レイチェルロイさんのインスタグラム写真 - (レイチェルロイInstagram)「I have always been aware of the color of my skin, from the time I was born. My mother was white, my dolls were white, most of the people in my church, parents’ work, tv shows, just life in general were white. I grew up with many rich cultures around me, Samoan, Filipino, Black; yet the majority out in the world was white. It shocks me when people say they don’t see color. My father, an immigrant from India, taught me to work harder than all of my American counterparts, to be nicer to be more polite to be more friendly to be more presentable, to be well dressed, to be smarter, to work harder. I was expected to adapt to what he felt was the American way of life, and excel at it, all while having curry 3 times a day and being raised with strong Indian values. Those are all great things for a kid to achieve, yes. But I always knew he wanted me to be those things because of the color of my skin. This is something you just feel, you just know. I must be better, just to be accepted as average. The issues of race has many buried layers. Then throw in being a female & it is a whole other depth. I know I am not the only child to have felt this way growing up. I share this story so that those of you that say, I don’t see color, can start to understand that it erases part of who a human is. See color, see who someone is, just know that those lives are just as valuable, as the lives of white children. I share this for the children who feel this now. We love you & we see you & we are you.❤️」10月30日 0時39分