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Battle of the Complexions Light-skinned vs dark-skinned African-American beauty 2012 

  

A nightclub event pitting light skinned, brown skinned and dark skinned African-American women against each other in a beauty contest of complexions has caused outraged. 

'Battle of the Complexions' contest held last night in St Louis has been accused of degrading women and promoting historical divisions. 

'This is the most debatable topic of the year, whats the sexiest skin complexion?? So ladies come out & lets settle this!!', organisers - video and music promotional company Mack TV and a local promoter calling himself Nelly Da'Celeb - said on a Facebook page for the event.

It goes on to encourage women to attend the contest held at The Venue, a club ironically located on Martin Luther King Drive, to 'cum out & rep either team-lite, team-caramel or team-dark'.

A promotional poster (pictured) and video promised an event to decide which complexion is the sexiest and features African-American women of different complexions labelled either 'Light-skin - Red Bone, 'Brown-skin - Caramel' or 'Dark-skin - Chocolate'.  

Adolphus Pruitt, president of the St. Louis branch of the NAACP, told NBC station KSDK that the event: 'raises the same sort of hair on the back of people's necks like me and some other folks.

After the event was highlighted earlier this week by music critic Kevin C. Johnson, for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the negative reaction imploded. 

Camille Houston, an African-American woman from St. Louis, told KSDK that the event was offensive because it perpetuates historical divisions in the African-American community stemming from skin tone.

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