You don't have to come from Africa to have dark skin. You can come from any part of the world and be born with a darker shade of skin.
Instead of demonizing dark skin. Understand the beauty in color.
Reblogging this for the message and also for people who don't know what actual dark skin is. When a writer writes a character as having "dark skin" this is what they are talking about. Every single one of these women are beautiful.