Sentence examples for Light-skinned person from inspiring English sources

From my experiences, it seems that any time a light-skinned person becomes well-known, all other people with similar skin tones are compared to them, that we become them in this weird way.

But just about every black family in the United States knows of a light-skinned person who decided to avoid the penalties associated with blackness by becoming white.

Puzzled at being the only light-skinned person in Tweefontein, he apparently thought a television programme about abducted children explained his origins.

The terms – a type of Chinese breakfast and an expression of delight, respectively – enter, along with phrases such as "dai pai dong", "ang moh" and "chilli crab" (an open-air food stall, a light-skinned person, and a regional delicacy).

I can't go into a room and just sort of exist as a light-skinned person.

He proposed that, in the first week, a white person should come in with a very light-skinned black person.

The problem is what when white people see even a very light-skinned black person, they see something very, very different.

She portrays herself as a relatively light-skinned mixed person, which carries it's own pitfalls and privileges within African-American communities as well as in wider U.S. society.

Shapiro, who now lives in Connecticut, said: "In 1927, to be a light- skinned black person in the South was just as horrible as being a black person in the white South.

I am light-skinned, but I am still a person of color.

She was light-skinned and of mixed race, the kind of person Francois Duvalier had vowed to help blacks combat.