Mixed Doesn't mean Light Skin

I am seeing people get the term bi racial and light skinned mixed up and using them as interchangeable and that’s problematic.

There are people who are biracial who are not light skinned and those who are light skinned who have 2 black parents. Stop trying to dictate who is black and who is not when blackness is everywhere.

I have continuously heard the statement that lighter skinned black people don’t face police brutality and I feel it is so so so disrespectful to those who have lost their lives to the hands of police like Korryn Gaines and Sean Reed who are in fact of the lighter skin and in fact have been killed by the hands of those who are supposed to serve and protect us. Now, I will not sit here and act like people of the lighter skin are killed at the same rates because that would be ignorant of me to say. We must bring into conversation and recognize that darker skinned black people fall victim more often to being abused and murdered by the system of policing. My post is not here to over shadow that, it is here to address the many posts I have seen about erasing other black peoples experience and who can speak on what. When you disconnect their experiences and murders from other black people, it is disrespectful to the family and to the term of black lives matter.

I will continue to be an advocate for all black lives and for all intersections of blackness found. I am understanding of privilege and I am open to a discussion where you may feel I am using mine as a Cis Gendered, able bodied, lighter skinned, college educated black woman negatively!

Everyone continue to spread awareness of the matters at hand effecting black people in the US and Globally and don’t stop until we are heard!