My Suggested Research Method

My suggested research method for colorism involves asking questions, and many of them to the students in paper form. My plan is to give them ten questions which will include pictures of people with questions of "Who wore it best?", "Who do you think is most famous?", "Who committed the murder?",  or "Who do you think is prettier?" In every question I will put in three pictures of people of all different skin tones. The majority of the most common circled answers will dictate the students' overall opinion and viewpoint on colorism without them even really knowing it. This type of research method is survey research because it involves me asking people questions and them answering it with their opinions and thoughts. I believe this is the best research method to use for the topic of colorism because I am showing the students three pictures: people of all different races and skin tones. They will only be able to choose one person per question. I think their answers will indicate their individual views on colorism, even though it is not intentional. This research method will be interesting as to seeing what results we end up with as a class!
 We will end colorism!

What Will You Do To Make The Change?

Colorism is a large issue all around the world. Colorism is discriminating an ethnic group based on skin color. Even though many people say colorism has died down, it is still lurking around and common. Many people first experience the act of colorism at a young age and it carries on into their adulthood. In this video, An Education on Colorism with Kiara Lee, she discusses how people who are dark skinned are treated so much differently than those who are light skinned. People with dark skin are called multiple degrading names and are continually judged by their peers. Beginning at a young age, dark skinned children may experience rejection or discrimination simply because they appear "different". Human beings are visual people, and this is how we are able to judge others based on their appearances. Even if we do not want to judge someone, we automatically always do based on their appearance at first. We always have a quick thought that runs through our heads once we see someone; whether that thought be good or bad or whether we use that judgement against that person or not. Colorism is a tough subject because it has been around for such a long time, and unfortunately will continue to be around if we don't make a change soon. In her video, Kiara Lee talks about how many dark skinned people have low self esteem because of how they are treated; usually resulting back to the beginning of their childhoods. No person has the right to judge someone harshly and use it against them, especially with an innocent child. No one should be negatively thought of by anyone: peers, family members, friends, or teachers. These discriminating actions that children experience at a young age will stay with them for the rest of their lives leaving them to be self conscious and insecure about themselves. 

Another video I found online was with a woman sharing her personal experiences of colorism stories relating to discrimination and rejection. These stories were related to her professional life and her love life. It was interesting to hear her talk about her experiences because they were personal and were coming directly from her. She spoke about how she was a model at the age of fourteen and fifteen, and was eventually rejected because her skin was too dark. She was told by the modeling company that she had the perfect body and height, but her skin was just simply too dark! Imagine that. Also, she said in college she had a friend who had the same body type as her and was dark skinned, but about two shades lighter than her. Wherever they went together and whenever they went out together, the men would always gravitate towards her friend because she was lighter skinned. She found that most of the men were more attracted to the lighter skinned girls. She received numerous offensive comments from guys that they thought were compliments such as,  "You're pretty for a dark skinned girl."  and "You're beautiful, but just too dark for me." Comments like these are sure to destroy a female's self esteem in a second. Comments like these are said everyday by people to dark skinned girls of all ages. 

It is amazing that people still today are judging people based on the color of their skin. It is disgusting and disturbing that this still takes place today. We need to change this. We need to make a difference. We need to learn right from wrong with this issue. We need to implement our good, high standard morals and values into this issue. We need to make our change today. We need to be against colorism! 

Colorism In Men...And Women

Colorism is an ongoing issue the world continues to suffer from. Colorism does not only come from outsiders and random people walking down the street. Colorism usually starts at home. Family members compare their skin tones, and are either jealous of their family members' skin color or they are feeling fortunate they have the skin tone that they do. Based on children's parents beliefs about skin color, and what they hear about skin tones at home is embedded in their brains. Parent's beliefs and what parents say has a large affect on their children's beliefs and words.

Colorism affects many people in the world; males and females. Many people believe that women suffer more from colorism than men because it is more common for females to become "obsessive" over their appearances. This is extremely false. Men, like women, may be self conscious about their bodies and about their skin colors. Even though many dark skinned women tend to bleach their skin more than men, especially in the media, men do bleach their skin as well! Many men, as well as women, believe that President Obama is president because he is light skinned. In this article, Light Supremacy: Colorism and the Black Man, it is said that the darker skinned a person is, the more likely they are to be judged compared to a lighter skinned person, they are likely to have less education, and likely to have a low economical and social status. It is also stated in this article that the world is changing and colorism is becoming slightly less of an issue because many famous people are dark skinned and there are many workers with high positions in the world with dark skin. Hopefully this judging and colorism problem will slowly and progressively end.