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This Tween Launched Flexin' In My Complexion After Being Bullied
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July 13, 2018
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3:54Now PlayingKheris Rogers teamed up with older sister Taylor Pollard to build the clothing line Flexin' In My Complexion after years of being bullied for the color of her skin. The company earned $100,000 in its first year of business and catapulted into an empowerment movement.
Taylor Pollard remembers when her younger sister, Kheris Rogers, was in the first grade, she once asked to stay in the bathtub longer — she hoped it would make her skin lighter.
“That's when I realized that the bullying that was going on at her school at the first grade was really taking a toll on her,” Pollard, 23, tells CNBC Make It. Kids were making fun of Rogers' dark complexion.
The students in Rogers’ class in Los Angeles were primarily white, recall the sisters. There were four other African-Americans, but Rogers’ skin was darker than everyone else's. Rogers, now 11, remembers being asked to draw a picture of herself; the teacher gave her a black crayon while the other African-American students were given brown ones.
So Erika Pollard, the girls' mom, moved Rogers to a more diverse school for the 2013 - 2014 school year.
At the school Rogers attended from second through fifth grade, kids still made fun of her, but this time the kids bullying her were black. Rogers came to learn that this called colorism.
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