It's not as obvious as in the 20th century, but it still surfaces. For example, in Margaret Hunter's The Persistent Problem of Colorism: Skin Tone, Status, and Inequality, she really analyzed what colorism means in different ethnicities. With African Americans, Hunter asserts, “lighter-skinned people of color enjoy substantial privileges that are still inaccessible to their darker-skinned brothers and sisters. In fact, light-skinned people earn more money, complete more years of schooling, live in better neighborhoods, and marry higher-status people than darker-skinned people of the same race or origin. ethnic (Hunter 237). Hunter goes on to explain in more depth how colorism works and what it is, as well as the stereotypes that come with it. For example, many people think that colorism is just a “black or Latino problem” when it all started with white people and people of similar color (Hunter 238). As an African American myself and falling into the “darker skin” category, I have always struggled since a young age. I always noticed that other girls were like me, but in a lighter tone, but that never changed the way I viewed them and it was never really evident when I was young. Things started to change when I was in middle school and high school. I noticed a difference in the way men looked at darker-toned African American women. There was already a problem with