Unwillingly passing, race card isn’t mine.
April Faye Weathers, Los Angeles, CA. I’m light skinned and have always felt self-conscious about my skin tone. Growing up, my white mom taught my...
I wish I was more white
Lynn P., Raleigh, NC. My mother is white and my father is black. I am light skinned and proper speaking but not white enough in...
You don’t look Latina, prove it.
Victoria Oliva Medford, MA As a light-skinned Latina born to a Guatemalan immigrant father and a mother of French-Canadian descent, I find myself searching for...
I can be both, or neither.
Donovan Holder, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. In South Florida, I am a chameleon. Mother is white, Dad is Jamaican. But my skin is the exact same...
You’re one of the good ones
Jennifer De Shields Philadelphia, PA I grew up in a very white town, and the parents of my white friends would marvel at my manners...
Light skinned people experience duel racism
Karen Duke Hyattsville, MD Light skinned black people experience the racism from within and outside our culture.
You’re black? You don’t sound black.
Marianne Scott Washington, DC At least strangers no longer blurt out “no, you aren’t black,” as they did for years. My skin is lighter than...
Called me white boy, I’m pissed.
Mario Latilleon Memphis, TN Being a light-skinned, articulate, and somewhat nerdy African-American boy can be a curse growing up in a poor black neighborhood in...
