When Devin Booker recently talked about having to overcome a 'light-skinned' reputation in the NBA he was touching on a larger issue.
Devin Booker recently admitted something that's motivated him throughout his eight-year career with the Suns.After the Phoenix beat Minnesota on Nov. 9, the All-Star guard and face of the Suns' franchise was asked about how he aggressively sets the tone for his team in every game.
But the comments by both NBA stars touched on an issue embedded skin-deep in basketball and the African-American community for generations: colorism, defined as prejudice or discrimination against individuals with a darker skin tone, usually among people of the same ethnic or racial group. Curry, known for his excellent ball-handling skills and shooting touch, is fair-skinned; his parents are both African-American. His father is former NBA player Dell Curry. Thompson has a white mother and his father is retired NBA player Mychal Thompson, who's Black and from the Bahamas.
Brooks believes that colorism between light- and dark-skinned African-Americans began to shift in the African American community after the"Loving vs. Virginia" case and the rise of the Black Power movement in the 1960s. Williams realized later in life that colorism was against the unification of Black people of all shades.
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