I think this is a big problem in our community...
last week my coworkers complimented me and were joking with me. And I was laughing and said stop, you're making me blush and you know that's hard since I'm dark skinned lol...just a harmless joke.
She immediately moved to correct me...."you're not dark skinned
" then she went into this silly description of what I.....again of what
I should be identifying MYSELF as. I didn't bother to even memorize it but I''m sure it included dairy free creamer of some sort.
Like, if I see myself as dark skinned, let me do that. I am proud of my skin. You'd think I called myself ugly or something. "omg! wtf
honey don't say that... "
Let me identify with what I see in the mirror. As long as I'm not running around calling myself white, you shouldn't be moving to correct me