Henry Cele doesn’t count, does he?
Well, technically, Djimon Hounsou might not, either. Or Seal. But what the heck.
How about Joe Morton, Dr. Dyson himself from Terminator 2; or Brock Peters, noted Star Trek actor (that, and I think he was in some movie with Gregory Peck…I think it was Moby Dick)?
Or maybe Geoffrey Holder?
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Henry Cele doesn’t count, does he?
Well, technically, Djimon Hounsou might not, either. Or Seal. But what the heck.
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If the OP wants US born celebs then Chiwetel Ejiofor is out too and don’t none of you try to claim Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje either 
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…Brock Peters…Gregory Peck…I think it was Moby Dick?..
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To Kill a Mockingbird !
CMC fnord!
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Deciding to look into politics, because I haven’t seen a picture of him in quite a while, I checked out Barack Obama but he’s not that dark-looking…there, anyway.
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Nope, he’s not very dark. His father was from Kenya, sure, but his mother was an American of white European descent.
George Hamilton.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
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George Hamilton.
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My man wins the thread!
Oprah Winfrey
I guess it’s just a matter of opinion, because they’re all dark in my book.
The actor who plays this guy.
Seal isn’t American, but was popular here in, what, the early 90’s? Also, he’s a celebrity you often see in magazines at parties and such with his wife. He’s quite dark.
A very dark-skinned comic, I believe it was A.J. Jamal, had a bit where he said that he’d heard that in the days of slavery, the lighter-skinned slaves were the ones who worked in or near the main house, while the darker slaves worked farthest from the house. So, he said, “my people must’ve been two feet from freedom.”
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I hope this thread isn’t found sketchy-- definitely not my intent.
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Good heavens. A slang use of sketchy I’ve never heard before, though [url=“Urban Dictionary: sketchy”]Urban Dictionary
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shows it in a number of contexts. When did this start?
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Good heavens. A slang use of sketchy I’ve never heard before, though Urban Dictionary shows it in a number of contexts. When did this start?
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Every single time I don’t preview. :smack:
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Good heavens. A slang use of sketchy I’ve never heard before, though [url=“Urban Dictionary: sketchy”]Urban Dictionary
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shows it in a number of contexts. When did this start?
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Which use haven’t you heard? Is it sketchy, as in a bad feeling, like “that neighborhood’s a bit sketchy”? If so, I’ve only heard sketchy in that context, at least since the early 90s.
No love for Grace Jones?
I dunno how US she is, and she might not be quite a celebrity, but Sudanese born supermodel Alek Wek is probably the darkest-skinned female with any serious media presence.
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My brief mental skim suggests that the cultural block against darker-skinned people attaining celebrity is very real. But now I’m putting it to y’all.
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Hell, even back in the 1950s when racial bias was a lot more open, Nat King Cole was popular enough to get his own network TV show.
So do all these examples mean we’re not as racist as the OP thought we were…?
Seems to me the light-skinned bias might only effect black women more, but even there we have a couple of counter-examples.
Ben Vereen and Wayne Brady.
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Hell, even back in the 1950s when racial bias was a lot more open, Nat King Cole was popular enough to get his own network TV show.
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As was Hattie McDaniel.
