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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kids then are most 1/16th and more importantly you don't identify as black, you weren't raised in a black family, except for curly hair you don't look black. Mention it in passing but it is really offensive when white people who are 1/16th and weren't raised in a black family go around saying they understand the struggle because they are part black too. [/quote]

+1000[/quote]

What? 
If the story is true, OP IS mixed and so are her kids.  You don’t get to be the arbiter of who calls themselves mixed and who does not. She has a story and so do her kids.  She’s not saying she wants to appropriate the black experience in America.  She’s not saying anything about understanding the struggle of being black in America.  But she has a story- she always felt different.  She was made fun of for her looks.  Her family had a secret.  She didn’t even have an opportunity to know her mixed race identity, even though she was ridiculed for it.  She can identify as she wishes- mixed race is her actual truth, and you don’t get to pick what percentage she or her kids need to have to decide whether they identify as mixed race. [/quote]

OP’s percentage of African ancestry is lower than the European/white ancestry in most African Americans.  She is not mixed.  [/quote]

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