Dear West Indians, Hello: YOU ARE BLACK!

In fact,

Many Eastern Indians are very black in complexion too.

[size=32px][color=rgb(34, 34, 34)]Growing Up Dark-Skinned in a Color-Conscious India[/color][/size]

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http://everydayfeminism.com/2014/06/dark...-in-india/

[size=12pt]On the outside, India might be a country of homogeneously brown people, but on the inside, people fall within a broad color range – from dark brown to almost white. Unfortunately, this diversity in skin color has created a hierarchy of beauty – a hierarchy that tells you that the light-skinned people are the epitome of beauty, while the dark-skinned people fall at the bottom.

I was unaware of this until I was in the sixth grade when I found out that my dark skin could put me in a tough spot and stunt my self-esteem.

My light-skinned classmates ridiculed the color of my skin. One of them called me “black paint.” I pretended I didn’t hear him and walked away.

In the ninth grade, when I was at a friend’s house along with some other friends, one of them refused to drink coffee when offered and instead pointed at me and said, “I don’t want to drink coffee because I don’t want to look like her.”

I didn’t understand what it meant until another friend replied to him, “You don’t get dark by drinking coffee.”[/size]













[size=14pt]All of these people are called Indian by ethnicity, but are clearly black people. [/size]

So when West Indians deny being black,

When they say: "I'm not block",

They're only saying it out of color consciousness.