Martin Lawrence Addresses Ari Lennox’s Viral Criticism Of "Martin"

Ari Lennox might need some counseling. The singer and Internet personality challenged the Martin sitcom for its colorism against Tichina Arnold’s character Pam.

Lennox claimed that as a “chocolate girl” she had been put in a box where dark skin meant non-attractive, even ugly.

But Martin Lawrence himself cleared the air and showed that he just wanted to tell the best jokes. But is that alright? He argued that in the Foundational Black American (FBA) community, the consideration of skin color is always a source of good humor and fun.

Is this okay, though? It’s really for the extremes. Light-skinned FBA and dark-skinned FBA receive the worst treatment. They are often called “light bright” and “midnight,” respectively. For Lawrence to claim that he was just trying to find the right jokes for the moment, always disregarding the character’s darker features as contrasted with the character Gina’s fair complexion, is absurd.

People should remember that blacks are often portrayed as what their skin color is. Light-skinned usually means good natured, kind-hearted, and mirthful. Dark skin usually suggests conniving, backstabbing, low-grade.

And this is not coming from white people, this stays in the black community.

Lennox might need to see a therapist to unwind all the damage she takes. Especially since she is gorgeous as a dark-skinned woman. That’s another secret, too. Light-skinned women can be marginal or even hideous in the face.

The singer is busting down a door few people would be even afraid to turn the knob. By highlighting one of the most popular sitcoms of all time, she has brought to the light the reality of colorism amongst FBA.

There is a serious problem that must be addressed in the idea of blacks hating other black skin colors. It’s all a bio-chemical exchange which occurs. Some people may have lighter parents or at least one and come out darker. Vice versa is true as well. With all the problems in the world, this should be pushed to the curb like garbage bins.

For Lennox to state this is an act of courage. Even Arnold dispelled, however, the notion that the jokes stood as “ill intent.” Is this true, though?

In the test case for light is right or white is right, the babydoll test proved that young black girls favored the white girl babydolls over the darker hued babydolls. This innocent hatred is so prevalent in the culture, it’s tough to even keep up with all of it. But Lennox fights on anyway.

She has championed the idea that all races can be beautiful and that within her own, dark skinned blacks can be just as attractive.

For all the times that people are called out of their name to reference their skin color in the black sphere, it is sad because it’s all about a chemical exchange. And just because a person is either light or dark, and beautiful physically, their souls can be ugly. Their minds can be corrupt.

While the stars of the show hold there was no “malicious intent” or any kind of damning of people of darker hues, namely women, there is still a dearth of dark skin women who win beauty pageants. Few dark-skinned women get roles that accentuate their sex appeal.

To take into account the vision of a playing field where people are accepted based on their intellect and not how they can pass the brown paper bag test, the world would have to shift.

In order for that to happen, men and women will have to adjust their attitudes and refrain from even light-hearted jokes. It would mean that everyone valued the thing that thinks and remember that colorism is a blight on the spirit.