Does colorism set the standard for how racism is viewed?

I think it may.

Think about it like this. When dark skinned blacks point out how light skinned blacks (and biracials which I will just consider light skinned for now) are colorist towards darker skinned blacks, often the light skinned black will talk about how they are mistreated and will be dismissed by the dark skinned blacks.

The relations between different shades of the same race could in fact be the perfect example of why race relations between different races are so bad. Neither side is listen and neither side is working on the problem.

Dark skinned blacks do discriminate towards light skinned blacks. Light skinned blacks do in fact discriminate towards dark sinned blacks. Both are so busy proving how they are the victim, neither realize that they could fix the problem by stop contributing to the problem.

Both sides need to understand what they are doing or saying to each other that is causing the divide to continue. It shouldn't even be a problem in the black community.

Yes, its easy to blame slavery for the divide. But as many have said, it is only an explanation for how it started, not for why blacks are still letting colorism be a problem today.

You can't blame white people for colorism as most don't even know about the damn problem. As far as they are concerned black is black no matter how light or dark you are.

But dark skinned blacks feel they are the only victims. Because they feel that light skinned blacks have it easier, they mistreat those who are light skinned due to percieved colorism. As a result, the light skinned black either fights back or to compensate for low view of self, they make themselves feel superior. What does this end up resulting in? Just confirming the darker skinned black person's belief about light skinned blacks. So you see, the circle doesn't end!

And when you step back and see how both parties seem to only keep the problem alive rather than to stop and listen to each other and think about solutions, one can't help but wonder if this is part of the reason whites and blacks cannot get along.

Whites assume the worst about blacks, which causes blacks to fight back or mistrust whites and safeguard against mass majority racism that whites tend to have. Whites in return assume blacks must be racist. So the circle never ends. Neither side listens to the other and the problem goes unsolved.

So this actually leaves one question in mind. Why is it so hard for people to just shut up and listen and to rationally find solutions?