Light skin gives me such privileges that my complaints are not worthy. I’m not “positive” enough. Not “black” enough. I’m not a “real” black person. Worst of all are the terrible choices – the possibility of losing connections to those I love, betraying them, those who have done terrible things but at the same time have had to survive within the context of racism. Whose side am I on?
-Toi Derricotte
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