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Diggs said Chocolate Me was inspired by his own childhood experiences of being teased about his skin colour.
Diggs' cousin, Shane Evans, who did the illustrations for both books, is confident that the books can help people to accept themselves and change the mindset surrounding the bleaching phenomenon.
"These works can deal with not just the ideal and the surface, but also the inner person as well ... . No one is chocolate in terms of the ideal ... , and no one is black, really. These are just ideas, and I think that us working in the world of publishing is very important, because you learn how words can manifest in society and change people's minds, so we are trying to expand the dialogue around what race really is," he said.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/l...aching-jamaica
Diggs' cousin, Shane Evans, who did the illustrations for both books, is confident that the books can help people to accept themselves and change the mindset surrounding the bleaching phenomenon.
"These works can deal with not just the ideal and the surface, but also the inner person as well ... . No one is chocolate in terms of the ideal ... , and no one is black, really. These are just ideas, and I think that us working in the world of publishing is very important, because you learn how words can manifest in society and change people's minds, so we are trying to expand the dialogue around what race really is," he said.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/l...aching-jamaica
