So you may of heard about this “party” that was to be held in Detroit. All light skinned women would get in free. The black blogisphere was buzzing about it. Well after a week of internet backlash the promoter is canceling the event.

A local DJ and party promoter retreated Thursday from a plan to sponsor a bash that would let “light-skinned” black women into a downtown club for free.

But the “Light Skin Libra Birthday Bash” at Club APT on Woodward Avenue turned out to be a bashing — of promoter Ulysses “DJ Lish” Barnes after word of the unusual party spread on the Internet.

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