Dear Brown Skin Girl,
Growing up I felt like a beautiful princess inside the walls of our house.
I did not know there was a difference between light or dark.
In school I learned I was not white, with straight blonde hair and light eyes so the boys liked me for other things, I was good at sports and I had dope sneakers.
In hight school this continues and I was considered "alright" for others too dark often ugly.
The safety of our home was so different from the world I stepped out in everyday. My mother is a short beautiful dark skin woman my father is a tall light skin man. Me and my siblings shade varies from dark to light. My grandmother is light skin woman with 2c hair and my grandfather was a big dark skin muscular man. Colorism did not show its ugly face until I went out in this world.
So as I look out to my cousins who are brownskin like me, my heart begins to weep for them cause I know what they are about to go through.
Is this why I a lot of the brown women will just accept any man who gives them a little time cause she still carries the scars of that 12 year old girl and believes she is not good enough.
I am a dark skin woman and I love the skin I am in, I am a confident woman I have my flaws which I am learning to accept and if I want it changed I put in work to get to the root of that which bothers me. I know my worth I don't just let any man in my world not to be mistaken for hard or not needing a man cause that is also not the casse. But I am a happy individual who chose to enjoy life, grow and check of my goals.
And one of my goals is to speak to you the brown skin girl, it is my friend it is my sweetheart niece Amberly-Fae or my future daughter. Never ever question your worth and your beauty and never put either of these things in the hands of another human being cause no one on this earth should have that power over you. We were created in his image so our worth is already determined by the most high.
