I am biracial, ask me anything.
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Anonymous
| I was hoping OP was black and white or black and asain. White and asian is no fun, I want a minority in the mix. |
Anonymous
| Do you have a pan face? |
Anonymous
Sadly, I laughed so hard at this. AHAHAHAHA |
Anonymous
I am biracial, black/white, you can ask me anything ... |
Anonymous
Is your hair nappy? |
Anonymous
No. It's like white people's hair. |
Anonymous
How do you percieve yourself? How do you process how others percieve you? What do you wish your parents had done (or not done) re: your racial identity when you were growing up? |
Anonymous
Do you act white or black? |
Anonymous
I consider myself African-American, if that's what you mean. I think most strangers perceive me as African-American as well. African-Americans probably suspect that one of parents is not black because of my features and hair. I've never been sure whether white people have that same perception - but they certainly know that I'm not white. I think my parents did a great job with the racial identity issue. My mom is white, which makes a big difference because the mother is so influential in how a home is managed and children are raised. So on the one hand, my upbringing was culturally somewhat different than my AA peers. On the other hand, my parents made it a priority to raise us around other AA families so we would be able to identify with AAs. They never tried to tell us we were "both races" or that we didn't have to choose one race or the other, or anything like that - they told us we should just consider ourselves AA because that's what they world would consider us. Others may disagree with this approach, but it saved me and my sibling a ton of racial identity angst that I know many other biracial children had to work through. |
Anonymous
Was just about to say this!!! |
Anonymous
Both, depending on the situation. But I imagine the answer would be the same for any upper middle class professional AA. |
Anonymous
I'm in here DYING laughing. So damn bad. Wow...wiping tears away. |
Anonymous
| what race do you tend to date? |
Anonymous
| This post just got bijacked. |
Anonymous
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Have you ever met a biracial black and white person that identifies as white?
Why do most identify as African American or Black if not African American? |