Bast, until we raise our children to be blind to differences in skin, when our conversations don't include terms like fair skinned or dark skinned, black or white, until then, people are going to nitpick about race. Be grateful it's only artistic nitpicking. It could be ignorant bigotry, which, thank the Goddess, we haven't had here yet, at least as far as I've seen. Maybe people nitpick because they don't understand. If so, what a wonderful way to educate them.

Talent is God's gift to you. Using it is your gift to God.