Darling, if I've learned anything in my life and afterlife, it's that people will always find some reason to dislike other people no matter how superficial.
For example, I was born of parents with different skin tones, making me mixed race during a time when racial relations weren't the best. New Orleans being a port city tended to be more accepting given the high mixed population than either the North or South given how many different people ended up trading there, but mixed couples were typically socially unacceptable. Despite what some people might think, it wasn't the bigots of one particular race but from both that despised me: too dark for the lights and too light for the darks.
But my skin tone is something I can't help, that I have no control over, so why be proud of something that I had no influence on? Why not be proud of my accomplishments despite members of both halves of my heritage claiming I'd never amount to anything? Most of them didn't work their way up to become the premiere radio host of a major city, after all.
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For example, I was born of parents with different skin tones, making me mixed race during a time when racial relations weren't the best. New Orleans being a port city tended to be more accepting given the high mixed population than either the North or South given how many different people ended up trading there, but mixed couples were typically socially unacceptable. Despite what some people might think, it wasn't the bigots of one particular race but from both that despised me: too dark for the lights and too light for the darks.
But my skin tone is something I can't help, that I have no control over, so why be proud of something that I had no influence on? Why not be proud of my accomplishments despite members of both halves of my heritage claiming I'd never amount to anything? Most of them didn't work their way up to become the premiere radio host of a major city, after all.