Dark Skin Women are Not Your Scapegoats For Aggression

!!!Major Spoiler Alert for Pose Season 2!!! The Same Exhausting Rhetoric Listen, I’m real tired so I’m gonna skip straight to the point. Showrunners! You need to hire dark skin people to write dark skin characters, because it seems like the writers y’all hired don’t know how to do it. Since we like to have the conversation about needing diversity in writers’ rooms, let’s talk about media representation and colorism. Black folks have seen stereotypes for as long as we could remember. We’ve had caricatures depicted across our screens that instill fear and racism to this day. We’ve seen us associated with violence, betrayal, a counteracting ingredient to purity. Today, I’d like to discuss another topic under the umbrella of racism, colorism. We’ve covered it in different ways in our articles, especially this one that dissects colorism and casting; but today we’re going to focus on dark skin folks and how they are written in the television world. Dark skin women are not the scapegoats you lug your insults at for comic relief. We’re not the friend you fail to appreciate until we’re dead. We’re not animalistic beings who lack intelligence or empathy. We are not to be forgotten until we have something gracious to offer to you. I have too many examples from movies and television shows that do not explore dark skin women with the depth and love they offer their light skin counterparts. This rhetoric is anti-black and embarrassing. Cut the “Tyler Perry Effect” and hold yourself account…