White people spent centuries attaching status to pale skin. Then the minute THEY started working indoors and rich white people started vacationing in the sun, suddenly being tan was fashionable. They changed the meaning of dark skin for themselves in basically one generation. Meanwhile, the rules attached to dark skin on Black people stayed right where they were. That tells you a lot about who those rules were actually for. #colorism #whitepeople #worldhistory #historytok #fyp
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White people spent centuries attaching status to pale skin. Then the minute THEY started working indoors and rich white people started vacationing in the sun, suddenly being tan was fashionable. They changed the meaning of dark skin for themselves in basically one generation. Meanwhile, the rules attached to dark skin on Black people stayed right where they were. That tells you a lot about who those rules were actually for. #colorism #whitepeople #worldhistory #historytok #fyp
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