Internalized Racism: Discrimination In The African American Community

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Internalized racism is colorism, which is discrimination based on skin color. Colorism results in darker-skinned people from a variety of racial backgrounds African Americana, Asian, Hispanic being treated worse than their lighter-skinned counterparts by whites or even members of their own racial group. And vice versa, in the African American community, people are not view as black if the tone of the skin is dark enough. In every ethnic group there is discrimination upon others within the same ethnic group, it is not necessary the skin color, but it is a factor, as well as socio economic status, the ones from the city look down upon the people from the country side, the ones going to expensive schools toward the public-school’s students,