a damn shame….seperation continues.

I guess they’ll use the paper bag affect to get in.

No one should go to this party.

when I saw this I almost threw up….you are right elle…more separation…at first “master” did it because the lighter skinned blacks were thought to be more docile therefore they could work in the “Big House”….now we are still pereptuating this absolute nonsense that lighter skinned means closer to white which means better than their darker skinned counterpart….what a travesity

the dude who does these events also throws..dark skinned night and caramel nights..he was defendin himself on another blog (media_take_out)

^^^ I still feel that it breeds separation….why have a dark skinned night or caramel night and then those who don’t fit the bill have to pay??? it is totally classless…..

I still don’t like it.

I’m sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo tired of us being seperated.

the “dude” who does “these” parties has major issues!!!!

aww hell naw!!! the dude organizing needs to be put in shackles and leg irons. i used to get so tired of this shyt growing up. When I was about 12 I went to a camp with a bunch of privileged white kids and they were like..”what’s the difference… you all look black to us!”

I TOTALLY AGREE…..THIS IS THA STUPITEST THEME FOR A PARTY I EVER HEARD OF. I WOULD NOT ATTEND THIS PARTY, ME BEING A DARK SKIN WOMAN. I WOULDN’T EVEN ATTEND THIS CLUB EVEN ON DARK WOMEN NITE!!!!!

OK. Um … this is what I was gonna say. OK. No, wait. I think I’ll say this … um… hmmm… No, that won’t work. Um, OK. Never mind.

N*ggerish ish.

The party has been cancelled by the promoter due to public pressure…thank goodness… he got put on BLAST!!! Ignant Ass!!

Not quite light enough for my standards, but i like the attitude and effort. – 3 1/2 Oreos out of 5

Why not also have the fine-toothed comb test at the door? If your hair is not straight enough to run a fine tooth comb thru your azz aint getting in. They used to have a blind Creole lady stationed at the door at some dive in Louisiana who would run her fingers through patron’s hair and if it wasn’t silky enough then their black azzes were turned away.

Oreo Cookie Willie

I think you make a wrong turn on the informationa super highway…I think you meant to make a left at TMZ.com…the F outta here!!!

Boy I wish I had went to that party and they turned me away. I’d call up Al Sharpton. Where is he when you need him?

This flyer is ridiculous on so many levels. It’s sad that some of us still suffer from the slave mentality. So who sets the standard for who is light enough to be considered “light-skinned” and get in free? PUHleeze!!!!

That was in the news yesterday. They cancelled the event. There’s a story about in a Detroit newspaper. I’m busy at the moment and can’t supply the link. Sorry. When I first saw this, I was floored.

well have one called

“Chocolate Candies”

“…Milk Chocolate, Caramel & Almond all desired”

stop seperating us…….:(

This ish WOULD be in tha ‘D’

DAMN!!!!

wow….this is really stupid i must say.. I really thought this was a joke, i guess there is still ignorance out there, so what happens if your in between light and dark do you have to pay half admission?? hummm thats one to ponder!!! NO ONE SHOULD ATTEND THIS CRAP>? light dark, purple green we are all equal!!! and we are all GOD’s BEAUTIFULLLLL CREATIONs cant he panel say AMENNNNN!!!

Pure AI–agrravated ignorance.

I guess SCHOOL DAZE isn’t over!

I LIVE IN DETROIT AND WE HAVE ENOUGH VITAL ISSUES GOING ON. IS THIS MAN FROM MARS. I AM SORRY HE IS TOO DUMB TO LIVE.

Utter ignorance…BLACK IS BLACK!!!

This why most of us try “Sumthin’ New”…..This has to be some stupid ass party hosted on the east coast…wow.

So this is what Derek Jeter is doing since Yankees were pounced out of the playoffs. Leave it to him to hold a Light Skinned party. NO women like India Arie or Angie Stone allowed.

you wrong for that pic sugar walls….lol

wow…i’m almost ashamed to be from detroit after seeing that hot ass mess. who in the hell thought that would ever work. i’m glad the party got cancelled. that is just pure ignorance and speaks volumes about our culture. smh

It’s a trip though – I’m from Detroit, and I have travelled many to many different places. . .

Detroit gets a REALLY bad rap…I think Detroit is always used as a scape goat for other cities to look down at. I have seen much worse areas and cities in my travels. Yet Detroit is always thrown out there as the worst of the worst. not to day we don’t have our fair share of problems cause Lord knows we do.

