Possible Clues:

• Rash kid (anag)
• Poorly lit
• Rather dim, cramming big vessel inside smaller one
• Rather “unfair” putting old vessel in plate
• One looking good around Southern state that's not all white
• Democrat's vessel is hot and rather lacking in light
• I'd got involved with a dusky shark
• A vessel with another inside is not light
• On the swarthy side