I had red hair and freckles for a few years in elementary school, and I experienced far more social abuse during that period than during my previous blonde-haired and later brown-haired life.

People can be so mean and judging..

I always felt my brown hair and brown eyes were boring as hell and I envied a friend with beautiful red hair and green eyes. So beautiful to me.

Girls with red hair didn't seem to be mistreated as much from what I recall.

I was a redhead, too. It's unpleasant when you're a boy.

And...I was born in Ohio! (I assume that a Buckeye Dem is from Ohio.) My best friend in Junior High School when I lived in Ohio was the one with red hair and green eyes.

Blackish did a show on this last season. I’m so naive. I did not know this type of judgment existed among African Americans.

That was surprising to me.

It's a kind of stereotyping.

Usually these days "stereotype" is like "discrimination," the only possible context is "racial". But we discriminate in all sorts of ways (it's often good, "to discriminate between healthy and unhealthy foods," for example) and stereotype constantly. When we assume all rich people are greedy or lazy, all (D) are virtuous, all Southerners racist, all Texans are "gun humpers" (as opposed to Northerner "blanket humpers," I guess).

You see how birds are brightly colored? At some point some group of female birds looked at the male birds and said, "We like bright blue this year. You dull blue and grey boy birds, you're gonna be incels. Buh-bye from the gene pool."

The short-lived but critically-acclaimed and award-winning 80's series "Frank's Place" with Tim Reid (post-WKRP) explored this in the episode, "Frank Joins the Club."

I remember a movie in which the Indian characters talked about being "dark with no money" as the worst possible position to be in when looking for a husband.

The "ginger prejudice" against redheads is very strong in England from what I've read.

with anti-Scot animus. They were the wild northerners, behind and backwards with their Pictish ways.

Imagine if US Southerners disproportionately had green eyes. We'd come to associate green eyes with Confederate sympathies. It's a shortcut in thinking.

Queen Eliz. I and her father Henry VIII who were redheads. I remember at work a British volunteer who first heard about the engagement of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson and said, "but she's a redhead." Lol.

short, dark city dwellers.'

1. India 43.6 64.3
2 Lebanon 36.3 64.4
3 Bahrain 31.1 85.7
4 Libya 54.0 33.5
5 Egypt N/A 39.7
6 Philippines 30.6 49.1
7 Kuwait 28.1 37.9
8 Palestine 44.0 32.0
9 South Africa 19.6 61.8
10 South Korea 29.6 36.5

https://businesstech.co.za/news/lifestyle/116644/the-most-racist-countries-in-the-world/amp/

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Anglo and Latin countries most tolerant.
India and Jordan by far the least tolerant.
Wide, interesting variation across Europe.
The Middle East not so tolerant. (Except Israel)
Racial tolerance low in diverse Asian countries.
South Korea, not very tolerant, is an outlier.
Pakistan, remarkably tolerant, also an outlier.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15/a-fascinating-map-of-the-worlds-most-and-least-racially-tolerant-countries/

Of course I lived it. The worst prejudice as a very fair skinned black woman was from dark skinned black people. In high school I was called a white n word. I hated that I was light skinned and wished I could be all black or white. It was tough to navigate. Both my parents could have passed for white and there was no wearing my hair in an Afro ( my hair wasn’t kinky enough) My relatives from both sides were adamant against me acting ghetto. Some of the stuff I remember hearing from my relatives would be so inappropriate to say now.

I love that Lupita embraced her beauty!

My uncle was my great grandma's son.

He used to call her a gypsy because of her dark hair.

and she got the looks in the family hands down.

Thanks for posting this interview.