British-Nigerian actress shines a light on colorism in Netflix documentary

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To explore colorism in Africa, British-Nigerian actress Beverly Naya has produced a documentary titled 'Skin.' Unlike racism, colorism is the discrimination of people based on skin shades and is prevalent among people of the same ethnic or racial group.

Lagos, Nigeria To explore colorism in Africa, British-Nigerian actress Beverly Naya has produced a documentary on Netflix titled"Skin."

Unlike racism, colorism is the discrimination of people based on skin shades and is prevalent among people of the same ethnic or racial group."Skin," an hour-long documentary, compiles the stories of Black women in Nigeria who have been treated differently for having dark skin. They speak openly about the pressures of being defined by their skin color.

 

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What is a British Nigerian BeverlyNaya ? If your Black, your of African heritage, what's with all the added labels? And why do we need her to tell us how we feel in our skin? Another pointless documentary Go tell 10DowningStreet to figure out why Blacks are dying fm COVID

Y’all black women want interracial relationships but they don’t won’t to admit

“British Nigerian” when it’s good news, “Nigerian” when it’s bad. Lol okay

Will definitely watch this soon

Sometimes it seems like white people get all the blame, but if you look at the world, you'll see people try to hold down anyone they can, especially women, all women are discriminated against and shades of skin, economic status, etc. I will watch this one.

Skin color as of color of skin sound so racist Africans generally have dark melanin determines the darkness of the skin people in Africa have darker to protect from sun Blacks that came to this Country were mixed with white and native Indian thus the light HouseDemocrats ABC

Sad but true for years...a secret.

Why aren’t you guys reporting Kanye running for president ? Why you’re all about this new movement . You guys should be thrilled no Oh wait it’s cause y’all know all it means is another 4 years of the Donald incoming. Months of wasted fake efforts catering to blacks . Idiots

pendragons411 False news👎

Obsessed with race. These new blacks would do well with Hitler if they were white.

In other words, racism.

Let's invent more fake issues

So from dark black to lighter black?

STORMIMFMAYA

Happens in the USA too

One of the biggest lies still told!!!, Black's African Americans or negros are African. That's not true we're ARABIC, THEY RE NAMED OUR LAND THE MIDDLE EAST!! FACTS

I won't be here to see it - I have plans to be dead in a few decades - but I expect in a few centuries humans will all look pretty much the same.

Always racebaiting.. now shadebaiting? Ekelhaft!

Enough!

wow i really dont care tell me more

Who care

Happy USAIndependenceDay

Is colorism a new word? Twitter spell checker doesn’t recognize it.

Wow. got caught cold manipulating the words and meaning of my 4th of July Speech. They were brazen, desperate. Watch what happens!

Fake news

Colorism is an invent from slavery. It's a cancer and prevalent in every minority group. Everyone group...Black, African, Asian, Indian, Mexican and Latino, etc.

EEvamess andreavame

O. Goody, another ‘ism’ that the left probably will use as a weapon

She uses Naya instead of her first name or even her full middle name. The dumb hole hasn’t fixed anything. Another worthless documentary on Netflix.

yes I've seen this in school. I've seen light skinned black women make fun of dark skinned black women. I've seen them start fights over it too. and yes, it does happen within thier own race cause some people really are that freaking petty about the dumbest things.

Are “light skin blacks” persecuted by “dark skin blacks” or vice versa?

One of the most popular cosmetic products in Nigeria is skin lightening cream. Also the one most requested gift items

It's not 'unlike racism', it's racism You don't need to invent new words when the old ones work just fine. Discrimination based on the color of someone's skin is racism It doesn't matter who is doing it to whom

When are we going to realize we all have biases based on looks (skin color, shade, weight, hair color, ethnicity, etc.). Understand it, accept it and work from there. But to self righteously pretend we're above that and condemn everyone who falls short is hypocrisy at its finest.

What, like gingers?

Happy 4th of July my American kin of different colors! 🇺🇸🧨🎇

chandana_hiran

Jesus Christ, give it a rest already.

Know what's racist and discrimination? The black national anthem. That shows decide and racism.

جميلل

Nooooooooo!!!

Just because its black on black you wanna call it something different. Its pure racism so just stop

British Nigerian mtchweee She is Nigerian period

SPEAKING OF BEING RACIST:if you go to it gives you a list of CNN's anchors and hosts... only 3 out of 71 are black. 119 correspondents and reporters and less than 10 are black. how do they get away with this racist policy?

Leftists needed more ways to be racist. 🤦‍♂️

'Colorism.' So now you've separated the whites from the blacks. Now it's time to separate blacks on shades of black. Colorism. I need to turn off social media and just color for awhile, using my new box of 96 crayons with the built in sharpener.

Jasamgurlie Tsuiiip

It's brutal what Africans do to people considered 'Albino'.

Colorism is just racism.

This must be what they intend to start using to describe racism, now that the marxists have declared race to be a social construct, just like biological sex.

So non-whites cannot be 'racists' according to neo-Marxist theory, but they can be 'colorists'?

It just continues on and on ...

Also, there are racism against white ppl in South Africa.

Beautiful

No particular mention of racism... It makes everyone to show sympathy instead of looking at it 'as it is '...

Colorism is internalized racism.... so racism.

Lol.. we got another new form of racism now..

Get out of my face with that bull 💩.

But,... but,... but blacks can’t be racist - you know, judge people based on their color of their skin to support the infiriority on another human being. Make them hate themselves for being a color god made them. The republicans have taken control of CNN!

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