I have dark skin. If you look at me, my skin colour would be on the darker end of the human skin tone spectrum. My skin is brown, not fair. I'm also brunette, but my hair is dyed red. (As you can see from my posing header picture).
Among black people, I am ‘brown skinned.’ In some cases I could even be classed as ‘light skinned.’ Light skin is skin that is light. Technically, white people have light skin because their skin is pale and fair. Black people have dark skin. It’s just basic logic.
My dad grew up in Tanzania, and often talks about how he was bullied for being light skinned. To me, he is not ‘light skinned’; his skin is roughly the same tone as mine. But in Tanzania, an ethnically homogeneous country where most people look like charcoal, he is ‘cheupe dawa.’ Literally translated that means ‘white pills.’ It’s a slang term for black people with light brown skin. In a country where the majority of the population have skin the colour of green and blacks’ dark chocolate, it's no wonder someone with lighter skin is classed as different.
But skin is just skin, and colour is just pigmentation and melanin. Having light brown skin doesn’t make you ‘superior’ any more than having blonde hair does. It seems silly to point it out, but darkskin vs lightskin is something black people obsess over. In secondary school I remember hearing the popular girls crowing about how blessed it was to be a ‘lightie hotspice’ rather than ‘blick and buterz.’ (Racist much? Is it just me or are black people way more 'racist' or racially obsessed than white people?) Skin tone should not be seen as good or bad. Colour is only skin deep.
White people are also funny with skin. Being pale for a white person is considered bad; they want to be tanned. (Ironic, eh?) When a white person gets a tan they are considered dark; next to me they look like buttermilk. Pale skin is considered unhealthy and sallow; it burns easily and looks ‘sickly.’ I’ve always found it hilarious the way white people obsess over wanting to get a tan. I find it just as funny as the dark skin vs light skin nonsense among black people.
Skin is just skin. Hair is just hair. Why the fuck are blondes 'dumb' and brunettes 'smart'? I think the dumb people are the ones that think hair colour actually affects intelligence. As as for gingers having no souls? No one has a literal 'soul'; souls aren't a real thing. I dunno where this shit about 'light skin' and 'light hair' being better came from. Probably some racist slavery bullshit. (Honestly, when I'm Queen of the planet I'm going to kill everyone that thinks that way). The colour of your skin and hair means fuck all for your personality. It doesn't make you 'superior' or 'inferior' for anyone. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder; some people find blondes more attractive, some like thick darkskinned women, some like curvy lightskinned women, some like skinny brunettes, and some like men.