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You're The Wrong Color!
What do you do when you discover your family - your Black family - is deceitfully color-concious? The light-skin has gone straight to their heads, and their hearts!
Jeff is nice, good-looking, smart, protected. The painful brutality of not being accepted by anyone, Black or White, is not part of the world he lives in. All's right because he has never been required to challenge or question his comfort zone.
Then he meets Doug and Brad, through his sisters, Karen and Debbie. Two great easy-going young men Jeff would like to get to know better. Before he has a chance, both sisters have broken up with their boyfriends! What the heck happened so fast?
Jeff has no idea about how nasty life can be so when Doug confronts him with the truth he is knocked off balance and doesn't initially believe the charges being levelled against his family. They might be traditional, but bigoted? Against their own kind?
Still, this news awakens his spirit and he's left to make sense out of it all.
He struggles as he wonders how could he have lived so long and been so blind? How could he NOT have picked up on all the indications -- including those of his own grandparents? How could he have missed the real reason his cousin, Didi, moved so far away?
But now he's aware and it must be faced, even as he knows a confrontation will create huge waves. All he has to do is find out if he can summon courage - or just walk away and let life continue as it's always done. Is it really worth it? After all, drama doesn't always heal and people don't (or won't) always accept what they see in their own mirrors.
Open your eyes to what many still won't talk about - or acknowledge.
Jeff is nice, good-looking, smart, protected. The painful brutality of not being accepted by anyone, Black or White, is not part of the world he lives in. All's right because he has never been required to challenge or question his comfort zone.
Then he meets Doug and Brad, through his sisters, Karen and Debbie. Two great easy-going young men Jeff would like to get to know better. Before he has a chance, both sisters have broken up with their boyfriends! What the heck happened so fast?
Jeff has no idea about how nasty life can be so when Doug confronts him with the truth he is knocked off balance and doesn't initially believe the charges being levelled against his family. They might be traditional, but bigoted? Against their own kind?
Still, this news awakens his spirit and he's left to make sense out of it all.
He struggles as he wonders how could he have lived so long and been so blind? How could he NOT have picked up on all the indications -- including those of his own grandparents? How could he have missed the real reason his cousin, Didi, moved so far away?
But now he's aware and it must be faced, even as he knows a confrontation will create huge waves. All he has to do is find out if he can summon courage - or just walk away and let life continue as it's always done. Is it really worth it? After all, drama doesn't always heal and people don't (or won't) always accept what they see in their own mirrors.
Open your eyes to what many still won't talk about - or acknowledge.
91 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 24, 2013
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Sam Knight
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