African roots camouflaged by chameleon skin.
Marilene de Ritis
Ann Arbor, MI
Understanding Race Project- University of Michigan
What shade of black am I?
B. Smith-Payne
Carlsbad, NM
As a black American, I feel that I must often act as a chameleon, in order to move in and through diverse social, economic, and political situations. Consequently, my “blackness” takes on various personas and can change in the blink of an eye. Thus, my question.
I can be both, or neither.
Donovan Holder,
Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
In South Florida, I am a chameleon. Mother is white, Dad is Jamaican. But my skin is the exact same color as my Latino friends, my Indian friends, my light skinned Black friends, and my Muslim friends. I am all of them, yet none of them. This is why my parents moved here. Racial identity is a positive here, not a negative.
