Jade Cargill
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Well, some people think that there are colorism conversations and little undersided jokes of like the sidekick, the light-skinned girl with the black sidekick.
Does colorism exist in television, film, Hollywood?
Was Martin being a colorist towards Pam?
He never mentioned her complexion one time on that show.
It was always her hair.
It was always referring to her as being manly.
It was never because you're dark skinned.
Okay, so those are all stereotypes that are used with dark-skinned women.
Being masculine, not being able to keep a man, and being nappy-headed.
Those are anti-black tropes that are attributed to dark-skinned black women.
He used to talk about Gina's Kitchen, too, and say her head was big.
He said her head was because that's a trope against light-skinned women.
Light-skinned women got big-ass heads.
That's a trope against light-skinned women, that they got big foreheads.