Biracial. Never wanted to be white.
Anjali, USA. Growing up I feel like I only belong to my Sri Lankan culture and heritage because I dismiss the white part of myself....
She gets to choose her identity
Felix Brooks Jr., Kalamazoo, MI As the father of a biracial child I told my daughter not to let anyone place a label on you....
Why can’t you be beige, mommy?
Janai Leeb, Val Verde, CA. My 5 year old, bi-racial daughter is just discovering that her family may be a little different. I’m a black...
I couldn’t rub the black out
Ima Oduok, Houston, TX. As a bi-racial child who grew up with her white family, I always wanted to look more like them. When I...
Bi-racial means you are nobody’s baby.
Silvija Singh, Pittsburgh, PA. Unlike my sibs, I do not look white, altho I have a white mother. I do not get treated like a...
Obama isn’t black. He is bi-racial.
Dan Brown, DeWitt, MI. Michele, you can’t have it both ways. If, as you said last night, you view Obama as black (you said “of...
Growing up biracial was very painful.
Jim Roberts Atoka, TN I’m half Caucasian and half Asian. Growing up in the rural South during the eighties was a painful and humiliating experience....
Why is Obama black, not white?
Ed Morganroth, Jr. Plover, WI I have wondered since Mr. Obama broke onto the national scene why both he and the media have always characterized...
Being American doesn’t automatically mean white.
Melanee West Helena, AR Growing up in the military kids would explain they were biracial by saying “I’m X and American” meaning they were ethnically...
Ambiguously different from everyone else. Stereotypes.
Jessica Winfrey Portland, OR I am biracial and bicultural and was educated for the first 6 years in a very diverse school on an air...
Why do you think I’m different?
Natasha Sykes Saint Louis, MO Biracial. New Kid. Moving all the time. Never fitting in.
Mixed Family all about love, always
Jeffery Sweet Kenosha, WI I am white and my wife is black. We have a son who is the most beautiful person in this world....
I’m not a mutt, I’m human
Krystal Moss Columbia, SC I’m 16 years old and growing up around Blythewood SC was a really hard thing. When I was little kids would...
Mixed or not. All equals humanity
Pete Kersey Vero Beach, FL To clarify…it doesn’t matter if you are talking about mixed marriages, mixed blood lines or pure stock of any race….all...
There isn’t a box for Other
Traci Butler USA I’m a Caucasian mother of a beautiful, amazing little girl who happens to be of mixed heritage, because her father is from...
