Beautiful??
"I don't want to be dark skinned,I want to look like you auntie nice." that remark got me off-guard. Where had she gotten that kind of reasoning? Had I behaved in a manner to make her think she was not beautiful? I was heartbroken and concerned. So I decided to try and plant a new seed in her mind in regard to beauty and complexion. I hugged her and and asked to come help me bathe her cousin. Enthusiastically she followed me to the bathroom. "Why do want to look like me? " I asked her as we bathed the baby. "Watu wa black si beautiful auntie "(dark skinned people are not beautiful auntie). "Black is beautiful sweetheart, you always say my baby is beautiful and he has a similar complexion to you, don't you think you are beautiful? " I asked her smiling at her... We held our conversation until we were done bathing and dressing the baby. I then took a laptop and opened a photo gallery of black girls her age and I was fortunate enoug