What's the color of your skin? Does it matter though? Who really cares?!?

I am writing, well I am really wanting to know. What is the color of your skin? Sitting here watching a television show and an interesting topic was brought up. The color of the young pregnant mothers skin and why she chose to have a child with someone outside of her race? Well she is an black woman and she felt the need for her to have a child with a young man who was outside of her race. He is a filipino guy I believe. She figured that if she was going to have a baby, she would make sure that her baby would have more opportunities than she had. She never felt pretty enough because of her dark skin. That really struck a cord with me as well. Being a darker skinned female, I can remember all to well all of the criticism that I faced growing up and always wishing to be a few shades lighter than I was born with. Being one of the darkest people that I knew and always hearing the dreaded "You're cute to be black or you're cute to be dark" crappy reassuring all of the darker skinned girls and women that we are cute to be our complexion. It is so irritating to hear that come out of a guys mouth or anybodies mouth for that matter. That goes back to people always trying to make us darker skinned females feel inadequate. Even at elementary school age it starts. Which means that starts at home for people. Not sure why people have a learned behavior of being mean but people need to do better.