I don't think I've experienced much colorism from within the community.
Light Black people describe me as dark and dark Black people describe me as light, but I suppose my complexion is too in the middle to draw any bias from either side.
I was handed a lightening cream from a mixed Latina, though.
I can get very dark in the summer and she assumed that when I am lighter, it is due to using creams.
When she realized that wasn't the case, she tried to encourage me to use the cream. Her attitude was kinda of, if this is your normal complexion, imagine how beautiful you can be.

I said nothing other than no thank you, but felt that I needed to confront her mentality after I babysat her son and saw she was rubbing off on him.
Her son turned over my arm one day and said, "I like you like this," preferring the lighter hue of my inner arm.
It was lighter than his skin.
If that is not the foundation of self-hate, I don't know what is.
His mom didn't see it, though.
I began to see more and more how my color could affect my life at my last job in retail.
A bunch of Black people could say something, but some customers didn't see it as credible until a White person came over and confirmed.
Some customers seemed scared to say hi to me. I saw a few pocket clinchers and the usual.
But what caught me off guard was how some customers were very quick to get aggressive with me, I suppose because they expected me to get aggressive with them or because they just saw me as aggressive to begin with.
If I shook my head, I was seen as yelling.
One women was telling her friend who was standing right next to her to look at how "that girl" was yelling at her. Her friend swiveled her neck all around to see who had such audacity, lol.
It was something coworkers and I would joke about, but it became a serious issue for me when some customers reported me for attitude.
Lucky for me there was always another coworker around who could vouch that I have not once screamed at or berated a customer.
But that could have impacted my job.
And sure they had confirmation that I didn't yell, but I'm sure that after a while they would have wondered why is she getting the complaints and not the others? Is there a vibe she's giving off?
They weren't around to see how a person's attitude would change on a dime when the race they were talking to changed.
I never experienced racism from my supervisors, but it was still clear that racism could stop my advancement and I'm still fuming about that.