Racism is prejudice, hostility, or discrimination shown by an individual or society to other on the basis of color, race or community. As we are a visual species and we respond each other according to our physical nature so skin color matters. In addition to this, there are race-based prejudices among human beings to some particular skin colors and like belongs like and also in present day society, skin color had become a signifier of identity and value. In United States especially, where there is extremely diverse population, race still matters and so does skin color. Not only in European countries but also it exists in some Muslim countries.

In 21st century, due to expanded migration and interracial unions, America has less white and many racial communities. A person’s skin color is irrefutable visual thing that can’t be hide and race is visible by government forms. At the same time, skin color has become the most obvious thing by which a person is judged and evaluated. In European countries, there is deeply entranced racism. Dark skin there is underestimated and white skinned person becomes able to win prize. This is because this country was built on certain principles of racism. We can’t say that if racism doesn’t exist then skin color would be a aesthetic conversation. This is not so. Lighter skin color has got privilege against dark skin; colorism.

The funniest thing is that the word colorism even neither exists officially nor in dictionary. It even autocorrects in computer screens. Still some author and scholars try to define and explain this. The author and social activist Alice Walker is credited as the first one to use the word ‘colorism’. She wrote a book in 1983, “In search of our Mother” she defines colorism as

The preference for lighter skin had almost become common practice in black societies for many generations but Alice Walker gave it special name and called it ‘evil’ that should be stopped to allow African-Americans to progress fine.
But black Americans are not the only people obsessed with how light or dark a person’s skin is. Colorism is a societal ill felt in many places all around the world, including Latin America, East and Southeast Asia, the Caribbean and Africa. Here in the U.S., because we are such a diverse population with citizens hailing from all corners of the earth, our brand of colorism is both homegrown and imported. And make no mistake, white Americans are just as “colorist” as their brown brothers and sisters.
A researcher for “The Washington Post” touched the topic of skin color and told that how many liberal-minded people display light skin a bias. In New York Times, He told in 2010:

In United States, It is repeated at various times that skin color plays a major role in telling who goes ahead and who can’t. Regardless of the fact that word “colorism” does not exists in world, scholars and researchers are trying to track back its existence. In 2006, a study in University of Georgia found that employers of any of race preferred light-skinned men to dark men or to dark-skinned despite of whatever education they had. A sociologist Margaret Hunter writes in his book “ Race, gender and the politics of skin tone” that Mexican-Americans earned more money, got their one year education, had more united neighborhoods and better mental and physical health than dark-skinned people (African-Americans).
Other researchers Lance Hannon, Robert Defina and Sarah Bruch observed that black-skinned females were three times suspended at school then light-skinned females; African-American and Mexican-American counterparts. It is enough to say that a person’s health, education, success opportunity in this country largely depends on his/her skin-tone regardless of her/his racial background. Even dark-skinned people and light-skinned people have different resources and access. Colorism is deeply rooted in minds of these people which affects even others presence. And unfortunately, the color-bias starts in the home where even siblings and parents pay much heed to light-skinned children than dark-skinned.
It does not mean that this color bias can be terminated by starting from home level but this is the point where the talk should begin. Parents should celebrate each child’s day instead of praising one over the other. Islamic teachings should be followed as told and practiced by Last messenger of Allah Almighty in His Last sermon as the beloved one near Allah is who has more peity.hen we can have more confidence to face others, public speaking and intercultural and cross cultural dialogues.