Say it again!
Sadly, my older relatives are colorstruck like that. My greatgrandmother, Nana told me that my ex-boyfriend was too dark. So I gave the example of my cousin's boyfriend who she loves but the boy is BLUEblack. My Nana said, "Well Monique can get away with that, she's yellow...you are too dark, you need to find a lighter man." I was kinda upset, but I figured that that's how they grew up back in the day (she's 87), and she doesn't know any better. I asked her if she would rather have (hypothetically speaking) dark-skinned pretty babies or lighter ugly babies for grands...she said she'd rather have okay looking caramel babies, and they didn't need to be any darker than me!
HELLO, I ain't that dark!
I'm sorry, I've gone off on a tangent...but yeah this bugs me also. I have a coworker who only dates people of Latin descent because she says she wants a "pretty baby". Her ex-husband is Puerto Rican and although her son is gorgeous, she said that if she ever remarried, she wanted her future kids to come out "cute and favoring him".
