You Sound Like a White Girl

When I was about eight, I was playing in a solo color with some friends from school when an indigenous girl approached us to sell candy. One of the light-skinned girls started taunting her, saying she's not like Kaka. The idea comes from a time during the colonial period where there was a caste system and the only way that you could have a better life was literally to marry someone who was lighter skin than you. These ideas come from a very real place of survival and of trying to survive under this very oppressive times. We haven't yet recognized that we're still living under that rule.

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