I take issue with this line of research focused on dark children’s behavior by way of examining their character “strengths” and “weaknesses” because we live in a racist, sexist, Islamophobic, patriarchal, homophobic, transphobic, and xenophobic world where grit is not enough to fight these systems. Yes, it is needed, but to insist that dark children need, do not have, and can function on those characteristics alone is misleading, naïve, and dangerous.
