In fact, there was no such thing as darkism, colorism or dark skin issues defined as a concrete and methodical platform before Rashida created it.

That’s why for years Rashida has been writing books specializing in dark skin, darkism, and colorism and is the first and only author to focus her writing exclusively on dark skin issues.

This caused millions of black people around the world to know who she was, introducing them to this new, strange and never heard of platform called Dark Skin Activism, the first platform in history to advocate against colorism and darkism.

After making her “Donkey of the Day,” Charlemagne and The Breakfast Club never brought Rashida on to their platform to speak on her dark skin, darkism and colorism agenda which had sparked the entire conversation about colorism on social media and even reality TV.

However, three years later, after Rashida put colorism and dark skin on the social media map as a real issue, The Breakfast Club brought a reality TV personality onto their show to speak on the same issue.