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My dad is a Negro. Skin tone: coffee. He had me with a white woman, which makes me a mulatto. Skin tone: coffee with milk. If I have a child with a white woman, the child will be classified as a quadroon. Skin tone: 3 Musketeers nougat. If that child grows up and falls in love with a white person and they decide to have a baby, my grandchild will be called an octoroon. Skin tone: faded khakis. When they look at their hands, that child will probably see something very different from what I do now. Say that one-eighth black person also has a child with a white person. My great-grandchild will be ...more
A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir
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