by Paula Neal Mooney You may have already heard from Media Takeout the uproar this flier caused, soliciting light-skinned women to come to a party in Detroit for free. With a pic of a light-skinned black woman on the flier, and "light skinned women & all Libra's free entry all night" on the bottom of the image, this "light skin" bash harkens back to the days when we used to give each other the brown-paper bag test. That's during the era when blacks stood humiliating at the door of a party and had to pass either one or all of three tests I've heard of: Stick your arm in a brown paper bag -- if you were lighter than the bag, you were in. If your veins showed thru your skin -- you were in. If a fine-toothed comb could pass easily thru your hair -- you were in. Did I miss any inane tests? The Light-Skinned, Dark-Skinned Thing... ...has been around for ages, ever since there were house vs. field folks. Of course the politically correct thing to say her...
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