Melanin Drops: A POC Book

🗣 "Let Me Go Inside." COLORISM

Okay, this got me really hot today. So I heard that my great-aunt, who is light skin used to always tell her kids to not stay in the sun too long so they wouldn't get really dark.

Now she was a light woman like my other great aunts and my great grandmother because their grandma was Swedish. **If you didn't know if the mother is white and the father is black, you weren't a slave (based on your mother's race).** So I personally think she thought your value was in skin color. She knew outside slaves were dark and "had no value" so she wanted to instill in her kids the color of their skin is their value. (A/N: i know this made no sense but this really irritated my soul.)

Maybe she didn't know better either, I don't really know, I do know it's wrong. It's colorism and I HATE it. I want to tell her it's all the same race. "I'm light skin." "I'm brown skin." "I'm dark skin" Yeah you can be those things but don't forget you are black. NO skin color is better than the other. No person is better than the other. No matter what, we may not be treated equal but we are equal.

Colorism is a bigggg problem. Even just yesterday some girl in my class said she didn't like to be out in the sun because she didn't want to be darker. No, not because she didn't want skin cancer but because she didn't want to get darker.

I hear a lot of people say stuff like this. Just like people insisting they are light skin because they are slightly lighter than what a brown skin would look like. Even some people think that because you are lighter, you are more attractive. There is one boy at my school who insists he is "sexy" because of his skin color when he is literally alright. Even on SnapChat, he claimed he was sexier than dark skins because of his lighter complexion. I almost swiped up and told him off cause you know how I get but, I didn't feel like getting into it. Sike nah, I was afraid he was gonna get mad. I am a b**** at times.

It's instilled in us to think, the lighter the skin the better you are. Do yall know about the light skins (master's kids) being in the house and the dark skins outside? Definitely a huge example of colorism in our race. That definitely wasn't the first.

I can really really dig deep into this because so many things make me heated. That is the end though.

And I will end with a question ..

How do you feel about the whole light skins winning, or dark skins winning, or brown skins winning?

love,

black girl ki.

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