safehaven215

The brown paper bag test was a ritual that was once used by black fraternities and sororities and other organizations to determine social ordering based on skin color. Basically it went something like this. Anyone whose skin was darker than a brown paper bag was ineligible to join. I'm sure you're wondering why... why would African Americans use this form of oppression at all, let alone on their own people. The reason that Frantz Fanon (psychologist) came up with is that members of an oppressed group will frequently internalize the attitudes of their oppressors and then direct that aggression at each other. Don't you find it a little strange that some sororities and fraternities have a majority a members that are light skin, and others that have a majority of members with a darker complexion. I'm not trying to bash black sororities and fraternities, I'm just sayin....

Peace Trevor Winston Lee