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In every aspect of your life there is a choice. There is never room for more than one race, most people want just one. Why choose?... I invite you to tell your of your personal experiences here. I remember going to a lily-white elementary school while living in the hood. I was excluded from activities there because of my blackness, and made fun of in my neighborhood because of the way I talked. I still get the talk ridicule every now and then, but I don't take it the same. It's just part of me, so if anyone has a true problem with that, then they have a problem with me. I don't have time to be bothered by it.-ED. "Being a multiracial female I get all kinds of flack from people. I am mixed with black and Asian and most of the flack that I get is from black females. I was always stereotyped as thinking "I was too good" for something as stupid as my hair being long. I don't understand why black females always tend to shy away from me and just assume things about me instead of trying to know my real personality. And the fact that I talked "white" and date guys from many different backgrounds doesn't help. I don't do these things to please people. And because so many black females treated me wrong when I was growing up I don't even try to make friends with them. I do have black females as friends but these were ones that approached me. But most of my friends are mixed too. I enjoy their company because they can identify with me and they don't turn their noses up at me because I have long hair, sound like a valley girl, or date a white man. And the ironic thing is that you would think that I'm light skinned being treated this way, but I think because I'm dark skinned and claim another heritage people think I'm a sellout and not proud of my black heritage. That is completely wrong. When are we going to stop stereotyping, pointing fingers and just get to know people as people no matter what they are. We should embrace each others cultures and heritages!" Posted by: Tamika, 25, Brooklyn, NY "I
experienced the same problems as many of my fellow multiracial peoples.
I'm part black, native American, and Puerto Rican, and I grew up in the
suburbs. Things weren't so bad there I didn't really run into
problems until I moved to Philly and discovered that I suddenly talked
too white, walked too white, and didn't look black enough. This
led to many fights as a youngster, and till today some (but not too many)
people give me trouble. The sad thing is that the majority of the
crap I get comes from my own siblings and their friends and even my parents
they have all but been assimilated into the 'black' world while I continue
to date outside my race and listen to rock music. And while these
acts seem innocent enough, some people really have a problem with it.
Imagine the awkward silence that hung in the air when my blond-haired
blue-eyed German girlfriend went to lunch with my family. And when
it comes to filling out forms, it's so much easier to circle ! "B"
for black than write "all of the 'above' in the 'other' box.
I wish I wouldn't have to |