I love this! I'm a very light skinned, blue eyed woman with a Black father, so I'm a woman of colour, without much colour. Dark skinned men have chased me for years.

I've been envied and hated for my skin tone. Coloourism, to me is incidious and stems from how our people were treated. To look white, to have so called good hair, all as a means of survivial of trying to get by in an unkind world. The sick part of it is we now do it to each other! That makes me sad.

I've seen beautiful men and women of every shade. Your friend was wrong about the dark-skinned boy. If you thought he was beautiful, he was. Much love to you.