Taliah Waajid
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I think I was 16 and my girlfriend told me, she said, what did she say?
Something we were talking about.
She said, well, you know, being dark skin is not good.
I said, who said that?
I didn't, that was the first time I ever heard that.
I'll never forget that.
And I was like, okay, whatever.
You know, never really hit me any type of way because I didn't believe it because I was already armored up.
I was armored up already, so you can't make me believe that, you know?
So I'm like, okay, if that's what you think.
I think it happens when you're young.
I think it happens when you're young.
And I did that with my children.
Because I know how positively it affected me is that I made sure that I didn't mingle them with any other races in school until they were in, I think, the sixth grade is when I let them, you know.
But while they were young, young, they were all blackity, blackity, black.