Jade Pritchett,
Port St. Lucie, FL.
Growing up, I never understood how I was supposed to chose a bubble, check a box, pick one race. I am multiracial, and proud of it. Teachers would tell me to choose the one that I “feel”. Does that mean that I can’t feel them all? When I grew up, and went to get a drivers license, they said if I have any African American in me I have to choose that. How can someone tell me that I have to choose one, identify with one, be one? It’s ignorant to think that every single part of my racial heritage doesn’t have an impact on me, and that someone else gets to decide that we have to ignore a part of ourselves.
