It's stuff like this that makes me lose all sympathy for whatever pleaing people of color do when they resort to this sort of rhetoric, in which they preach instead of teach. It is obvious that this entire thing is emotional and entirely devoid of reason and understanding. You want to know why children are staring at your black face? Because you keep shouting: "Don't look at my BLACK face! Don't look at it!" Not that you literally do that in front of white children, but this piece certainly makes it sound like that. Really, at this point, I can't see you as nothing else but black because you just keep on reiterating over and over again your blackness. It seems like at first you don't want anyone to see you as black but the way you put out your words, it's as if you put BLACK in bold, black italics. It's so self-defeating! Naturally, you're not the only one. One only has to be on Medium for a while to know that. But I recall back in the day (and I'm just a young adult) when we did not talk about race this way, because no one brought it up, not even people of color, because they just had no desperate need to emphasize it.