Yeah, Aaron’s right, I should have posted the picture. I just wanted to retain the element of surprise, because seriously - a light-skinned party? For real? In 2007?
Well, as it turned out, there was a tremendous b(l)acklash, so it didn’t go down. From the Detroit News…
DETROIT — A local DJ and party promoter retreated Thursday from a plan to sponsor a bash that would let “light-skinned” black women into a downtown club for free.But the “Light Skin Libra Birthday Bash” at Club APT on Woodward Avenue turned out to be a bashing — of promoter Ulysses “DJ Lish” Barnes after word of the unusual party spread on the Internet.
“I made a mistake,” Barnes said. “I didn’t think there would be a backlash.”
Barnes, who said he’s been a party promoter for six years, canceled the event.
He said he has gotten angry calls and e-mails from around the country about the party.
“I didn’t mean to offend anyone,” he said. “I had planned a party for other shades (of black women). We were going to take a shade of color each week. Next week was going to be a party for ‘Sexy Chocolate’ and the week after that ‘Sexy Caramel.’?”
Is he serious? Even if that was his master plan, and that explanation is specious enough, he couldn’t have come up with another, “friendlier”(?) adjective, like he did with ’sexy chocolate’ and ’sexy caramel’? (Seriously. This dude’s a party promoter, and that’s the best he could come up with? Where’s Don King? I bet HE could’ve busted out with a fancy name.)
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