Miss Dominica-Natural Hair Beauty Queen (Miss World 2013)

[malaise]

128. Decades ago we were discussing Garveyism in a classroom

Students were discussing race in their families. One young man said he was the surviving fraternal twin. He said both of them came down with a childhood disease at the same time. The mother insisted that his brother (the fair one) be sent to the private hospital and he was sent to the public hospital. As fate would have it the 'fair one' died'. What was worse was that his mother reminded him all his life that she wanted his brother to survive because life would be easier for him.

I had to dry my eyes that day in class. I could tell you stories for days about sisters pretending they weren't sisters because one 'could pass'.

A landlady in the US gave my oldest sister notice in the late 60s when my second sister arrived to study because the landlady never realized big sister had African ancestry - she thought she was Asian

Racism is a fucked up thing sis.