Erica’s Reviews > My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children > Status Update

the getting blacker in the sun comment is something ingrained through racism that we as darker skinned people adopted. my mother also said it to me as a child. I was always outside and she would remark "you are going to get darker!" i was just dumb or smart enough to reply. " I like my skin when it gets darker!"