Talk:High yellow

message: And they really don't reference how Indian's also have issues with this skin tone thing.  It's not just AA.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.5.254.14 (talk) 18:16, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: If she was YELLOW, that means she was not BLACK. She was interracial. The ODR didn't even apply in Texas at that time. Please stop hijacking everyone that has even a trace of Negroid ancestry for the silly "AA" catagory!! JBDay 04:33, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "African-American?" 

message: There is no way in Hell that I will ever believe that High yellow is an insult.  The opposite is true.  Velocicaptor 00:37, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Dr. Ralph Bunche is the best example of a successful High yellow.  Velocicaptor 14:12, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My first introduction to the term was from a black pastor, very well educated, who described the use to me, with absolutely no indication that it was offensive, just antiquated, a part of his cultural background. he himself could probably be considered high yellow, and i believe he mentioned that. its definitely not as insulting as the n word, and was used by african americans to indicate those among them of lighter skin tone: different, but not necessarily bad. I dont know about white use of the term.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 06:34, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: What insult?

message: This has been around since 2004, and it still doesn't have any citations?  Searching Google brings up a hit in Urban Dictionary, hits in some blogs, and a reference to an article in Essence from 2004, plus lots of hits related to birds and geckos.  But there's a reference to Alexander Dumas in Time Magazine that might help. 
This is really a "dictdef", a dictionary definition, and should be moved (transwikied) to Wictionary.   --John Nagle 05:49, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs citations 

message: --CopyToWiktionaryBot 05:12, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  2007-08-20 Automated pywikipediabot message 

message: I think that the use of this term is so specific to cultural context that using a random light-skinned person with black ancestry to illustrate it is misleading.
The application of the term to any particular person should be sourced. I'm sure a photo can be found of someone to whom the term was actually applied while it was current.
Dybryd 07:07, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: POV picture

message: I notice that some material on genetics has been added and removed a couple of times. Can we discuss it here before making the change again?
I have no position on the inclusion myself. The term "high yellow" is a cultural one, not a biological one - it doesn't automatically apply to light-skinned blacks any more than "cracker" automatically applies to whites. However, the facts of skin color are obviously of some tangential relevance.
Dybryd 02:14, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: including material on genetics?

message: I believe that this section is problematic. I think that, at the very least, each entry should have a source; but since the term is considered derogatory I would argue that this list is inappropriate. If there's no objection I intend to blank this section.— James Estevez (talk) 03:27, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Section deleted. — James Estevez (talk) 05:55, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable People 

message: There was a line by the African American train porter, as Deanna Durbin told him not to forget her yellow bag.  "High yellow, that's my favorite color!" he replied with a smile.24.253.195.42 (talk) 18:03, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  It Started With Eve (1941) 

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message: that no color pictures to illustrate are included Talastra (talk) 18:49, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  It seems perverse