{"id":89,"date":"2020-03-23T17:05:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T21:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/projectcolorism\/files\/2020\/03\/Parisprojectpc.jpg"},"modified":"2020-04-11T20:01:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T00:01:13","slug":"parisprojectpc","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/projectcolorism\/stories-of-pc\/parisprojectpc\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris"},"author":19727,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-89","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry","entry"],"description":{"rendered":"

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Paris is \u201cjust another boy from the island that\u2019s into the arts and loves cocoa butter.\u201d He recalled the first time he became aware of the color of his skin: \u201cI believe I was a young child in Haiti\u00ad, Port-Au-Prince to be exact\u2013the city. As kids we used to play and I remember one time while playing I hurt my cousin, who is a bit darker than me, then I remember my aunt saying \u201cC\u2019mon you\u2019re darker than him, you can take it, that little pain is nothing to you.\u201d I think that\u2019s the first time I realized I\u2019m light skin. But I also wanna add I remember coming to the U.S., and when I first came here, that\u2019s when I fully recognized it. Because I would be looking at White people and then, obviously me, and I realized that I look completely different. While I was in Haiti, I was just, to me, just another Black person, light skin, dark skin, but another Black person. When I came here, I realized I was a Black man.\u201d \u201cThe strategy that I think works best\u2013and it\u2019s not even a strategy\u2013 I think that starting with us that are older, adults, we have to teach each member of, let\u2019s say the Black community, that they are beautiful whether you\u2019re dark skin or light skin, and that we are all part of a team, the same team. The first thing would be to stop diving ourselves in terms of groups, which is the hardest thing, and then to erase that perception: \u2018you\u2019re this light, you\u2019re this dark, you are different and you handle things different,\u2019 because at the end of the day, we all go through the same thing. Especially when it comes to black community, people of color in general, it\u2019s more like a divide and conquer, and as long as someone\u2019s not affected, nobody actually speaks up or tries to make things better. But, if it\u2019s affecting one group and you stay silent, eventually it might get to you and nobody will be able to speak up for you. But honestly though, like I said, I do think it starts with teaching the young generation that they are beautiful and instilling that confidence in them. Because as a kid, you don\u2019t know what\u2019s going until somebody points it out to you, but at that time it becomes too late because you don\u2019t have the tools needed to prepare for that situation.\u201d<\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"

Paris is \u201cjust another boy from the island that\u2019s into the arts and loves cocoa butter.\u201d He recalled the first time he became aware of…<\/p>\n

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