Light Skin vs. Dark Skin

Ohio: Club Promoters decide to take the trending topic to the clubs

Discrimination and privilege isn't manifested between races, but within races as well. Think of your own race, and think of the hierarchies within your race based on skin tone, citizenship, "authenticity"...
You don't have to be black to relate to what I am saying in this post. Competition exists WITHIN races, WITHIN genders, WITHIN any social marker. But blackness is used as an example due to the recent events mentioned.....

If you're on Twitter, you've heard of the hashtag/trending topic #TeamLightSkinned and #TeamDarkSkinned. Although Twitter is known for its humourous trending topics, there is a far more cultural, political and historical context to the skin tones of the black community that makes it offensive. It is worse when this is taken beyond Twitter, and into the real lives of real black people.

Behind the anonymity of Twitter and other social networking sites, people will tweet anything, without the fear of getting caught, without personal responsibility and without the concern that their tweets reflect on their own self-worth.

Aside from the controversy from the event pictured above in Ohio, there was another one last month:

Black women labelled light or dark skinned were put into competition. How is this judged exactly? ... Are black women who are light seen as more attractive so they may win the competition? How black women who are dark skinned seen as more "authentic" so that is their chance?
How do you even bring yourself to rate black women based on their skin tones. Do black women not have more value than this?--- Where is the respect?

How you define your identity is not just through how you view yourself. It is a reflection of others, practices, institutions etc. If you are black and you took part in this trending topic on Twitter, how do you identify your blackness?

During the slavery days, "mullattos" were given more privileges for having a skin one "closer" to Whites. Perhaps slavery is over... but isn't it clear that racial privilege a race still exists?