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  • The suspect was described as a lightskinned black or Hispanic male, approximately 5 feet 5 inches tall, with a medium build.

    East Brunswick Sentinel 2010

  • Too bad, as I've said before (but it bears repeating) that neither of the people in question are lightskinned Canadians surnamed "Martin." posted by Dr. Dawg at 6: 10 PM

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • Too bad, as I've said before but it bears repeating that neither of the people in question are lightskinned Canadians surnamed "Martin." posted by Dr.

    Abdelrazik: "It's like Kafka, isn't it?" 2009

  • I try to understand, and I write women all the time; but I try not to make them men with breasts or, for that matter, talking sex-dolls, any more than my white characters are just lightskinned blacks.

    Liar Gets a New Cover Editorial Anonymous 2009

  • Abruptly the door to the cubicle opened, and a burly young man in a white lab coat and cord trousers, a lightskinned black man in his late twenties or early thirties, with deepset ironic eyes, stepped inside.

    *BD* 11 1 86 2005

  • Abruptly the door to the cubicle opened, and a burly young man in a white lab coat and cord trousers, a lightskinned black man in his late twenties or early thirties, with deepset ironic eyes, stepped inside.

    *BD* 11 1 86 2005

  • Abruptly the door to the cubicle opened, and a burly young man in a white lab coat and cord trousers, a lightskinned black man in his late twenties or early thirties, with deepset ironic eyes, stepped inside.

    *BD* 11 1 86 2005

  • For example, human skin color is extremely mutable even over a few centuries, such as American or southern African blacks becoming lightskinned or Sudanese Arabs becoming darkskinned.

    Lean Left » Blog Archive » Quote of the Day 2005

  • The more common word out here is "gabacho" and is used for about every non-Spanish-speaking, lightskinned foreigner.

    ....that they call themselves that.... 2002

  • The more common word out here is "gabacho" and is used for about every non-Spanish-speaking, lightskinned foreigner.

    ....that they call themselves that.... 2002

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