Yung Berg vs. Dark Skinned Women
Women of color Angered by Comments Made by some of Hip Hop's Stars.
From Yung Berg To Polow Da Don
“I’m kinda racist…I don’t like dark butts…You know how some women prefer light skin men or dark skin men,” said the “Sexy Can I” rapper during an interview with radio show "Lip Service." “It’s rare that I do dark butts – that’s what I call dark skinned women…I [don’t date women] darker than me."
Things just got “better” from there as he went on to say, “I love the pool test. If you can jump in the pool exactly like you are and you don’t come out looking better than you looked before going in the pool – then that’s not a good look. Any woman that uses brown gel to set down her baby hair is not poppin.”
Another member of the “white girls only club” is Polow Da Don, a rising star in the producing game.
Dubbed “The King Of the White Girls” by some media outlets, Polow has also expressed his strong aversion of black women. His new name stemmed from an interview with AllHipHop.com where he stated, “black women need to get their s**t together, period, point black. And if you’re in denial of that, you are part of the problem.”
Wait a minute … if both of these artists are black doesn’t that mean that their mothers are black?
Controversy Over Skin Color
Can a man be blamed for seeking out the aesthetic qualities that get him going? No. Can a man be blamed for using horrible names like “dark butts” to negatively describe what doesn’t? Of course he can. Can a man be blamed for making horrible blanket statements about women of any race? Absolutely!
For generations African American people in this country have been told that black is not beautiful. From the brown paper bag test to a million dollar industry devoted to straightening and lengthening black hair and bleaching black skin, the extreme abhorrence for blackness is deeply engrained in all of us.
But even with the facts being what they are it still does not excuse this type of behavior.
What a man likes is just that…what HE likes. He does not have to explain what pleases his eye. But one has to acknowledge these blatant and unapologetic remarks for purely what they are… pure ignorance.
“Scarface” & “Mr. Big”: White Men And Black Women
From Al Pacino to Chris Noth, there are plenty of “white” men in the public eye who are dating or have dated black women. None of these men, however, have ever come out and condemned white women for not being dark enough or not having “their sh*t together.”
Fact is, that will never happen.
Regardless of their preference, it seems that white men are not mentally inclined to speak that way about their female counterparts.
Have the years of engrained hatred of blackness grown from a hatred of others into a hatred of self too? That seems to be the only logical explanation of why some black men may resort to such deplorable actions. The question now becomes: How many black women will be buying their records now?
