intra-black racism is about something more than just Chris Rock's "black people and niggers" bit. A lot of resentment exists between lighter skinned blacks and dark skinned blacks in America, but it's rarely something that's addressed outside of the black community (i remember Oprah did a bit on it, and alleged she had encountered it in her family)

man that sounds frustrating .. when will these people learn to accept that others feel comfortable in a different way then they do themselves ?

Should I worry? A few months I showed my daughter an eggplant and said I don't like them and she reponded "The people with the brown skin, they like them, right?"

She isn't racist by the way, just found it funny.

WTF?

It was something even more prevalent back in the day when Portuguese used to appoint light skinned blacks in Guinea plantations to serve as foreman.

Light skinned women often were used as concubines and light skinned kids also got tasked less and often had perks.

That was an old tatic that European settlers used to divide the slaves and keep control.

In most african countries this practice was forgotten but in places like Congo, Tutsies and Hutus still feel the damage done by Belgians, which ruled them with ubber brutality.

Bullying doesn't need reasons. It's all about not liking someone and having the ablity to cause pain to that person. Because It makes the bully feel powerful.

Can't be sure there's any causation between that and relations in the US.

This is nothing new, obviously. I went to a school that was pretty evenly split between white people and black people. Racial tensions were often high, especially since we had quite a few rednecks, as well. Black people who got too chummy with white people were often singled out.

I remember one incident that pretty ugly. A group of white guys were into Frisbee and would play at lunch. There was a black kid who liked to play, as well, and he would occasionally join them. One day the "bad" black guys noticed this and started mocking him from where they hung out. They yelled some really ugly stuff but he ignored them at first. Eventually they started throwing rocks at him, as hard as they could. They ran him off and I'm pretty sure he never played with the white kids again.

Thank you. Yes I agree things are a bit different these days with bullies grouping up and doing the things they're doing not just one bully doing it a lone on top of laying some viicious beatings on people. I've never had to deal with groups it was one person every time. I personally can understand school shooting the torment that constant verbal abuse/bullying does to someone is horrible and I can't even imagine what it does to you mentally after years and years I dealth with it for a month maybe two (I was eight can't remember exactly how long it went on).

Also to brighten peoples day in this thread here is a guy saving a girl being beaten by five other girls.