I hear you, as an editor. As a mother of two multiracial children I have commonly heard them reffer to their own skin color as caramel, mocha, butter pecan, choclate, milk chocolate and so forth. I think this has become a way in which some adults teach children about different skin colors and tones without using colors; by relating to things children may understand more clearly. Black and white are not really adequate or true depictions of skin color. Also in adult conversation many other descriptions have been created to define skin color, for example high yellow, Redbone , light skinned, dark skinned, chocolate, sandy, Etc.. I’m just trying to give Insight through my own experience. Many young children of mixed race, do define their skin tone as things such as cinnamon it is not as uncommon as you think. My 6 year old daughter has even looked through a box of crayons and used crayolas description of the crayon that best suited her skin color. Because black and white makes gray, and well that simply does not make sense to her. Because, although Society considers her biracial black and white, grey is not the color of her skin when you mix the two.