Too black to be white and too white to be black, it's sad really. My mother is fully of Jamaican descent but she's very light skinned to the point people don't think she's black but Mediterranean. She used to tell me when she was going to school in the 70s she used to put a thick layer of cream on and leave it there so the kids thought she was white! (I now realise this is essentially 'white face' lol)
Sort of unrelated; There, especially in America not so much here, is a really sad remnants of the slavery days where within black communities where light skinned blacks look less favourably on the darker skinned ones and due to that there is a multimillion dollar industry of people using skin lightening cream, similar to what happens in Asia. The funny thing, to me, is that it doesn't matter how fair you are if someone of Meghan's complexion walked up to a KKK rally they're not going to say she's white or be polite and say she's mixed.
