What Light Girls Can Teach Us About Beauty

Amber Rose, who is half white and half African descent, opened up about her family for the documentary. She explained how some of her Creole family members refused to attend her wedding to rapper Wiz Khalifa because of his darker skin tone. In their minds, dark skin is inferior.

"With my family — they feel like they're more superior, or better than an African American, because we're Creole and we have culture," she said. "I'm angry that my family is like that and they want to 'pass' so bad that they raised my mom and my uncles and my aunts to not fully know their culture."

Racial passing — identifying as another race based on skin tone — is something that has been occurring in the black culture for centuries. Children of mixed race would leave their families to live an ulterior lifestyle as white. Amber's statements went viral across Twitter among hip-hop fans. She and Wiz have split since their 2013 wedding, but she stays in the news with her racy bikini photos.