actively doing work to dismantle
colorism, its likely existing.
just like racism
I don't know how to make it more clear
listen
I didn't wanna say it
he said it ok
a lot of times the comments that people say
in rebuttal to colorism really does sound
like the comments white people say it rebuttal
to black lives matter
I don't know how people can't see the duality,
the same comments come up when people talk
about black lives matter, then if you say
black queer lives matter
everyones like whoa no no no
it comes from this want to talk about your
own experiences as the most marginalized
being black is hard period.
id never not say that.
but when youre Black with intersections its
just harder
period
it doesn't dismiss anything, I would never
listen to someone talk who is of a different
body type of me and then say
wait a minute, in third grade I was called
toothpic
its not the same and its ok for it to not
be the same
this want for all of us to have the same experience
and no one to be suffering more is really
unrealistic
we can handle multiple dualities
at the same time
and I always say that every video
I believe it is ok to acknowledge that colorism
is real and to acknowledge that the people
who dismiss colorism often sound like all
lives matter
okay
gross on so many fucking levels
as a black person especially with hair like
mine
very nappy hair and someone who has modeled
it is humiliating when people do not know
how to do your hair and do not want to talk
about it
I had a photoshoot
I will not say who I was working with
it was a big campaign, very big campaign
everything was on point
the makeup artist was good
the hair stylist my hair was in freeform locs
it was like 2 Years ago
and she did not know what to do, and instead
of her just saying she did not know what to
do or that she was incompetent
this bitch was trying to break my locs
so now when I do shoots I actually tell them
to not touch my hair,
and that was when I was nervous
but now im like no
please don't touch me
people don't know how to do black 4c hair
even black people don't know how to do 4c
hair
even people with 4c hair don't know how to
do 4c hair
its not even a read
and then with the light skin girl in the back
laughing at her passion,
and often as dark skin people
as black people our passion is read as aggression
but
the darker you are the more difficult it is
certain words that is really specific to dark
skin people
dark skin people often hear that were bitter
Ive never heard any group be called bitter
as much as dark skin women are called
and words like
bitter, aggressive, is all rooted in this
idea that because of the color of my skin
I am scary
and the mixture of the color of your skin
and being a woman
this does not sit well with a lot of people
and for that little white girl to say
its weird that then she goes of she goes off
do you want her to not go off..?
you never know what it'd feel like to never
have people know how to do your hair on a
day to day basis
her passion was righteous her passion was
right
where is ebony?!
ebony if. u watching this video give me a
call
that doubled down what I said
and last one
ill do 2 more
I know it was going hella fast but
I had to watch it 5x
but statistically we are getting more time
in prison
colorism is not a joke its not like 'oh guys
don't like me' its not as simple as that
it affects how we get jobs
it affects how we navigate space
how we move through the world
and if yall are still arguing if its real
or not you gon get left in 2019
or 2018
you two years behind
lets catch up
lets solve this
can we address colorism?
please?
damn
she came through she let yall know.
period she aint playin
don't be dismissing
our experiences
and yes reverse colorism isnt a thing
so when yall say I was bullied for this and
this
Imma need yall to stop saying that
its a wrap on that
the quicker we address colorism for what it
is
the quicker we can move on to making steps
to fix it
I spat so much when I said that word
but we can take steps to combat colorism
if we're just in the arguing if its real stage
we got so much work we need to do
light skin people always say 'I don't see
any difference between how dark skin girls
and myself were treated I also got bullied
by dark skin girls
then you go a little bit further
and then people say well actually dark skin
people have always been very mean to me
in your head you think that dark skin people
are bullies, I hear This quite often
if you say that, it means that you already
know that you don't see your experience and
their experience as the same
because you have already seen them as something
different
then you
so if that can exist
then the way they're being treated
will also be different then you period.
alright yall
im hot, I have sweated, thank you for watching
I am thankful to all the beautiful tiktokers
who have created this content
because that shit is amazing
let me know if I should do a part 2
this might have been kind of long
thanks for watching
tschuus.
