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I was raised in Nigeria, and my mother is white, but I never saw her as white, not until I came to America. She was just my mother. She didn't really have a color.

Americans have their issues with skin colour, even within the black community, with light and dark skin; it's crazy - but no one's oblivious to it.

I definitely think the fact that I come from a multicultural background, my mother living life in a white skin and having white skin privilege from the time I was little, I was aware of that.

My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.

My mother is black and my father is Filipino. I got the best of both worlds.

I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.

It is truly not fun to be the family that sticks out in an all-white community. On the other side, I have five brothers and sisters; we all look exactly the same, and we're very, very tight. The lessons about race were not pleasant, but there are things that I loved about my childhood.

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.