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What’s not to love about being fair?

20-Sep-09

Unidentified female X, in comment on facebook picture of self looking v tan: oh gosh…i need to stay out of the sun! Unidentified female Y, in response: yuh lookin BLACK Unidentified female X: I know. This is terrible…definitely not the shade I want to be!!! I love being fair!! Indeed.

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Thoughts on the “Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People”

15-Feb-08

I have the right not to justify my existence in this world not to keep the races separate within me not to be responsible for people’s discomfort with my physical ambiguity not to justify my ethnic legitimacy to identify myself differently than strangers expect me to identify to identity myself differently than how my parents [...]

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Feel it in the One Drop

12-Feb-08

I feel an identity crisis coming on. This most recent bout of mixed-person-itis was triggered by a post over at What Tami Said, in which the eponymous author comments on “black people” (italics mine) who claim mixed heritage. While she makes some interesting points, two of her affirmations thereupon unsettled me: Mixed ancestry is often [...]

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