Colorism is a controversial issue that occurs worldwide, but it mainly occurs in the African American community. Colorism is a form of discrimination that occurs in a particular community where lighter skin tones are treated better than people with darker skin tones. Discrimination between the same ethnic or racial groups dates back to slavery when Willie Lynch’s speech in 1712 proposes a way to control slaves and make them envy each other just by separating the light skin tones from dark skin tones. In countries such as Asia or India, colorism plays a huge role in the success of women. For example, in Asia if a women is not as white as snow she is not considered pretty. I gathered majority of my information from “The Legacy of Colorism Reflects
