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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a bit puzzled and dismayed by the several biracial PPs' comments describing bad experiences being accepted by blacks.  I am biracial (I'm the blue-eyed, light-skinned EOTP PP) and grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods.  While on occasion I got the "What are you?" or "Are you black or white?" sorts of questions, those never bothered me.  Overall I had a pretty good experience, and didn't really think of myself as any different from any of my black friends and neighbors.  My experience was so positive that I decided to attend a historically black college (Hampton), where as a PP mentioned re: Howard, there seemed to be a disproportionately high number of very light-skinned students who weren't biracial but looked almost white (like Mayor Gray, etc.).  I don't think any of us were questioned about our lineage.

So not to discredit other biracial PPs' experiences--there are individual differences and yes there are some class dynamics wrapped up in there somewhere too--but I don't want people to think that biracial individuals are universally scorned by blacks.  It may be that folks with unhappy experiences are the ones commenting here.[/quote]

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