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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
When I was young, I sometimes wanted to be a little darker. While a lot of people hold lighter skin on a pedastol, and that's annoying to me, the reverse is also true sometimes. A lot of people would make assumptions of me, such as I was a light skinned stuck up beyotch with long hair (that's more true now than it was when I was a child  ), that I wasn't black enough, and I even had someone tell me God didn't keep me in the oven long enough. |
I've had similar experience. I'm quite content with how I am, don't get me wrong. I just find that it's frustrating that people cannot identify what part of the world I'm from or make comments that I find quite unnecessary. I'm always having to find that I have to explain to people here that A) I'm African B) No, I'm not mixed C) No, I'm not Indian, Hispanic, Arab, etc. D) Defend that I am, in fact, black. My sister is a few shades darker than me, and she used to get negative comments from her own people when she was a kid. It was hard for her because her sisters were lighter than her.