Sigh. Are we still talking about light skinned/dark skinned?

Are we still in the mindstate of that movie “School Daze” where there are the “jiggaboos” and the “wannabes”? Honestly, I am over it. Just over it. Besides, the “light skinned” era is overrated and played out (yes, I said it!). As long as we have videos that glorify “exotic” women and Yung Berg’s infamous statement about dark butts and a pool test, the whole light skinned/dark skinned controversy will never end, will it?

I already know about Usher’s ex-wife and her so called blog about dark skinned women (I don’t want to go there as far as whether or not she plagiarized a blog). However, I  just feel like she is trying to ruffle up some feathers the way Yung Berg did. Does this sound like a bitter old woman? To me, it just sounds like she wasn’t comfortable with herself and her marriage, therefore, she needed to lash out.

“In an interview in the October issue of Upscale magazine, the former Mrs. Usher Raymond recounts how she was savagely judged by bloggers because, as she puts it, she didn’t fit the image of the kind of woman people thought Usher should marry.

“I understand where all the negativity comes from,” she told the magazine. “Unfortunately I think that some black women are — subconsciously — not in love with the image they see in the mirror. Therefore in turn they do not love someone like me. I look too much like them.”

“They would definitely have preferred my husband marry someone more exotic looking. I was not given a fair shot,” she explained. “People passed judgment without getting to know me. How can you get the entire concept of who I am from a blog?”

“The dissolution of marriage is always upsetting,” she said. “You have the expectation that it will work. But, you know what? It didn’t work. But he’s (Usher) a great guy. I will always love him.” (source)

So is she blaming the blogs and society for the dissolution of her marriage? Sounds like it to me. That’s like me blaming the bartender for getting me drunk off of those Grey Goose apple martinis. Hmph.

As for Tameka entertaining the thought of the media wanting Usher to marry an exotic woman, if that is not screaming insecure, then I don’t know what is.