FREE: Dear America, Color Me Dark

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The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, The Great Migration North

Chicago, Illinois, 1919

January 2, 1919

Some people are so color struck. They think being light-skinned is better than being dark! Mama says that's nonsense and I think so, too. I love it when Mama tells about her grandmother, Lizzie Palmer. She was a slave. After the war, because she was so light-skinned many people thought she was white. But when people asked Lizzie Palmer if she was white, she'd always answer, "No, color me dark."

Daddy won't stand for color talk, either. He says a Colored family is like a beautiful bouquet of flowers--all different colors, sizes, and shapes. But each one beautiful in his or her own way. We only need to look at Daddy's side of the family to see that he's telling us the truth. The Love family is just like the bouquet Daddy described.