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Examples

  • Ever notice the only Host they have on CNN are lightskin?

    Bossip Bossip Baby 2010

  • Given the statistical breakdown of the skin colors of the people in the area, and the vagueness of the description, my gut sense is that it’s about equally likely that the perpetrator had dark skin as lightskin.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Brown v. City of Oneonta: 2009

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