Quote from Iyabinghi:"To become offended by this discussion will serve only to highlight the remnants of your priviledge and entitlement of being white. But if you are willing to openly and honestly engage in such a discourse then we can peacefully remove the layers of pain and hurt that exist among the collective of I'n'I people, especially the blacker black. However one should overstand and be fully aware that the pain felt by blacks all across the board does not come in degrees. It is the same pain felt with the same intensity, giving off the same reaction. And no amount of division by some who call ourselves educated enough to address this issue will deny the sameness and severity of that pain."

How can you as an individual say that all pain felt is the same and doesn't differ in any degree. What qualifies you to make such a totalitarian statement. As you said, you are a light skinned black, which means that although you will face and experience racial discrimation, the White Supremacist system is often more willing to let you sqeeze by, than a very dark Black. This is a reality, even if you don't experience it to the harshest degree, there are those that can attest to it, by way of their DIREcT EXPERIENCEs. This is not an attack on your Afrikaness, it is just a frank observation of reality, that encourages a very ruthless self examination of self in order to properly understand and overturn the plethora of privelege and White Supremacy that has held the world in bondage for centuries. And who better to lead this reformation than the people who have reformation than INFORMED 'blacker than black' Blacks who have generally received the harshest end of the White Supremacist stick across the whole color spectrum.