I am a product of a bi racial couple, my mother is black and my father is white. I never really had a problem in school like some bi racial kids did, most people thought I was cool cuz I was puerto rican but I told them I was mixed, then they would be cool about it anyways cuz of my down to earth personality but without getting to far off track, I noticed alot of confusion with other mixed children, they don't know what they should be called, from day one my mother told me I was black and my father didn't agrue with that, I see myself as black and don't idenify with anything of the white race except for maybe the men However, I don't deny the white part of either.
what I hate is when I see a bi racial person and they only want to acknowledge one part of themselves. Like I knew a girl who was also mixed, mother white, father black but she wanted to come off to people purly white, although she looked hispanic like Applonia.
I would get so mad when I saw her walking around, talking to only the white kids at school, trying her best to sound white you know "like becky Oh my God" and I don't beleieve I never seen her with a black guy. I know it's none of my business, but I would say something to her sometimes, like " You know your not just all white" and she would have the nerve to get mad at me like I called her a bitch or something... I don't have a problem with being mixed I love my parents both the same, but the one thing I do hate is the feeling like you have to choose between the two races your folks are this is why it's gets confusing and alot of times you have alot mixed kids whos angry and don't know who they are. Like I said, I do consider myself black cuz that's what I identify myself with. but if I was to go to my dad family reunion I wouldn't try to change just to make them feel comfortable they're just gonna have to except me for who I am...

What do you guys think about this?

my two younger half-sisters are bi-racial as well, so i can see where you're comin from, lisa.

My mom is 1/2 English & 1/2 Spanish and my dad is Mexican. Growing up with 2 distinctly different cultures was a benefit as far as I'm concerned. I identify myself as Mexican, even though my skin is fair.

It's interesting that I often had problems fitting in. I went to a school that was predominantly Hispanic/Latin (whatever the term is nowadays) and many of the kids gave me flack for pretending like I was Mexican. My last name is Corona and the other Mexican children often thought that because I have light skin and green eyes that i was lying about it to fit in. Since I grew up in a predominanly hispanic area, I didn't relate well to the white kids who had way different experiences than I did.

Anyway, even though there are obstacles when you are young I don't have them anymore. I guess as we grow older, it's easier just to see people as people and leave the classifications at the door...

I'll never forget one time my Mexican grandma took me shopping for school clothes. I was 5. We were walking through Montgomery Wards and one of my grandmothers friends saw her and came over to say hello. She looked at my grandma and then at me and asked her, "who is this?". My gradma told her I was her grandson. Her friend called me little whitey in spanish.

Here was this Mexican lady with a small white child. It might have looked like a kidnapping to someone on the outside

It's funny how people are boggled by such a site.

Bi-racial children are some of the cutest kids you will ever see.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Hey, I have a Mexican dad too!

I don't see it as an issue, or at least it's becoming less and less of one. Almost everyone was mixed where I grew up. We all learned to laugh at our differences, and share in the culture of one another.

Quite a healthy place to be, in my opinion.

It gets ne mad like Halle Berry saying at the Oscars that she was the first black woman to recieve an Oscar... Sheesshh!!!


Did she bother to check her mum in the audience who was baltantly white?

REDFEATHERS said:

But some bi-racial (black/white) consider themselves black. You've never heard of the one drop blood huh?

It's funny...my cousin is married to a white guy and their daughter is very fair skinned with green eyes. They live in NYC and she was saying that folks where asking who she is a nanny for...


lawd

REDFEATHERS said:

Halle Berry's mother raised her to be a Black woman. So when she a said that she was only affirming what her mother always taught her. She didn't even know her dad. I am a black woman married to a white man and we discussed it before we were married that we would raise the kids both ways.
My biracial daughter looks hispanic now with long brown hair, brown eyes and fair skin. When she was an infant she was so fair her veins showed through her skin in places. I got alot of questions especially from Black people and because I was comfortable with the situation it didn't bother me to answer.
Now she gets alot of attention in hispanic circles, so she has mainly biracial or hispanic play mates.
My older daughter is black and fits in better white, she gets alot of flack but she is comfortable with herself and chose this path for herself.
The only thing I tell my girls is to live life to the fullest, don't limit yourself by race or culture, people are people and the ones who truly care about you are the ones you spend time with.

Paisley said:

Agreed, look at me

Rhondab said:

my baby looks like me just very light so I don't get the nanny looks anymore

i am human


and a mixed child... one of french and irish


can you fuckin believe that.. :O

DORA said:

Were talkin about Black and White DORA, your

Paisley said:

good lord...

i recognize the label if it is desired

DORA said:

Ya know I'm just phuckin with ya girl!

my neice is half white and half black (we say shes
Ja-candian= half jamacian, half Canadian) and is one of the most beautiful children i've ever seen...but my sister who is the whitest girl eva gets asked all the time whos baby it is...and gets the strangest looks when she says hers...

I'm biracial and I think of it as having dual citizenship. I'm comfortable in both black and white groups for the most part and I think that is a benefit that many of my monoracial friends don't have. Sometimes I get mistaken for Latina or Hawaian but whatever. There have been times where I feel like i don't belong anywhere but I think that feeling is common among everyone regardless of race.

I feel it's a Wonderful Union.I have quite a few Races in My Family.but Like Tiger Woods knows&Lenny Kravitz among others Our Diversity within out Familys are a Wonderful thing but thanks to the One Drop Rule,the Police,School,etc.. there is always a Box to Check One.and Halle Berry knows outside Her Home how the World Sees Her.to quote Earth,Wind&Fire"That's the Way of The World".