Not Understanding Doesn’t Make Me Racist
Rhonda Cavanaugh Normandy Park, WA My statement reflects how I feel when I don’t understand and ask questions of those who are further along in...
Too mixed too choose just one!
Tess Escoto, Citrus Heights, CA. My roots are in Texas and Mexico. While some may look at me and say that I appear to be...
Being mixed means I am American.
Mattison South Hero, VT For most of my life, society wanted me to choose: White or Black. With President Obama in the White House, finally,...
Something other: ambiguous race, ambiguous identity.
Rachel Crooks Tallahassee, FL As a woman with a Mexican mother (“Mexican” to signify “mixed race,” although my mother has been identified by some as...
Mixed: beaten for looking “too white”
Selena “Jazz” Baker Salisbury, MD Tonight makes three years since my assault. There was blood on the sidewalk when I walked to work this morning....
My daughter says Tiana’s too dark.
Lisa Clark Sacramento, CA I’m of mixed race and it hurt to hear my daughter express that she prefers the blonde Barbies to Disney’s Princess...
White mom of bi-racial child forgotten.
Peggy Person Cleveland, TN I have always been so disappointed in “America”, for labeling bi-racial, or mixed race children as one race or the other....
That is all that really matters
Ana Molero-Pullin Lake Worth, FL I am originally from Venezuela. My husband is African-American. He always says he doesn’t know where he is from. Before...
Why’s my skin darker than yours?
Kristen Green Richmond, VA My five-year-old multiracial daughter said these words while sitting on my lap today while we were both in bathing suits by...
Does my white mom hate me?
Michelle Martinez Tempe, AZ As a mixed child of divorced parents, a White mom and Mexican dad, I overheard a lot of racist talk in...
I hate that there is hate!
Mark Babbitt Clayton, NC I was born in 1954 in Western Massachusetts. I was raised to be color-blind. I still remember a friend of my...
Seeing past the differenees, feeling hope
Suzy Spradlin Oakland, CA My beautiful bi-racial granddaughters have helped me shed the fears of difference. I recommend the experience!
Interracial couples: we are the future.
Jeffery Ward Pittsburgh, PA WE are a mixed couple. They said our love would never last, but we just celebrated 14 years together. As a...
Are you black, Asian, or normal?
Jenna Overton Langhome, PA I’m a half-black college student. My friends and I were having a discussion about race one day and a few of...
Biracial is the New Black
USA Growing up biracial you feel the pain of a world still hung up on race and the hope of world that won’t be.
