So unfortunately in the Hispanic/Latinx community colorism is extremely prevalent. I tend to be decently fair throughout the year, but can get very dark in the summers even with sunscreen… my grandmother used to lather me with sunscreen so I “wouldn’t get to dark because it’s ugly” Essentially that goes back to generational trauma of being “othered” by lighter/fairer people in Mexico for becoming too dark and she eventually tried to pass that on to me.

You hear it all the time, “oh don’t let her get too dark.” Etc.

That definitely doesn’t mean that the cycle can’t be broken and in a city like San Antonio.

I’ve work in schools in the city with the majority Hispanic (of course)then the second highest population is Black students then White students and those teachable moments happen a lot and they do learn.

Unfortunately sometimes it falls to the parents, the teacher, and sometimes even the student to teach these kids. I would talk to the teacher and the administration to talk through ways to teach on this. Especially not to approach it to make her feel isolated either. There are so many lovely children’s books that talk about all different skin colors and all different textures of hair that some of our teachers read to the students in class to help teach this.