Hello,
I'm new to GC and i felt compelled to reply to your thread. I am brown-skinned and my older sister is dark-skinned. She experienced the same thing on more than one occassion.
People today still allow the color of skin to influence them.
I've had friends that hate themselves because they were dark, friends that believed they were better because they were light and other ridiculous mumbo jumbo.
Fortunately, I have always been around all types of people of different shades so I'm accepting. Even I as a brown-skinned woman have been put down. Yes, discrimination,ignorance, racism,etc. still exists.