Yesterday I got a tattoo (AND THE PROVIDED PICTURE IS NOT IT! THAT'S NOT ME LOL) And my tattoo artist Haley was talking to a fellow tat artist and she asked him how the tat he just did went. He said, "Alright but occassionally I lost the line because she was dark as fuck! But nothing like the guy I did the other day I mean he was dark as this glove (which was black) I shoulda just said no (to giving them a tattoo)Now...at the moment I kinda just chuckled.
My tattoo artist then looked at me and said...But of course Reds and purples will show up real good on you. (since I have a red star) .............I'm not dark but I'm not light either. If you picked up a brown crayon.......I'd be about that lol...maybe a lil lighter. Point is...I'm on the darker side.
I hate these moments because 1. I don't wanna piss off my tattoo artist (I mean she gave me a 50 dollar discount because I put her in a 'good mood') 2. How do you go about telling a white person that they sound racist? Or that the joke was insensitive EVEN if it was a legitimate complaint? It just may be harder to tattoo a dark skinned person.... 3. We [black folk] joke about skin tone all the time...I've hard light skinned people be called light bright. I've heard dark skinned people be called midnight. My question I suppose is it ever fair to call out another race for doing the same shit we do? (Like the whole nigga thing...but see nigga has a really complicated history and I still wouldn't want a white person calling me a nigga -not that it would personally offend me -but it would offend my racial lineage and I have to take that into account)
Point is...it was insensitive...I feel like I should have said something...I guess I didn't know how to go about doing that. What exactly do you do?
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