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VIDEO: Light-Skinned Black Women Share The Hurtful Comments They Heard Growing Up

(The Huffington Post) โ€“ โ€œYou think youโ€™re white.โ€ โ€œYouโ€™re stuck up.โ€ โ€œYou think youโ€™re better than everybody else.โ€ African-American women with lighter complexions say they often heard backhanded comments like these from members of their own communities while growing up. The documentary โ€œLight Girls,โ€ director Bill Dukeโ€™s sequel to โ€œDark Girls,โ€ showcases some of their stories as […]

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