@fulanigirl@kat_kime I was born into a family obsessed with elitism, status, wealth, and power at any cost. An obsession that permanently estranged us.
As late as 2016 my brown bag club father, aunt, and first cousin dismissed my experiences of having my paternity questioned because of my much darker skin, and bizarrely claimed colorism doesn't exist in Washington DC Black culture, that it might rarely happen elsewhere.
That level of denial is virtually pandemic among the most educated and affluent of the Diaspora.