GetUnderground.com has an excellent critique of LightSkinPeople.com. Here’s a snippet:
“Are light-skinned people hard up for dates or something?” my friend Carol scoffs when I call her to discuss Rome’s new venture. Carol is a brown-skinned sister who’s fed up to the teeth with comments like “You’re pretty to be so dark,” so this discriminatory dotcom gets no love from her. We both joke that the website promotes inbreeding in the hopes of spawning a superior race of curly-haired, fair-complected, highly-refined professionals. A form of nationalism for the melanin-challenged.
“But what’s the criteria for membership?” Carol wants to know. I’m also wondering how lightskinpeople.com will conduct its intake process in cyberspace. Will potential members who rank low on the color scale be blackballed? Is there an online paper bag test that applicants have to pass before they join?
I’ve been asking myself the exact same question about how membership will be determined. I guess we’ll know soon enough because it appears that they may be on the verge of going live. It also looks like they’re already on the defensive. That message, ” I am watching your every move so get your bloody foot out of your ass”, is no way to greet the huddled masses of light-skinned people. 🙂
Anyway, back to the GetUnderground article — it also delves into the history of the term ‘Redbone’. And here are some more articles by the same author, Nicole Sconiers. She’s covered some very interesting topics… read up.