And then burst out laughing, hard enough she doubled over. "Oh goddess," she wheezed. "I'm the first Black...oh probably the first not-white person you've ever met. Oh goddess."
Sorry, not sorry, Henry, but she totally got to laugh at you.
"Okay, okay, hang on, lemme catch my breath," she said, flapping a hand at him. "So. Okay. No. I was born with this color skin. Everybody in...uh, you're from--" nope, did not remember the name "--has skin roughly around your color. Well, when you move away from where you are, and go to distant lands, err, across the seas and stuff, you find people with other skin colors."
And other ethnographic differences, but she wasn't going into that right now. "I actually have very, very light-colored skin for my, uh, people. They get much darker than I do." Were we going to explain being mixed race? Absolutely not!
She was going to let him know his question was rude as hell, but she figured she'd give him a second to wrap his head around this first.
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And then burst out laughing, hard enough she doubled over. "Oh goddess," she wheezed. "I'm the first Black...oh probably the first not-white person you've ever met. Oh goddess."
Sorry, not sorry, Henry, but she totally got to laugh at you.
"Okay, okay, hang on, lemme catch my breath," she said, flapping a hand at him. "So. Okay. No. I was born with this color skin. Everybody in...uh, you're from--" nope, did not remember the name "--has skin roughly around your color. Well, when you move away from where you are, and go to distant lands, err, across the seas and stuff, you find people with other skin colors."
And other ethnographic differences, but she wasn't going into that right now. "I actually have very, very light-colored skin for my, uh, people. They get much darker than I do." Were we going to explain being mixed race? Absolutely not!
She was going to let him know his question was rude as hell, but she figured she'd give him a second to wrap his head around this first.