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Honestly, I won’t fit your assumptions!

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Raul Fernandez Eugene, OR

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Call Me Mutt: One Doesn’t Fit

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Mark Sundermann Holt, MI This morning’s story about Mixed Heritage gave me hope. How does one pick from the following? German, Mexican, Dutch, Zapotec, Irish and (possibly) Menomini? I’m a MUTT.

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Black AND White, no clear fit.

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Barbara Jones Albuquerque, NM I was raised with a Northern European bias by Mom and family, my Black birth father not really being in the picture. It didn’t bother me being the only kid of color in our white family – you do get some interesting questions. When people speak of our first Black president, […]

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Your race boxes don’t fit me.

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Dawn Stits Lakewood, CA

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Mixed race kids fit in nowhere

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Tim We’re never quite accepted.

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