This is bullcrap.

So just because I am on the light side of the Haitian chain means im not Haitian?

This girl is simply hating on the Mulattoes in the south of Haiti.

The most beautiful women are from there..

Mulatto...beautiful.

I agree to a certain extent...but did the light skined girl not ended up marrying the dark ugly guy? wouldn't that prove your whole theory wrong?

Maybe you read too much into it. I'm dark caramel, whatever you want to call it...i have light skined grand parents. I grew up around mulattoes and i've made very good friends among the mullatoes and the dark skined...

I know a lot of mulattoes who have kids with dark skined women...I think your reaction comes mostly from the fact that you as an individual and all the other ones who feel this way,  always felt inferior and or wanted to have the features of a grimelle, and you're acting out on your own frustation, and envy and jaleousy. Which explains why a lot of dark skined haitian girls her in the US prefer puerto-ricans (light-skined) and Italian even they are treated badly by them 

I'll tell you this much...in haiti, it doesn't mean much to have light skined when your have "no name". look at all the mulattoes from jackmel, are they treated any different then their dark skined neighbors?

Haiti is socially divided. and as you've already acknowleged it, most of the mulattoes inherited their power and wealth from their white ancestors. In every society money talks whether you're dark or light.

and another thing....you said there are racism...how were you treated by Sandra who was light skined and according to you dissed the guy based on his skin colour? Did you not say you were similar in almost every way, until you eyes became "opened" and you noticed the colour difference between the two of you?

were you ever rejected or treated badly by a light skined person?

Why do you feel that T-vice and the "non-haitian looking girls" should not represent Haiti, are they not haitian?

An iferiority complex or jealousy can be manifested in either sucking up to the light skined or resenting them. But if you are confident that you or any dark skined person can be as beautiful, you won't be affected by the difference.

If you belong to a black wealthy family in Haiti, you will be as privileged as the light skined mulattoes. i think the complex is coming mostly from the darker skined haitian, mostly female.

if being mulattoes or light skined reflect a certain social class, then you can understand why they might have special treatment. if Donald Trump or Russle Simons walks into a place, what do you think the difference will be? And we're living in a country where the political structure is black and white and far more racially segregated than the country you run from.

my conclusion is the correct word would be preference rather than racism.

Maille Kauk

So, then you understand why your mother had you by a white man!!

I know I'm late in my response to this article, but is light-skinned dark-skinned racism in Haiti as bad as the article makes it sound?

I never even knew that black people discriminated amongst themselves when it came to skin shade. What happens when there are several shades whithin the same family? This is really amazing to me.

I have not connected to haitixchange for a long time cause I was in haiti and at work I had lots to do.  Sometimes I read some stuffs but i never had the time to reply to a post.

I left Haiti when i was 19 years old, there are lots of things i was naive about.  I did not understand then, what was going on in my school in Haiti, they had little groups here and there.   Now when I went back in 2001, talking to couple students.  I started acknoledge the problem.   I grew up around Mulatto, at school when i was in Haiti I never had problems with them.  1st, I was smart and always teachers' favorite student ,but now I realize some differenciation, i used to see among everyone at school mostly based on skin complexion.  In Haiti they always favor light skinned kids, us black skinned when i mean us I am talking about you and I, so now I can see the problem is us.  Nothing can get to you if you don't let them.  we dark skinned kids show that we are inferior to light skinned most of the time. 

I am from Jacmel born and raised, when we are talking about light skinned people, I know.  Right now there is more dark skin in Jacmel than before.  My primary school in Jacmel, it was almost equal light and dark shin student, I am talking about 28 years ago.

My opinion, where there is misery anything can exist, but this problem has nothing to do with misery but our parents, our teachers, our neighbors.  to tell you the truth everyone is envolved, short story in a family, very small family the one who's light skinned has more attention then every other kids in the family by parents, teachers, neighbors the whole society. Haiti is a black country regardless of your skin color, the type of your hair , you consider Black everywhere in the world.  I saw dark skin Haitian call light skin Haitian, White (blan).  We have so much to do for Haiti we don't even know where to start.