“Team light skinned. No, team dark skinned, we don’t like them redbones!” Or, maybe the fact that men approach us colored girls with statements like, “you’ve got to be mixed, you’re so beautiful,” Or say, “I like you; you’re not like most black girls,” thinking they are giving complements when, in actuality, they are illustrating that racism is not only a two party system but also lingers within a single people.See, I was raised in a very conscious black household where I was