When you read the language of Title VII, it prohibits discrimination based on race. It as well bans discrimination based on colour. Most people on analysis the Act see this and think that Congress went a bit overboard in dealing with racial discrimination. That but has not been the case. A number of court cases have come up in recent years where the issue of discrimination based on "colour" has been alleged within a racial group. For instance a cosmetics company hiring African-American models with light skin coloration, and not hiring those with much darker skin. This type of issue has become known as 'colorism