Milk Chocolate vs. Dark Chocolate

Since the beginning of slavery, the perception and treatment of blacks has always been a issue simply based on the separation of skin color within blacks. The "light-skinnded" blacks were often used as house negroes who usually got the easier and much more generous workload while the "dark-skinnded" were usually the ones doing the hard labor in the fields. The lighter-skinned house negroes were more than often the offspring of master and slave, resulting in lighter skin, who usually ate better, often got taught to read and write, and enjoyed liberties that many slaves could only dream of. The darker-skinned field negroes were usually stuck working 18-hour shifts in the hot sun doing hard manual labor and being whipped for any discretion against the master. Though it has died down exponentially, this separation within the black community still remains in society today. The anger over the separation has never quite gone away.

In society today, lighter-skinned blacks are usually viewed as better, more polished, and more privileged than the darks. No matter how hard they may try to avoid it, the dark-skin hue of certain African Americans would be their resume in certain areas of life. Usually within the entertainment media, and many other social aspects in society, lighter-skinned blacks are usually represented as they are seen to be more desirable in societies eyes. Many times you will hear rappers talk about "red bones" or "yellow bone" girls in their lyrics which are slang terms for light-skins. Even in music videos and movies, most of the time you will see light-skinned girls being used as cast members rather than darks simply because they are more preferable and desirable in society. Maybe this is because they are closer in looks and relation to whites (being that most of them are mixed of some sort of Caucasian decent). Or even because they are known to have more beautiful features including, longer hair, prettier eyes, and even prettier skin than the darker African Americans. Whatever the reason is, there is no rule in society saying that light-skin blacks are better than darks. Society needs to demolish their desire to surround themselves with people who look more like them and be more open to the acknowledgement of something and someone different than themselves.

http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/the-gaggle/2010/01/11/the-ugly-roots-of-the-light-skin-dark-skin-divide.html