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Brown looks, because the way brown looks looks really nasty for some reason, but i don t know what reason. that s all. that s part of my conversation with brielle after she had taken the test and those answers that she gave me matched what she said on the test. they re painful to watch. imagine how her parents felt, for them, like laura who you saw earlier, the test was a wake-up call. soledad o brien caught up with brielle and her parents recently. reporter: this is brielle today. her parents, byron and latisha, focused on changing her self-perception, shocked at brielle s answers. it made me feel like, wow, what are we doing wrong? but we thought about some of the experiences that she has had, where she has noticed her skin color at an early age and we thought that it was affecting her a certain way, but we didn t realize that she realized it. her perception was that a ....
And they need to know that and i need for them to know that. good job. i ve tried to find ways to link that physical beauty, you know, skin tone, your pretty hair, your pretty eyes, whatever it is, to the beauty i m not speaking of beauty that is just because of what s inside, you re beautiful on the outside as well. reporter: brielle s answers got a strong reaction from family, friends and parishioners at church. did someone say, what are you teaching this child? no. they were shocked at her answer, but it wasn t, like, a negative thing. a lot of people who spoke to me, they took up for her. they said, well what do you expect? look at society. when you get married, what do you wear? you wear white. when the bad guys go to rob a bank or a store, what does he put on? he puts on black. so what are the messages? reporter: beyond looking at what their daughters see and hear from the world, byron and latisha are looking inward. ....