Yes, they do

dark skinned people can spend more time in the sun, however, they don't get vitamin D as easily as light skinned people.

YES!

I would say yes. However, by me being a black medium skinned woman, I have never experienced being shunned just because of the complexity of my skin...

no

In some societies yes I would say they do. it is some kind of status to be lighter skinned.

Yeah, though I think that was more important years ago. Allegedly, light skinned slaves were envied by their darker skinned ones. And no, I am not justifying slavery, but stating this in trying to give an example.

no.I'm a light skinned black and I do not have it easier than brown and dark skinned blacks.In Philly many young adult brown skinned and dark skinned blacks don't date light skinned blacks.I had lived in cities that weren't like this. There are few light skin and brown skin or dark skin black young adult couples in Philly.I had also lived in Philadelphia (ninth-poorest U.S. city ,blacks are the majority)for many years.My light skin and my brown skin black cousins lived in some zip codes in Philly that have many sex offenders (are often lecherous)and none of the black men would date my light skin cousin and many black wanted to date my brown skin cousin.

Unfortunately, from what I have read and heard from friends, yes they are treated better by white folks. I say "unfortunately" because it is sad that dark skin is still that negatively viewed. I am on a "mixie" board where this is discussed ("mixed race") and I have seen it commonly mentioned. It is not unilateral but it seems to be common. Of course, they also say that light skinned black people get flack from dark skinned black folks. I also know the same can be said for pale individuals from my ethnicity. We have less problems from white folks but our own people tend to look down on us (I am a pale specimen).

Yes.

I think that there is no diffrence as light or dark! Being black is being black as saying a white skinned person & as saying a dark tanned white person. Red & green apples are still the same! as an APPLE.

"As Racism Wanes, Colorism Persists" http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/as-racism-wanes-colorism-persists/

I think they do. I'm a light-skinned (multiracial) black. I've noticed that in highschool, my darker skinned friends would get in trouble more...even if they did less than I did or didn't do anything at all. I also tended to be babied (despite the fact there were other girls who had similar beliefs and were just as naive or had the same bodytype). An even more recent event happened when me and a friend had gone out to buy some gifts. We both needed help and she looked like she needed it than I did, while I was simply browsing. In almost five mins., I had two people offer to help me (and 10 mins later she still hadn't recieved help). For the record: she was dressed better than me and seems more approachable/outgoing. It seems to be (although I live in the South and it varies) that lighter blacks are treated better. Overall there just seems to be a lot of hate *inside* the race.

I think [yes] But I think its within the [race] I dont get treated any different from [white people] that I know of, but I think [lighter skin people sometimes they think they are HOT SHIT!] and walk around like they are just so FINE and I'm mainly talking about the girls. I would hear other light skinned people say he dark or she dark or I'm not that DARK! and the way they say it. It makes it sound like dark skin people are just sooooo ugly.

I can't speak for today's society, but skin tone prejudice, in which people with light skin were given preferential treatment among black and white people, was common from the reconstruction era until the 1950's or so. Big Bill Broonzy's song "Get Back" sheds some light on this prejudice.

I'm sure for some the answer is yes. And for some others the answer is no. I'm very light skinned and it hasn't helped me one iota. It actually got me a butt whippin' one time and that didn't help me either. (still fumin' about that one)

In societies where the color of our skin still matters, I think it will be true. People almost always tend to judge by our outward appearance and we are almost always wrong in our perceptions.

. It is often a surprise for people to learn that, in reality, there is actually No Such Thing As a 'Light Skinned Black" person. In fact, the term "Light Skinned Black" is really nothing more than a racist oxymoron that was created by racial supremacists in an effort to forcibly deny those Mixed-Race individuals, who are of a Multi-Generational Multiracially-Mixed (MGM-Mixed) Lineage, the right to fully embrace and to also receive public support in choosing to acknowledge the truth regarding their full ancestral heritage. The people who have been slapped with the oxymoronic misnomer and false label of "Light Skinned Black" person are simply Mixed-Race people -- whose family has been continually Mixed-Race throughout their multiple generations. For more information on MGM-Mixed lineage, feel free to view the information at the found at the links listed below: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/3331 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1399 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1747 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1570 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1573 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1402 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1400 Source(s): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MGM-Mixed http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FGM-Mixed . -- AP (soaptalk@hotmail.com) .

Hi, Just thought you all might find the links below (which pertain to the subject of 'light' and 'dark skin complexions) to be of interest. http://newsblaze.com/story/20090621155502zzzz.nb/topstory.html (Please also note sub-links found at the bottom of the article found in this link.) http://boards.mulatto.org/post/show_single_post?pid=34070414&postcount=14 http://boards.mulatto.org/post/show_single_post?pid=34070161&postcount=13 Have a nice day. =D -- AP

. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A so-called LIGHT SKINNED BLACK person; THE TERM IS a RACIST, oxymoronic misnomer that was created by racial supremacist in an effort to the deny MGM-Mixed* people a right to embrace, acknowledge and lay claim to their full ancestral lineage. See link below for more information. http://boards.mulatto.org/post/show_single_post?pid=35284580&postcount=4 [MGM-Mixed=Multi-Generational Multiracially-Mixed] .

. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A so-called LIGHT SKINNED BLACK person; THE TERM IS a RACIST, oxymoronic misnomer that was created by racial supremacist in an effort to the deny MGM-Mixed* people a right to embrace, acknowledge and lay claim to their full ancestral lineage. See link below for more information. http://boards.mulatto.org/post/show_single_post?pid=35284580&postcount=4 [MGM-Mixed=Multi-Generational Multiracially-Mixed] .

I do not understand why anyone would have it easier than anyone else because of the amount of Melanin they have. This may piss some people off but one could argue that it's tough to be a white person these days.

i think it depends on the circumstances. i'm light skinned but i don't look black at first glance, but there is something different about how light skinned black people are treated. but some darker skinned black people are hard on light skinned black people, maybe because of jealousy, but thats from my childhood experiences.