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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm going to guess that the folks designing the website did think they were including a black child. And since I have the same skin color and hair texture as the child on the website and I am African-American, I can see why they would think that.

You're pointing at the more nuanced issue of color and the need to respect the ways in which people are excluded not just based on race, but on color (e.g., favoring lighter persons within different races). I think it's obvious that they sat down and said let's pick a really diverse group of kids for the website. Your complaint, it seems to me, is that the black child needs to be brown, rather than lighter in complexion.

Aren't there only 4 pictures on the website: a white child, a (presumably) Latina child, an Asian child, and a Black child? I'm not ignoring the reality that colorism absolutely exists and is something folks need to be open and honest about. I just don't think this particular situation reasonably leads to the conclusions some folks seem to be drawing.[/quote]

Yes, I think she is saying the kid isn't "black enough".  Yikes. [/quote]

Yes, "Yikes"!.... unfortunately this may be a knee jerk kind of reaction to many centuries of black people who were not "white enough" and the consequences of this perceived lack. It was a real thing for those who worked the fields and those who worked the houses to be differentiated by how fair the skin was. The lighter the better is the implication.
But you say. 'black is black right?'. If only it were that simple.  Black is black increasingly[i] is [/i]the case but the vestiges of this kind of intra-racial separation live on. And the subtle (or not so subtle) messages that pictures like the CM website send are still being heard...we don't have you here and we don't see you here. 
Too much reading in?...maybe...but it all depends on the message reader.  [/quote]

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