Black in America, white in Africa

Dauda Ladipo
Nigeria

Grew up and live in both the US and Nigeria. Because of my mixed racial heritage I got used to being viewed as belonging to the local racial minority in both places, even though I didn’t identify culturally with that group. Whereas, the half of me that was local was in fact part of the racial majority. The other half? Well, just visiting from out of town. Gives one a constant perspective of the total ridiculousness of race as an idea.


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