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Josh Washington

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Communications (Broadcast

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Writer/Editor Senior journalism and mass communications major.

She is from Chester, VA by way of Jonesboro, GA and

is currently the president of Georgia Aggies. Xavia has

written for the JOMC department newsletter, The Com-

municator, and hopes to pursue further endeavors in

which she can fulfill her desire to be an author, teacher,

and effective writer.

Xavia Johnson

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Chantin CollinsWriter/Editor

Recent mechanical engineering degree recipient from Durham, NC. Hoping to attain a masters in environ-mental sciences. In addition to coaching aycock middle schools football team spends his free time painting playing the trumpet and volunteering around campus and community high school dream is to one day further his family LLC by opening a jazz lounge and barbershop.

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Victorri Taylor PhoTograPher

Freshman Journalism/Mass Communica-tions major from atlanta, ga and is cur-rently Miss georgia aggie. Currently a part of the Marketing and Media commit-tees in S.U.a.B and National association of Black Journalist. She plans to have a behind the scenes career in the media field.

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Investing seriesby Chantin Collins

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In Wale’s song titled, “Shades”, he mentions growing up with the mindset that light skin

people in general had an “easier” life “. At the end of his second verse he says, “Associat-ing light skin with classy the menstrual show showed a me that was not me.” and that females always wanted the stereotypical light dude with “good” hair. This brings up multiple questions, Does the complexion of your skin determine your attractiveness? Are you any less attractive for being dark skin or light skin? Is society to blame for our preferences of what is attractive and what is not?, I understand everybody has their own preference and ideal mate. I personally pre-fer females my complexion or lighter. I’ve got-ten a lot of criticism for that, but I don’t care, I like what I like. I read about a black college study, in which males and females were asked what skin tone they preferred in the opposite sex. 100 or so students participated in the study. Around 70 percent of the females said they pre-ferred light skin men. Around 80 percent of the males said they preferred light skin women. -Reggie

Does this answer the questions posed near the beginning?

“ Yo u ’ r e g o r g e o u s ” We n a m e d yo u a s t h e b a d d e s t d a r k s k i n n e d g i r l o n t h e ya r d ! M a y b e to p 5 p e r i o d ! ” I said this with the best intentions at heart to a dark skinned young lady while in the union my junior year at A&T. She was a very deep, refreshing, coffee bean hue of brown. I had no clue that by simply adding “dark skinned” into my statement I had offended her. I heard from her friends lat-er that she had been upset about it and we were never really close again.

My romantic resume seems to suggest that I do not discriminate based upon skin tone. I have probably fallen for more females of the deep honey complexion, BUT I have dated all hues of beautiful brown (sometimes yellow and/or red) women. Truthfully I do tend to find more light skinned females attractive than dark skinned females, but who am I but a single man? There is no rule that explains being born lighter automatically makes you more attractive than your darker counterparts. Michelangelo and

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Rembrandt each chose the hues with which they painted their masterpieces based upon inspira-tion with subjective opinion being irrelevant. I suppose the good Lord makes his masterpieces in that same manner.

The stigma place on those who happen to be born with darker skin has deep, historic roots. It doesn’t simply start with Blacks and Jim Crow or Slavery. The “house nigger” versus “field nigger” argument or the “brown paper bag test” are not the first instances of discrimination based on skin tone. Any land conquered by Eu-ropeans has these roots. From India, to Africa, to the United States, the Anglo Saxon’s came, conquered, and manipulated the mindsets of the natives. Their lighter skin was “best”, and the closer you were to appearing as they were the more intelligence and beauty you contained or had the potential to muster. This mindset has spread and blatantly infiltrat-ed our media and households.-Chantin

There tends to be a great deal of contro-versy when people are asked if light skin is

more attractive than dark skin or vice versa. In my opinion, people simply use “I like what I like” as a way of getting out of fully explain-ing why they prefer a skin color over another. While I do believe that people can’t help who they are attracted to, I think it is much deeper than what some are willing to reveal. I can re-call a man saying that he preferred light skin women over dark skinned women and in the same breath he said, “I mean, nothing is wrong with dark skinned women though.” Well, if nothing is wrong with dark skinned women, what was the purpose of choosing one color over the. I’ve also heard women say the same thing about men, but we’re ALL black. My biggest concern is that people look too far into the superficial hoping to find the one for them instead of focusing on qualities that are far more important. I under-stand there has to be an attraction first, but with all of the beauti-ful people in the world, are you really willing to limit yourself to one skin tone? Personally, I just like men. Simple as that. Honest, loyal, caring men who have values and who also care about their appearance, but aren’t too caught up in themselves. The color of a man’s skin has

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never been essential to me. If he is attractive, I am content, and if he treats me right, I have really won. The fact of the matter is that one day, we’re going to look half as good as we do now. We’re going to age, maybe gain weight or lose hair, and whether we are light or dark will be irrelevant.-Xavia

I too have a thing for the gorgeous stereotyp-ical light skin female. But here is the com-

mon misconception just because I prefer light skin, I am not by any means saying that pretty, gorgeous dark skin females do not exist. People have a bad habit of misinterpreting one’s prefer-ence, taking it as praising one complexion and downing another. That is not that case at all. There are plenty of beautiful, dark skin ladies in the world, that many men would die for pos-sibly even I, if the rivers flow me in that direc-tion. But because, more light skin females are attracted to me as I am to them, then just natu-rally I have chosen the light skin lady over the dark skin. Hey hey hey calm down, nothing per-sonal its just my PREFERENCE for Pete’s sake!-Josh

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Ending ThoughtsIn the chorus of the “Shades” song Chrisette Michelle sings, “All my light skinned girls to my dark skin brothers, Shades doesn’t matter heart makes the lover…”—Instead of looking at solely looks, we should take the time to dig deeper and discover what the person is about before we label them as being attractive just be-cause of their particular skin tone.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem

of the color line –W.E.B. DuBois

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