We were taught in school, and I was taught at home and in church, that blacks and whites were equal and we should not discriminate based on skin color, even if my school was almost entirely white.

Win on your merit, not your skin color.

There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.

Her skin is pale as watermelon sucked free of its juices.

Some white people are privileged, some aren't. Some black people are, some aren't. It's strikes me as, by definition, a racist attack in that it's making a generalization - a negative one - based on skin color.

I grew up feeling people didn't look at skin color.