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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK I’m the outlier here but I don’t really like when kids talk about somebody having light skin or dark skin.  Because that’s all relative to the white person.  Relative to a white person I have dark skin, but relative to a black person I have light skin.  So I don’t like describing people in terms of light or dark because that’s a relative term and it’s relative to favor white people.  I think talking in terms of lighter and darker is undesirable.  And it is separate and distinct from talking in terms of skin color like tan, white, etc. if my biracial child were to talk about somebody being light skin or dark skinned I would correct it. I don’t think it’s polite to say that x child is dark. All that does is ostracize a child.  I would just cost correct and say everyone looks different and that’s just how the world is. We may look different from each other outside but we are all equal and no one is better than anyone else. [/quote]
Wtf? Skin colors are literally lighter or darker. If you don’t think it’s polite to call a person dark-skinned it’s because you think something is wrong with dark skin. I would be so insulted if someone described one child as white and the other as “that child over there”. [/quote]

Yes but lighter or darker is relative.  Those are not absolute terms. A person with brown skin can be light skinned compared to a person with darker skin. I don’t teach my kids to say “he has dark skin” because that’s a relative term and the “spectrum” is based on white people. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with darker skin but I’m not ignorant of ongoing prejudice against dark skin that exists in America and also across other cultures. If someone is Black, we say they are Black. We don’t tiptoe around it like it’s an insult. My kids are part Black with a capital B. [/quote]

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