ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN

Pretty privilege. We have all heard about it but not all of us have been in a privileged position to experience the full pleasures of it. I for one have yet to experience it but that's how life is. 

I remember when l was a child my mother would always tell me that people would be shocked whenever they would see me with her or whenever she introduces me as her daughter. All because it was seen as taboo for a lighter skinned woman to give birth to a dark skinned child.

That manifested itself throughout my life whether from friendships or awards or anything that was seen as an achievement. I had a best friend in first grade and she was lighter skinned, as what the natives call yellowbone. We were topdeck. dark and light.