Red Table Talk is the talk show we didn’t know we needed. And this week’s episode hits particularly close to home for the Black community.
Host Jada Pinkett Smith, along with her daughter, Willow, and mother, Adrienne Banfield Norris, sat down for Wednesday’s all-new episode of the hit Facebook Watch series in which they shared their personal experiences with colorism. “It’s discrimination or prejudice based on skin tone from members of the same race,” Pinkett Smith said in the episode, which was filmed prior to the world shutting down due to COVID-19.
Pinkett Smith explained that colorism began during slavery when White slave owners would often “rape their slaves who gave birth to light-skinned children.” These children, she added,