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I think Maleeka is being ridiculed about her skin tone because they were probably not comfortable around,maybe they were jealous because their skin tone is not really black or white.I think slavery is the bas

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with the skin they were in. A bully usually has their own insecurities that they are dealing 

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I think Mellllleka is a god

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i think that meleeka

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why can't people tell her what they see that's how you know they just to be

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We know she might not been the only African  American in the school. But they might pick on her because she was the darkest kid in their class in their school which i don't think was problem.I think that attitude comes from bullying just so they can have something to pick on when the rest of them are black in a way too.

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I believe that Maleeka is being  bullied and is being picked on for having a really dark shade of black skin,because the kids at her school think that there is a point where someone in their opinion, is "way too black".They bully her because all though she is African American,they feel that not only being brown or  or a lighter shade is more normal for black people than being super dark.I believe that this sort of attitude  comes from slavery,where colorism began.Slave owners had light skin toned African Americans while darker skinned African Americans worked on fields.I think that this is what led to other African Americans that didn't have dark toned skin,think that they were better than those who do. Especially since after slavery Dark tones African Americans were still treated poorly than their lighter skinned brothers and sisters.

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I think Maleeka is ridculed because she is a darker complection than everyone else. This is where the colorism attiditudes come from. Colorism is when darker skinned black people and lighter skinned black people are basically feuding cause of the complection of there skin. Colorism comes from slavery. The blacks were enslaved by whites. The light skins work in the big house and the darker skins worked in the fields. So since the complections were not around each other they had spreaded emotions about each other.

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I believe that Meleeka is being ridiculed for being dark skinned because other people have flaws their self and they want make someone else feel bad because they feel bad. Attitudes from skin tone come from when slavery was alive and ever since the slave owner made the slaves feel a wrong way about their self most African American. People be something their not and they get picked at for that.

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I think Maleeka is being ridiculed about her skin tone because they were probably not comfortable around,maybe they were jealous because their skin tone is not really black or white.I think slavery is the basis of colorism

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I believe that Maleeka is ridculed because she is dark skinned and most of the people that pick on her are black too also some people that pick on Maleeka are the same color as her but don't realize they are the same color as her and some of them pick on Maleeka because they don't like her at all.

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if you are "too black" people have more jokes to tell like "you so black i if you play hide and seek in the dark nobody is not going to find you" its not many jokes you can tall about a light skined person

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I think Maleeka is ridiculed for being dark skinned  in an African American  school because they think that  she's too dark so they ridiculed what john--john  do like singing a song about  her very dark skin,  starring at her, and more. all of the teasing and  singing all starts at john-john.

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I think Maleeka is ridiculed for being dark skinned in a school that is predominantly African American  because of the things that people say about her or the way that they see her. I think such attitudes about skin tone come from what type of hair she probably have like a jiggaboo and from slavery.

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I think Maleeka is being picked at because there are hardly any body like her that is the same skin tone as her. Even thought she is blacker then them they are all black but other people do not see that

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Slavery started the colorism and skin tone attitudes.  So i think Maleeka is constantly called black because

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everyone is made in their own image but that is not what others are seeing in maleeka . therefore this is why others are picking on  maleeka  about her skin tone..plus if everybody was the same , what sense would that make.

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I believe the students picked on the color of her skin because she was a darker black than everybody else. i think that the attitudes about skin tone came from bullying. i believe this because when she stopped wearing hand-made clothes, they didn't really pick on  her clothing. since they couldn't pick on her clothing, they picked on her skin tone.

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"... I didn't used to mind being this color.  Then kids started teasing me about it.  Making me feel like something was wrong with how I look... I stare at myself for maybe 20 minutes in Daddy's mirror.  I don't get it. I think I'm kind of nice looking.  Why don't others see what I see?"

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"... I didn't used to mind being this color.  Then kids started teasing me about it.  Making me feel like something was wrong with how I look... I stare at myself for maybe 20 minutes in Daddy's mirror.  I don't get it. I think I'm kind of nice looking.  Why don't others see what I see?"

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Why do you think Maleeka is ridiculed for being dark skinned in a school that is predominantly African American?  Where do you think such attitudes about skin tone come from?