Completely forgot about that usage - must be travelling too much again...
I sat down in a meeting (Heath's hometown) of engineers, scientists, and procurement people and respective admins (boy, add a Rabbi and that's the start of a good joke) and the first sentence from one of the people was directed at my assistant - beautiful young lady of Mexican and African American heritage...
"Why are you so dark?"
Their HR department was busy for a month afterwards doing "cultural awareness seminars"
We had Puffin cereal for breakfast by the way, for those wondering about thread relevance.