Sentence examples for wrong skin from inspiring English sources

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The police harass anybody "with the wrong skin colour," adds another.

My seven-year-old daughter was discriminated against last week in the school playground for having "the wrong skin colour".

But last Friday, a classmate told my daughter she wasn't invited to her birthday party because she was "the wrong skin colour".

Locals aver that people with the wrong skin colour are no longer beaten up if they wander into the estate, as they were until recently.

But Kelly's formulation leaves out the hundreds of thousands of people who have no such intent and are simply unlucky enough to be caught in the wrong skin.

My unborn son, a seven-month old fetus, could have all the world's unspoken markings of a criminal — the wrong skin color and the wrong name.

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It may be absolutely gorgeous weather out there but, speaking as a ginger, there remains the potential for things to go horribly wrong skin-wise.

Next week, I'll address the question of whether the votes of Floridians with the wrong color skin will be fully counted if they are cast.

The second – and by far the most reliable – way to be criminalised by poverty is to have the wrong colour skin.

The marks aren't decoration, aren't designed to draw the gaze or enhance a feature, and even if they were, what's wrong with skin that looks the age it is, rather than the air-brushed and painted flawlessness of an eternal 20-year-old?

I went in there one day and there was a man giving a talk in front of the picture, saying, look at this revolting woman, she's so fat and disgusting, there's obviously something wrong with her skin.

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