There are many issues that need to be worked out. But

my perspective allows me to see beyond this, and see the positive aspects a little clearer than most.

Maybe I am biased because I grew up in Detroit before moving to Seattle, and I will always be a Detroit local at heart.

I don’t want to turn this into a pro/anti Detroit debate, but as some one who lived in the city for 26 years, and having been in and around ALL parts of it, not just as a TV viewer, or a traveller, I HAVE to say my piece any time Detroit is discussed in my presence.

sorry for the typos . . .and yes, the flyer is ludicrous, immature, and derrogatory in it’s nature.

It makes me furious that this mentality would still be in people’s minds, let alone used as the theme for a party

For over ten years I lived in Toronto, one of the most racially diverse cities in the world. And I can tell you from personal experience that every non-white race of people do the very same thing, only they don’t publicize it. Chinese, Fillipino, East Indians, Hispanics, as well as folks of African descent, are some of the most racially conscience you will ever meet’ all based on the skin tone of people in their own groups. Oriental people encourage their children to marry white so that their offspring will be fair complexioned. Fillipino and hispanics do the same thing. The lighter you are in these asian groups the more attractive you are considered to be. Hispanics are also notorious far ranking each other based on skin tone. For hispanics, the fairer and closer who are to caucasion the better. All of these people of color should know better, but they prefer to hold on the the european standards of beauty over their own natural looks. I have talked to many of these folks and they always want to blame colonialism, but when you point out that they era of the west colonizing their lands ended generations ago, they get very defensive about it. The fact remains that we are no different from these other peoples when it comes to having being brainwashed, so we should not be too alarmed about it thinking we are the only ones who think this way, but we are wrong, they all do. That doesn’t make it better only true.

Cancelled!?! This is an outrage! This is just another insideous ploy by evil dark complected powers that be to undermine the advancement of the under-represented and down-troddend mulatto people.

This must stop!

So, now I quess we don’t have to wonder why other races continue to discrimate against us. WE’RE THE BEST AT DOIN’ IT TO OURSELVES!! For anyone to support that they absolutely have no self-concept of who they are and plain ass ignorant!!!

We all going to hell

Agree with Emerson. All non whites do this. White represents power.

People on this board do the same thing when they “celebrate” RiRi dating some white dude. You would think Jesus returned by all the joy and elation.

I am sorry to admit that Emerson is right. I am hispanic and I know people who will only date white people. Many Puerto Rican women were upset when Ben Affleck dumped JLO. It’s true. Latinos think that white automatically means beauty and power.

Marie I must tell you that most of the other races discriminate against us because of our behavior. The constant criminality of our young men going in and out of prisons, our refusal to take personal responsibility for our lives and constantly blaming others, as well as our reluctance not to study in school and get good grades to improve ourselves makes others want to distance themselves from us. Things will change when we change. I work with native children and they always tell me that their parents tell them not to be like the black kids. Their parents tell them to be and act like smart white people that way they will build a place for themselves in the world.

The obssession with skin tone began in the East long before the Europeans even set foot in that half of the world. Back then the darkness of your skin determined your standing in life as a peasant (poor) or a landowner(rich). The people with land did not work their fields, but hired the poor to grow and harvest their crops. These people were further darken by the sun and so were presented to the world as poor and landless. The land owners were free to pursue study, culture and business, the professions that did not require them to earn a living by the sweat of their brows. They were the elitist and their paler skin tone announced to the world that they had money and stature and were socially above their darker, uncultured brethern. That is how it started as skin tone reflecting your econimic standing in life, and it has not changed significantly since then. When you change your economics you change where you are in the world. Don’t bother so much about how others see you because it is much more important how you see yourself. If you remain poverty-stricken, uneducated and at the bottom of the social ladder, people everywhere will scramble to get away from you. Do you know that in the bible there is a verse that says, and I am paraphrasing here, that no one wants to see a poor man coming his way. This verse was written over 2000 years ago and people still feel that way. As fare as other groups of races being afflicted with this color stuck mentality, yeah, it’s all true. I have witnessed it countless of times myself, especially when I see orientals and hispanics walking down the street in the summertimes with big, old umbrella’s to keep the sun out of their faces.

GOTCHA ladies GOTCHA!!!!

Not living up to someone else’s standards I wonder what that feels like?

Black women reject or choose Black men based on things a lot more superficial than skintone and we have to deal with it so “WOMAN UP” Sistas and quit whinning. You’re breaking my heart. Not!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this “white is right” mentality is sooo damn sad.

