To the person who wants to know why "white" women are so judmental to black women.......Who said that we are. All I saw on Tyra's show today were a bunch of black women bashing black women.....Yet us white women still get the blame. GO FIGURE!!!!!!!!!

Hey Tyra, how are you? I just finished watching your show on prejudice in our own community (Black community). It's unfortunate that we judge each other according to our skin color, on top of constantly being judged by people of other races. Growing up different shades in the black community was never an issue. I had dark and light skinned friends. We never judged each other based on our skin color, it was mainly our personality. The length of our hair was something that was always talked about amongst my friends and I, but we eventually got past that. This issue in the black community is the seed of slavery. So for it to be reversed throughout the black community today would take a lot of time and patience. God Bless!!

I am an 18 year old light skinned MULTIRACIAL man. There is no such thing as a "light-skinned" black person because of the racial mixtures. We should be acknowledged for EVERYTHING we are and not be restricted to just "Black." By the way, I'm attracted to light-skinned multiracial women,hispanic women, and white women. So please stop trying to make light-skinned people something we're not!!

Hi Tyra,
I understand how dark skinned women feel that it's easier being light skinned; however, many don't understand what we as light skinned women go through either. I'm only 15 and still in high school, but I've had my share of discrimination to last a life time. My father is much darker than me and my mother is much lighter than me. She's not caucasian; she's just very fair. My mother's side of the family is all very fair and my father's side of the family is very dark. Whenever my mother and I go to a family function on my father's side of the family, we are often not spoken to and recieve very dirty looks. Many of my aunts and uncles don't like my mother and I, because we don't look like any of them. I can remember back in middle school when girls would talk about cutting off my ponytail, because I had long curly hair down to my back. They'd say things such as, "she thinks she's so cute just because she's light." I attended a predominatly caucasian elementary school and race was never an issue, but as soon as I got to middle school things all changed. I tryed to be friends with everyone, no matter what race. However, the dark skinned girls never fully accepted me. Many of them would act like they were my friend to my face, then when I wasn't around all they did was talk about me. I'm not racist and I try not to discriminate against anyone no matter what race, religion, or sexuality they are. However, I tend to gravitate towards people of light to medium skin, because I've had so many horrible experiences with girls of dark skin. I know that two wrongs don't make a right, but it's so hard to forget the past.

-Tori

Hey! first of all i love your show! i am very fair skin. Growing up in a very small town there were no darker people around in high school there was only 4 dark girls. They where all friends and I thought that it was sad because people at school to point fingers and be mean to them. I became friends with these girls and loved them to death i was the only girl in the group that was white. when i became friends with them the other kids in school started to make fun of me for hanging out with the "dark group" but i did not care skin color is not a factor for me it is more the person that matters. I believe that going through that experience in high school made me realize how hard it really is for darker people they were treated horribly by teachers and others. in one of my science classes i was Misty's partner she is very dark and of course being her partner all of our work was exactly the same and i always received a higher grade than her. It always made me feel horrible because she is a very smart person and there was no reason for the teacher to give her a lower grade.
everyone in this world should be treated the same we should all show respect.

why is it that most white women get or want a tan.. because they are "to white" but are so judge mental towards a black women...?

I am a beautiful brown girl and am so comfortable in my skintone. My two best friends in the entire world are both lighter than me. One is only slightly but the other would pass the paper bag test with flying colors with the gorgeous pircing hazel ojos to match. They have never treated me any different and can hang in all cirles of color. I think it just goes back to how a person was brought up. My mom always told me I was beautiful and to find what works for me. So I just do that and let the haters fall by the wayside. So to all my beautiful brown girls and + do you and wear your skin well!

Tyra im glad you had this show but i feel u failed to make any points. This show turned into a light-skinned bashing in a way. When the men were asked of their preferance they were cheered for saying they liked darker skinned women and booed for liking light skinned women. I am light skinned and will not apoligize for being so. I didnt know i was differant until darker skinned people felt open to telling me so. Im almost too frustrated to type. Both of my parents are darker than me, i just came out light as heck. Growing up i planned on only dating darker skinned men so that my kids wouldnt have to worry about not being "black" or "dark" enough. Its a shame that I felt that way but its true. You had the right idea to cover this issue but failed to accomplish anything. As far as light skinned people being "better" looking, all i can say is beauty is not a shade...Iman is dark and is one of the most stunning women ive ever seen. Ive seen plenty of lighter people who are not very attractive. If you cover this issue again down the line, you need to contact me.

