Are light skin blacks preferred over dark skin blacks? We would prefer not to discuss this, but studies have shown that light skin blacks are preferred over dark skin ones. Mixed-race people are socially placed below whites, but ahead of blacks. According to a study done by NEWSONE For Black America, reveals dark-skin black women are given stiffer prison sentences than their lighter-skin counterparts.The study, which sampled over 12,000 black women imprisoned in North Carolina between 1995 and 2009, showed that light-skinned women were sentenced to 12 percent less time behind bars than their darker-skinned counterparts. The results also showed that having light skin reduces the actual time served by 11 percent.
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