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and so damn accepted (subconsciously) by the average black person.

btw, it seems like the guy simply ran out of party themes and did something stupid. i don’t think he deserves to be crucified, just corrected.

we have more important things to worry about such as black women and the obsession with european weaves. it may sound trivial, but hair matters.

Black people aren’t the only people with these issues. If any of you get on a predominately white blog you will see that white people poke fun of other whites that are extremely pale; eg. Dita Von Tease, Kirsten Dunst, and Kelly Osbourne. So please stop acting like this is a black only, slave mentality issue.

That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard of a lightskinned party!!! That’s why we can’t get nowhere, too much sepratism, envy and greed amongst our own people. Bad enough were constantly discriminated against a noose here a noose there. It seem to be the norm now. They’re hanging them things up like curtains…….Get it together people!!!!!

This is very sad but this sort of thing still happens anyway. Most clubs are just subtle about it. In most cities like the D or wherever all the clubs do is simply make the bouncers and doormen screen out all of the “undesirables” such as blacks, latinos, poor people, ugly people, etc.

I read that the reason the lightskin blacks worked in the house was that they were the kids or related to the slave owner. So it was not beacuse they were considered more docile. I have never heard that claim before. They were simply family, hence the lighter skin.

I work for a well read magazine and I can testify to the fact that light-skinned African American women, Light-skinned Hispanic women and lighter-skinned Asians women are all considered more desirable. By the people in their own race, as well as by the outside world. In asia, lighter skinned women are highly prized and fair skinned Asians are usually more educated and have more finacial resources than their darker counterparts. For dark skin people of all races to catch up they must pursue increased economic status in the world via higher education, otherwise, things will continue this way. Even i Europe light complexioned, black women are considered to be drop dead gorgeous.

alot of you keep saying that a man should be ashamed for throwing this party but if you read the invite it says”randi aka ms. p.y.t.” so this party is thrown by the light skinned woman smiling on the invite she is the ignorant person who thought this was a good idea. the guy above me(big jim) is right black women do have to stop picking men by their looks or money and start choosing men by personality and you will find good men if thats what you really want but younger black women dont always really want that good man they want the challenge of trying to change a bad boy or cheater into a good man. i dont pick women by skin tone but i understand what he meant by “woman up” because men are called out all the time by women for choosing women for the wrong reason so women need to do the same thing to other women when they choose for shallow reasons.

You know Val, I think what they said is the absolute truth, too many of us don’t like to hear the truth when we disagree with it. They speak from logic and what they all said makes sense to me, you speak from emotion something we need to stop doing.I’m very dark and I have experience it.

These folks sound intellegent and know history and they aren’t ranting and raving about racism I wonder if that’s why Val thinks they aren’t black. What they said really makes you think though.

Didn’t they have a party for dark-skinned and caramel skinned sisters too?

I am ashamed of all of the bloggers who have neglected to mention the other parties too. Black folks shouldn’t try to play those types of games with one another.

I am tall and thin like Naomi Capbell, and attractive, when I go out to clubs(interacial) I get ask to dance and approached by more white guys than black.Hmmm.

@ Bella

They didn’t have the party for the other skinned types. He said that they were “going to” have a party for the other skin tones.

That’s why people are saying he is lying. If nobody had given him this backlash, he probably would had just had the party for the light-skinned women and then that was it. He was just trying to save face.

@ Crest

The women whose face is on the fyler may not even know that her face was used for that fyler. Party fylers are NOTORIOUS for putting people’s faces with or on their fylers to plug their event, and then have the craziest captions underneath. And the person didn’t even know that their image was being used for that.

This woman probably don’t even know this man. He just used her pic and then wrote whatever he wanted underneath. This isn’t science guys, this kinda ish is easy to figure out.

I meant “flyer”…sorry for the typos…

Its pathetic. There’s this very popular rapper named lil boosie from Louisiana that always mainly raps about wanting redbones and on some occasions carmaels in his songs but yet 1 of his daughters is dark and the other brown. And I can actually see it changing the way the males in Baton Rouge think. Before lil boosie became really popular I had males approcahing me just as much and sometimes more than my light skinned girlfriend.

What’s the big deal, here in Texas we have parties where on certain nights only blondes, red-heads, or brunettes, get in free. DAMN COONS!!!!!

I have combination tone skin: medium brown face, high yellow neck, shoulders, chest, stomach, thighs, legs, and feet. Does this mean I have to cover my face and wear a revealing dress and flip flops to get in?