Tryra,
my name is Adrianna . i am a hispanic and like on your thrusday show i am also a light skinned but mexican. i am 1/4 american only because i was born here , in ameraica . i wached your show and i do agree with the people in the show . it is hard to be white and almost full on mexican . i have been denied to be a mexican many many times before and it is devistateing but i can understand how people should ignore this factor . i am in 7th grade and live in Colorado and when known to be a mexican i have been called an imigrante , wet back and many other efensive things through out my school years and i expect alot more to come hearing the stories of my familly. because i live in colorado i do not speak spanish so none of my friends beleive i am hispanic. when i am with my grandfather and family i feel out of place becuase i am one of the whitest girls in my family. it is hard at times to except me being mexican in such a white neighborhood but with the help of my friends i feel in place . watching your show has made me feel proud of my hispanic-nes :)
but what i really wanted to put out there is that you are completely right and the things you influence on your show can show many other young people like me that race should NOT come to mind through dating school or anything like that :)

~THANKYOU !!! :)
-Adrianna Rodriguez

Hey Tyra,
I am a 14 year old white girl, i mean really,really white.I understand that there is still alot of racism in the world, and I am very happy that you tackle this topic because it needs to be adressed. I also appreciate how you take so much pride in your culture, but i would really like to see the " race card" played alot less on your show. I think sometimes the wrong impression is given through things that are adressed. People, to often, look at the color of someones skin as an excuse to hate them and that is a terrible thing, but you have to understand this is not a one sided issue. I went to a school where the majority of the people there were African American, and I made alot of good friends there, but there is still some resentment and racism to white people for things they did not even do in the past. i just want you understand that you don't have to be of the same race to undestand hurt and hatred. We are people who need love and that's all that matters. We are all made in God's image, so a far as I'm concerned we are all the same. Certain things have become very out of hand with race in today's society. I mean we are all people and deserve respect. thank you for your opinion and thank you for reading what i have to say.

Hey! first of all i love your show! i am very fair skin. Growing up in a very small town there were no darker people around ever in high school there was only like 4 dark girls. They where all friends and I thought that it was sad because people at school to point fingers and be mean to them. I became friends with these girls and loved them to death i was the only girl in the group that was white. when i became friends with them the other kids in school started to make fun of me for hanging out with the "dark group" but i did not care skin color is not a factor for me it is more the person that matters. I believe that going through that experience in high school made me realize how hard it really is for darker people they were treated horribly by teachers and others. in one of my science classes i was Misty's partner she is very dark and of course being her partner all of our work was exactly the same and i always received a higher grade than her. It always made me feel horrible because she is a very smart person and there was no reason for the teacher to give her a lower grade.
everyone in this world should be treated the same we should all show respect.

why is it that most white women get or want a tan.. because they are "to white" but are so judge mental towards a black women...?

this was sooooooooooooooooo ridiculous that whole light skin feeling better than dark skinned blacks situation. This is a damn shame that the Willie Lynch Letter worked out just as he predicted it to!!!!! I'm a black female who is very disapointed in this. White people usually dont care whether we are light or not because we are all black and we are making ourselves look very ignorant by worrying about skin tones. We need to rise above our suffers from slavery and stick together!!!!

Hi, Tyra I just watched your show on the different skin colors in the black community and I just wanted to thank you for airing that show. I'm a dark-skinned female always have been since the day i was born and when I was younger I did have issues with my skin color the kids always used to tease me;I always used to think if i was just a little lighter i would be pretty i loved my features just not my skin color but as I got older I fell in love with my skin color and with my self confidence many more people comment on my looks in a good way I'm 18 years old now and now that i'm out of high school i thought things would be better and just like mentioned on the show it's always someone commenting me and insulting me at the same time you're gorgeous for a dark girl and thats something that just irritates me. Also, I would like to comment on the comment that someone made at the top about how she called you racist because you said something about slavery. I believe that if people didn't still have that mind set then you wouldn't have to talk about it.Some people will always be ignorant!

