My race is not my nationality.
Linda Morris, Shawnee, KS. Growing up, I got teased a lot for being a fair-skinned black girl by kids who would assume and make sure...
You should marry a white man.
Camille G.S. San Francisco, CA Growing up as a first-generation Asian American, my family would tell me that I should marry a white man for...
Mexican, people assume I speak Spanish
Anonymous Sacramento, CA I am mixed Filipina and Mexican. Parents divorced when I was young, both my parents remarried to racist people who felt the...
Light-skinned Jamaican that dosen’t speak Patois
Renee Wilmot-Graham Severn, MD Americans are surprised when I tell them my family is from Jamaica and even more surprised because I am fair skinned....
Really? Because you don’t look Cuban.
Carina Tillan Hallandale, FL My rebuttal to that is usually “Then what am I supposed to look like?” You’d be surprised how often people realize...
Here come the white people….Family!
Robbie Wolfe Chester, VA My mom and us, her children, were noticeably “lighter” than the rest of my family, which were very brown to dark-skinned...
