“Being in this town, with its loving and supportive community, has not spared my biracial, Black-presenting daughter from the stings of racism and bias,” writes the author.If your house is anything like mine, KPop Demon Hunters rules your playlists. My 7-year-old daughter (who skips about 30% of the movie to avoid the scary bits) is an absolute devotee.She proudly shared that she had created a KPop Demon Hunters club after school, where she and fellow devotees lip-sync the catchy lyrics to Takedown or Golden and act out various scenes under the clear skies of the elementary school playground.We’re sure to see scores of children dressed as Rumi, the movie’s central character, for Halloween. But my daughter won’t be one of them. A few nights ago, she tearfully told me, “I can’t be Rumi because I don’t have light skin. I have brown skin. Some girls with light skin told me that.”
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