dear tyra,
Hi Im Laura and I'm 14 years old. I love your show and I'm obsesed with americas next top model. I Just watched your show about if light skind african americans are trated better than dark sknined. I couldnt beleve that lady who didnt want her son to date dark girls!
But what I really wanted to tell you was that being a white person people judge your skin tone too. In the winter I am very white and my friends call me snow white. Most white people think that the tanner you are the more atractive you are. this one boy in my class who is black calls white people crakers and I think thats very racist. He calls himself and even white kids the n word! I was wondering why some black people call themselver the n word and think its ok but if a white person was to do that they would be called rasist?

hi tyra i love the show. To start i am a 14 year old girl who is a dark afican-american and to me skin tone does not matter its the person who is in that skin. But if you don't carry that well then you make that skin tone look ugly. You know why people say that light skined girls are stuck up and stuff like that is becuse they think the are better than us dark skinned women look bad but i personally love my dark skin. and it is BEAUTIFUL to me. maybe light skinned girls are jealuse of us dark skinned girls. i am not saying that all light skinned girls are but some are. to say i have light skinned friends and family i have nothing against it. but some people make it look ugly and i am not a fan of that.
sincerly,jada

hey i am young and i love any shade of blacks. they are all fun. i am actually a white girl but i have been asked if im black. most of my friends call me black so i just refer to myself as a black girl. i love dark skinned people i hate people who are races! write me back tyra please!

Tyra i am glad you did this show because it shows how color is an issue even among people of the same race although as a latina i have had a different experience, being a light skinned, light haired latina i am often rejected by my own people because i dont look like a stereotypical curvy brown latina. it is not always the LIGHT skinned people that have it better. us light skinned people (black, latino, desi, etc those of us who are "colored") are not seen as our race, we are seen as "white" and are ridiculed for it :-(

Hi Tyra!

My name is Anel and as I watched the show this afternoon I became more and more infuriated. Some people tell me that I shouldn't be so passionate about this, but I am and I can't help it. I am Dominican, and light skinned, and the same thing is happening in my community as well. Most of us are dark-skinned, but since we were kids, we have been taught that darker is evil. But I've always been sensitive about race. So when somebody makes a comment about anybody in any other race, it affects me just as much.

I think we should talk more about this. I think that we should let it be known in such a powerful way until we see things change in all of the country. It angers me how people would get hired because they look 'better' but they are not as prepared as someone whose skin color is not the 'whitest'. I still don't understand why everything has to be so black and white. It's as if everything is still divided. Movies are either black people or white people, but very few are about both. When will this ever end?

I am proud of colors. I'm proud of cultures. I have in my blood Indian, African and Spaniard blood. Let's accept that we are all one people, and instead of aspect, let's measure by kindness, by love, by peace and finally bring unity among us and that togetherness will catch up on the inside of us and we shall really feel like what we truly are:

beautiful human beings.

Thank you for this show, Tyra,

Sincerely,

Anel.

hi tyra. i just want to say that in my personal opinion i do believe that light skinned people are more pretty than darker people. that's not to say that dark skinned people arent beautiful because they. i like the features that light skinned people have better. but, i would also like to say that i dont think it should be an issue at all whether or not someone is light skinned or dark skinned. i treat everyone the same no matter what color they are. it's about their personality not the color of their skin pigment. i think people are taking it to far and being to unfair and judgemental about all this. when it comes down to it we are all humans which last time i checked means we are all the same except for very slight differences. we need to realize that we are all the same species of animal, a human and come together because we are human not because we are white or black asian. sadly i think that racism will always be a problem because there will always be people out there willing to perpetuate it.

I agree with the previous comment about a lot of hate being stirred up. I am white and I like black people no matter what how light or dark their skin is. It depends on the person. As a matter of fact my best friend was black. Like the previous post said.....Jews were wrongly treated. White people were also enslaved once. It is all in the past and if black people would quit playing the victim about every little thing then our kids would not have to grow up knowing about all of this hate. And I personally thought that your show today was very hypocritical. You are wanting dark-skinned people to be treated fairly but your whole show was centered around putting down light skin people. When the darker guys said he prefers dark skinned girls everybody clapped but when the light guy said he prefers light skinned girls he got ridiculed. And he even made a comment about it. And everybody in the audience made a face at the girl that was telling her story about her ponytail. You even got a close up of a girl making a face and shaking her head. You think that is okay???????? I guess that is okay though......Her feelings dont count since she is so light in skin color. You need to open your eyes. Equality is not one-sided.

