This article breaks my heart. White is just easier

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www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/brazils-colour-bind/article25779474/?service=mobile

The whole article is really really long. But I just read the first 6 paragraphs and hearing this woman prayed to god that her child would look white makes me so sad.

[bina]

iammalcolmx

[iammalcolmx]

(1) Everyone should visit Salvador, it's amazing. (2) yall know how I feel about that other shit. People stare and H and I when we are in Brazil. My White Brasilian stepmom it insists it's because he a foot taller than me. Yeah right lady........

[nsuhomer]

I deal with the (similar) American version of this every time I leave the house with my three girls. If another person asks my oldest daughter 'who her friend is?' (my middle girl), or asks me 'if they're all mine' while looking pointedly at middle daughter...