There seems to be no authoritative etymology to explain its origins. Black vernacular has a whole bucket of these idioms for those on the light to dark spectrum of skin shade. I was eleven in when my parents yanked me from a comfortable, mostly black, middle-class neighborhood school in Detroit and placed me in an almost-all-white academic environment miles away from my home. I doubt there were ten students of color in my new school, but I bonded with a group of seventh grade white girls who seemed unfazed by my ethnicity. My skin shade was similar to one they might acquire after a long day at the beach. With hugs and tears, we commiserated together after hearing President Kennedy had been shot. They invited me into their circle during lunch breaks. There were more black students in my high school — but on any given day I could still walk through a crowded hallway without seeing another pupil of color. And because of my tendency to socialize more interracially than many in my ethnic group, I was subjected to some good-natured teasing on the long bus rides we took to and from our homes each weekday.


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