Well i'm 14 and I feel that light skinned people do have it easier than dark skinned people do. I'm light skinned and no offence to anyone but I do feel like majority of light skinned people or yellow people do look better than dark skinned people but their are some beautiful dark skinned people that would not look beautiful if they were yellow. This is my opinion but THE TWO SISTERS ON THE SHOW,it wasn't because one was black and one was not it was one looked better than the other. The lady on the show that said she doesn't feel dark skinned women are better than lighter was not correct but people including Tyra should not jump on her because of her views.

hi my name is shon-ann and i just watch ur show n im a 14 year old byracel child in middle school my father is black and my mother is white and when people here me say that they think that im a lie because i actully do look like a white girl i have really thin hair a real light skined complection and as i get older it dosent get better ive been called a stupid red girl some girls have told me o you think your cute because your so light skined but no thats not the case i think that is so wrong because i would never say that about any one no matter what color they may be butit dosent get harder but it dosent get better ive had darker girl wanna fight me because thet asume that i think that im all that and i dont to me it dosent really matter what color you are. me as a person i have a lot of dark skined friends and when most of them meet me right off the back they thought i was a white girl. i loved your show today it was so great that you did it

love shon-ann cannady

WOW! I am so shocked on how these women are acting over skin color. OK I am 20 years old I am hispanic as are both of my parents, my parents are so dark and i can pass as a white female when my hair is blonde. All my brothers are extremely dark like my parents. We grew up in a community and a neighborhood full of african american people we were a couple of the few first hispanics to go to the elementry school we attended, and my brothers blended in, and of course i never did. As a matter of fact my brother (hispanic) is alot darker than our african american neighbors. I eventually moved schools when my brothers graduated. The dark skin is in my family. So to that mother that said she "doesnt care what her son brings home as long as she aint dark skinned" think again girl cuz my kid just might come out dark skinned beacause it is in my blood, and my babies dad is just as light as me, however his dad is dark and mom is light both hispanic as well. So you never know skin color has nothing o do with it. I think me and my brothers are equally beautiful, and if my baby is dark I will love it just as much as I would if It was light. It is what is on the inside of a person that makes them beautiful not the outside! THANK YOU

Tyra,

I saw the preview for this show and i just knew i had to see it. I am from nigera but born in the us. I am always having to do more then my friends beacuse they are light skin and men often look at them first even when we r right next to each other. once they are done talking with my friend they look at me and often times say the same thing " You are so pretty for a DARK SKIN GIRL". now i fill like crap even though i know they r trying to be nice. it makes me feel like if i am next to a less pretty " Light Skin Women" i am not as pretty. i often times wont do or go to certain things if all my light skin friends are going just because i already know that i cant just put on something and go i have to be one step ahead. when i was alil younger i tried doing music videos but i would always be told the same thing " your very pretty but just To Dark for this video. i dont think i am ugly but growing up in this world a sexy chocolate complextion does not get you any where but to the back of the line....

Hello Tyra,
First and foremost I would like to say that you actually talk about issues that people as a mass can relate to. Male, famale, black, white, gay and straight. Your shows have lessons and deliver inspiration to all. I personally think all shades are beautiful whether it is the dark skin sister with a big nose and short to the light skin lady with long hair. All are beautiful and beauty is based upon one's perception which means not anyone's preference is better than the other. My issue is that how can we expect someone from another race to respect and embrace our african hertiage when most of us dont embrace and respect our diversity within a beautiful, vivid, and strong culture that all us black people share? That has always puzzeled me.
Tyra, keep up the great work and please see that the guest with 12 year old soon gets professional help. That cycle needs to stop before her son has hard feelings towards her down the line in life.

this was sooooooooooooooooo ridiculous that whole light skin feeling better than dark skinned blacks. This is a damn shame that the Willie Lynch Letter worked out just as he predicted it to!!!!! I'm a black female who is very disapointed in this. White people usually dont care whether we are light or not because we are all black and we are making ourselves look very ignorant by worrying about skin tones. We need to rise above our suffers from slavery and stick together!!!!