A 10-year-old girl has created a clothing line to help challenge colourism. Kheris Rogers, from Los Angeles, was bullied a lot at school for her skin colour, which affected her confidence. Now, however, she wants to help instill confidence in others with her T-shirts emblazoned with ‘Flexin in my complexion.’Rogers was bullied by both white and black pupils for her dark skin: “I’ve been bullied a lot, like in the first grade, I went to school with just four other black kids,” Rogers said in an interview with Mic. “And kids used to bully me because they weren’t used to my skin tone. There was an incident with a teacher and we had to draw ourselves and she gave us a black crayon instead of a brown crayon, and I was really upset.”

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