Please please please love on dark skinned children. Emphasize how beautiful they are and show them images of people that look like them!
Kids in school can be so cruel
hot take: having 18+ friends as a teenager is a good thing ! having older friends is a way to get advice from someone who's not an authoritative figure like a parent or teacher. as long as nothing romantic/sexual goes on, having older friends is fine
When my Caribbean manners come out and I walk pass and say good morning/afternoon/evening/night and dese stinkin dutty rude people dem don’t say it back or even acknowledge that I said it