6 posts tagged “biracial”

Gut Check - Multiracial in America

I'm done relaxing my hair. 

My hair seems to have gone through a change for the better and I'm going to let it grow.  Curlingly, twistingly, blonde/orange/red/browningly (my hair color) grow. 

Cus I've been thinking about it for a while.  And since I've been thinking about it, I haven't put a relaxer in it.  The last one was in January (?) and I'm finally done.

I have about 2 inches of naturally curly, twisty, blonde/orange/red/brown hair.  I just like to touch it sometimes.

NY Times said it better:

"  Mr. Obama finds a lesson in that moment: White guilt has exhausted itself. Even fair-minded whites resist suggestions of racial victimization. Proposals that benefit minorities alone cannot be a basis for the broad coalitions needed to transform the country, he concluded.  "

Over the past year, I've been waging an internal race war.  Not black v. white, but the significance of race as a whole.  It's taxing.

1.  Vote.  Seriously.  Don't say anything to me or to anyone if you're not voting. 

2.  Social injustice based on race is effed up.  But don't expect Obama to campaign with the slogan, "Free Mumia.  Vote Obama."  It's not going to happen.  Oh, and instead of putting the weight on HIM to do it, why don't you demand (via communication) your local representatives to make a change.  Same with New Orleans.  Same with the Jena 6.  Let go of your victim mentality ... I know it's going to be hard.  Do it though.  Change doesn't happen by folks just talking about wanting that change in angry voices - you've got to penetrate a system that has, for the most part, misserved you.  They ("THEY" - THE MAAAAN) counts on you being too scared to make a difference.  THEYYYYY count on you being too scared or too proud or too gangsta to vote.  So, vote.  Write letters.  Tell your friends to vote.  Etc. 

3.  Before selecting Obama cus he's black, get to know the candidates and their stances.  Look.  Someone made it easy.  Try to picture a president that's good for the country.  That's a little much to ask.  But that's why Bush is in office.  His folks voted for him cus they felt he'd make a better America for THEM.  And it worked.  For THEM. 

4.  OBAMA IS MIIIIIXED.  Hella mixed.  From his book, "...my father looked nothing like the people around me — that he was black as pitch, my mother white as milk — barely registered in my mind."  Get the EFFF over him being a potential BLACK president.  Quit making it a racial issue.  YOU are creating a divide.  A divide that is, granted, largely less severe than what happened during slavery and the period that sparked the civil rights era, but a cripling divide nonetheless. 

My race is not yours.

You don't get to pick/prod/question/try to understand the fact that I'm biracial.  If you do do any of the forementioned, please, keep it to myself.

I don't want to hear that I don't look white or that I don't act black.  Cus guess what, it's a flipping insult.  "You don't sound black."  Um.  Would you be more comfortable with the situation if I sounded like you project black folks to sound?  "You look latina (or what-the-eff-ever)."  Guess what?  I'm WHIIIIIITE. 

This isn't aimed at anyone/anything in particular.  Just mixed girl angst.