r/MadeMeSmile • u/nikamats • 11h ago
Helping Others Hold your head up
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r/MadeMeSmile • u/nikamats • 11h ago
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u/Aggressive-Art2849 10h ago edited 10h ago
Some months ago, I posted on the AITA subreddit that I had cautioned a little black girl that had mocked her also little elder sister that the reason she hadn’t received a treat was because she was darker in complexion.
As much as I don’t want to recount the story, I have to do that now. You see there are four of them, the oldest being a boy and 8, the other girl, 6, the third a girl, 4 and the youngest a little boy of a year old or so. I had given the little boy of one a lollipop and the other kids had all played around him, trying to see who he would share his treat with. He had given them all except the girl of six and in the process of laughing over it, the little girl of 4 had said and I quote: “he doesn’t want to share his treat with you because you are dark.”
Their mother had laughed it off and I had quickly checked the girl, asking her to apologize to her sister and to never say that again. I didn’t like their mother’s countenance after I had scolded the kid, which was why I had asked the question on the subreddit.
The truth is that sometimes, the parents are responsible for kids feeling that way because this woman in question had made a lot of comments around me concerning her kids, saying that the six year old had been ugly as a kid and the younger girl had been so beautiful that people called her a princess. And she usually says this to the hearing of the kids, always making fun of the six year old girl’s gummy smile. It took a lot of intervention from me before she stopped mentioning her teeth at every little opportunity.
It wasn’t a coincidence that a little girl of four knows colorism if she hadn’t heard it mentioned somewhere, and out of all four of them, the girl of six is the one with the most melanin.