I'm always amazed, even now, at how much stock some of us still put in skin tones.
Over the summer, I was at a family wedding when a cousin I hadn't seen in about 15 years was discussing various family members--and their skin tones! Maybe I'm naive, but I had never thought about my uncles and aunts in terms of who was the darkest and lightest. But, apparently she had! She also told me and my sister how "lucky" we were to have been born with green and hazel eyes.
