Obviously, I’m white and ignorant.
My daughter and I have been reading Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o, which is a children’s book about a girl’s frustrations with her dark skin and learning acceptance of herself. (Great book.)
Sulwe’s family are all have very different skin tones. Sulwe is very dark but her sister is much lighter. Is that common for full siblings or artistic license for the story? As a white person, I have absolutely no basis for comparison.
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Oh yeah. My mom is really light skinned and my father really dark. My sister is lightskinned and I’m brownskinned. Its not really skin colour more a varying degree of brownness if you catch my drift. My sister and half brother used to tease me all the time because I was the only brown skinned one in the family. My brother used to joke that I was adopted lmao. But yeah, it happens
Do you mean skin tones? Of course man lol. Example-My best friends growing up were Jamaican twins, one was dark black, the other was light skinned with green eyes.
Yes. I went to elementary school with fraternal twin girls; one was strawberry blond/green eyed and pale, the other was olive skinned, dark haired/brown eyes.
Children, especially mixed children, can be different shades. Most black and a substantial portion of white people (those that are more than 2nd or 3rd generation, at least) in America are (typically) unacknowledged mixed race.
As a white person, I suggest watching the masterful film, “The Human Stain” with Sir Anthony Hopkins as it is a good jumping off point for this topic.
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