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What it took to finally confront my family about race and politics – The Guardian

November 27, 2018 SArah Menkedick
Illustration: Grace Helmer

Illustration: Grace Helmer

My four-year-old daughter has recently started to notice skin color. “Mommy,” she points out when we take a shower, “your skin is white, and my skin is brown, and Papi’s skin is brown!” With a four-year-old’s mania for classification, she lines up our arms in order of deepening darkness. She counts: “Two browns, and one white!”

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