Ever heard this children’s chorus: “Red and yellow, black and white, all are precious in his sight”? Now, while all are precious in God’s sight, there are no “red and yellow” or “black and white” people.

You see, we all have different amounts of the same brown skin pigment called melanin. How much we have is largely determined by our genetics. Some people have genes to make a small amount of melanin, so they are light brown. Others produce a lot and are very dark brown. But we’re all brown—just different shades of it.

So, let’s teach our kids to say, “Shades of brown from dark to light, they are precious in his sight.”