Day 1, pre-sun, a Mexican guy said to me - I like your color - and pointed to the skin on his arm.
And here I've been, non-stop, taking in their skin color. The browns and whites, the red undertones of the indigenous Americans. Sunset-ish.
Where are you from? Acknowledging that my skin color doesn't fit the place and that he noticed.
There's honesty in the simplicity of his statement. Why stifle that with race-censored PC-ness? In the US people would be embarrassed to bring up your skin color even in a compliment. How silly.
And here I've been, non-stop, taking in their skin color. The browns and whites, the red undertones of the indigenous Americans. Sunset-ish.
Where are you from? Acknowledging that my skin color doesn't fit the place and that he noticed.
There's honesty in the simplicity of his statement. Why stifle that with race-censored PC-ness? In the US people would be embarrassed to bring up your skin color even in a compliment. How silly.
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