LIFE: Race, race, race: To hell in a handbasket: Um, not "a shade or color each week"
Detroit was two seconds away from becoming a real-life "Good and Bad Hair" montage from Spike Lee's "School Daze" when a party promoter attempted to host a light skin-themed bash in which all bright black girls would get in for free. His explanation? "I had planned a party for other shades (of black women). We were going to take a shade of color each week. Next week was going to be a party for 'Sexy Chocolate' and the week after that 'Sexy Caramel.'" Dead wrong on too many levels to outline here. Read the details of the subsequent backlash that forced him to cancel the party.
posted by Muse Magazine at 9:32 PM
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These kinds of (so-called light-skinned) parties go on all over the place all the time, but you just don't hear about them in public.
They've been rapidly growing in popularity for the past ten years. Many of them are held at exclusive clubs and in posh private homes. This particulary DJ could have simply been trying to see how much he could get under the skin of those who can't pass that particular color test. The issue is, there is a growing segment of light(er)-skinned blacks who do not and will not associate with their darker-skinned counterparts.
The odd part of this story is that if in fact the DJ was darker-skinned as was reported, then what message was he really trying to send?
p.s., If the party's held in a private home, there is no legal recourse for those who might feel slighted. It's call freedom of association. In other words, you can't sue anyone.
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Amid furor, DJ cancels party for 'light-skinned' blacks
'I made a mistake,' local party promoter says after Internet backlash.
Oralandar Brand-Williams / The Detroit News
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071012/METRO/710120405
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