noodle

I hear what you're saying. I work with a mom who is really affected by her son's hyperpigmentation. She watches every day to see if he's getting any lighter. She keeps saying (quote from her), "He looks like one of those African babies, like a little monkey. I'm not that dark, he must have gotten it from his daddy, his daddy's much darker. He didn't get that from me!" It's strange, she's almost defensive. He's an adorable FLK. The darkness in his skin comes from a mitochondrial disorder. With all of this kid's issues, it's weird that she focuses on that. In my area, darker skin is somehow connected with lower income according to the perceptions that people have expressed to me in the last few years. I don't understand it. I'm pale as a ghost, my legs literally reflect the sunlight... did I miss the part where I'm supposed to be upper class or more desireable?

By the way... the picture in the lower right of the Queen Latifah layout, the one with the darkest skin? That's Serena Williams.

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