How about this?
#NYCStripperStrike: New York City's Black Exotic Dancers Strike Against Colorism, UnfairnessSo, in short, black strippers aren't getting tipped as well as whites and latinas.
So what?
You know who else doesn't get tipped as much? Old women, ugly bitches, and cunts with bad attitudes.
You've gotta play to your audience; if the audience doesn't find you attractive that's not colorism, whatever the fuck that means. What's the solution here? All patrons are required to tip every dancer? Don't see that working. Clubs have to pay black dancers more because they aren't attractive to enough people to make as much as (and now please welcome to the stage:) Destiny©? Or make all the dancers "tip out" and pool their tips, dividing them equally like Papa Stalin intended?
This fucking world, man. I know it's hard on a sistah. Unless you're crazy hot (and probably mixed) even your own men find lighter skin more attractive. Hold on, before you blow a gasket screaming about endemic white supremacy, that's gonna end up being just a human thing. ALL ACROSS THE WORLD THIS IS THE SAME. In every culture around the world people tend to find lighter skin more attractive.
Why?
Plenty of people will say it's because of colonialism and western culture but is it really? I mean it's far from universal; plenty of men I know like bronzed skin. Most people I know prefer tans to pale skin. In fact the palest among us (Where my Celts at?) are often viewed as sickly with a skin tone that is similarly avoided. SO what's going on here?
(Buckle up, Anthropologist Professor Uesugi is on the case)
At the dire risk of offending people I come at this from a biological, social, and simply human point of view. Do you wanna bone a sick person? I mean a really sick, like terminally ill/pale as death person? Like literally IS diseased? No, you do NOT. Why? Because biology is telling us we might catch whatever they have. This is why, even among white people, a healthy skin tone is desirable. Tan or flushed skin indicates that this person spends time OUTSIDE of the cave... doing healthy person shit. So game on! Bone away, mi amigo, cause that human is A-OK to swap fluids with!
But wait.... what if that person were filthy? I mean COVERED in mud and shit? Like hadn't bathed and was caked in dirt? Would you wanna bone that person? We're the aquatic branch of the ape family (webbed fingers, sub-dermal fat, streamlined body hair, gasp reflex) so we're evolutionarly acclimated to water. Look at a modern human on vacation; where do they like to go? The Beach. Why? Because for 100 thousand years... since before we were even human, the water has been our ally. "Look! A man-eating Saber-bear! Run into the surf so he can't eat us!!" Shit worked too. You know what else worked? Shellfish. Fish in general. The Omega fatty acids were serious brain food, adding to our big brains and making us even smarter. Smart enough to associate filthy, dirty skin with uncleanliness and bacteria, or disease.
Which kind of skin is it easier to see dirt on?
Do you see where I'm going with this? Maybe, JUST MAYBE, humanity has always artificially selected for lighter skin because the people that did wound up with cleaner, healthier mates. Especially after our big-brained selves learned to make the weapons and clothing to leave the safety of the surf and walk out across the land and conquer the fucking world. Away from water keeping clean became important and if your mate had mammoth shit caked all over him and you didn't notice it because his skin tone is approximately identical to said shit then YOU might get sick from whatever nasty germs live in mammoth shit.
This was made a LOT easier when invading Homo Sapiens interbred with Homo Neanderthalensis, who happened to have pale skin and red hair. (Dem Thals...) The result spread all over the world, leaving their darker skinned cousins in Africa and everywhere they went local cultures STILL seem to prefer lighter skin than whatever the "norm" is.
China.
Japan.
India.
Pakistan.
The Middle East.
Name a place... Rwanda.... it's still true. The world over.
Now this is either because Amerikkka exports White Supremacy in its pop culture, as some would have you believe, or for a much more base, primal, subconscious, and BANAL reason; it's hard to see filth on really dark skin.
You make the call.