‘But you don’t seem Puerto Rican’

Lynn Delgado,
CO

“But you don’t seem Puerto Rican”- growing up and even now I have fairer skin than my Puerto Rican mother. My mom has darker skin, more of a brown sugar color skin tone while I have no melanin. I grew up looking whiter than the rest of both sides of my family, not to mention I would speak like a valley girl even though I’m from Colorado. I would get judged by my skin color and the way I talked.