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you know, for the most part, a lot of the black dancers that have been taken into elite professional companies have lighter skin or are biracial because they can more easily fit in. they can pancake their skin to be a lighter colour, to fit in with the rest of the corps de ballet. would it be harder if you had darker skin, would you be... ..misty copeland ? absolutely it would be harder. i mean, there are so many dancers that have the talent. this is not an issue of not being able to find talented black and brown dancers. this is an issue of not having the support, not having the access or opportunity and not being... ..not being seen as equal. all the girls put on powder, but you're being asked to put on the same colour powder, pancake. white. and then that's when i start to think, like, what's going on here? do they want me to look like myself? or do... do they want me to be an individual and still be able to take on this character? but as myself in my brown skin