I do identify with being black, and if people dont identify me that way, thats their issue. Im happy to challenge peoples understanding of what it looks like to be biracial, because guess what? In the next 50 years, people will start looking more and more like me. Maybe that’s my number one Biracial Girl Problem – that in a “post-racial” America, there is no room for the “Mulatto” experience. We’re invalidated because we’re expected to identify within preexisting confines that aren’t relevant to us. Everyone is quick to assign us to one “side,” but speaking for myself here, I’m incapable of seeing the world in just black and white. And I’m grateful for it.-Rashida Jones love her ❤️one of the rare modern celebs I can relate to ... Here’s the deal – no matter where we fall on the biracial rainbow, we have two parents who are two different ethnicities and hopefully, we love those parents. They make us who we are; their problems are our problems. We have black cousins, white cousins, Indian cousins, whatever. Just because we don’t look like them doesn’t mean we need to be pit against them. We’re not going to join a team or choose a side just because it makes classifying us easier. It doesn’t make understanding us easier, which is what we need more of – more compassion and empathy, less categorizing and organizing. We’re all people; we don’t fit in square holes or round holes or pigeonholes. Oh, and if you’re wondering what to call us? I was watching this episode of Shameless the other day, and one of the characters referred to his eventual biracial children as “Tomorrow People.” You can call me that.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 04:33:16 +0000
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