Many people who call themselves black in the United State aren't fully
black at all. One would do better to consider them multiethnic.
Being of multicultural heritage myself, I found it extremely difficult as
a child to be true to myself. If I expressed or alluded to my true heritage,
it was frowned upon by blacks & whites as if it were not true. I have always
found this disheartening and offensive.
It appears that if a white person is Irish, Dutch & French they are allowed
to say what they are; but if a black person is Black, Native American, & White
they are NOT allowed to say what they are, to share the multiethnicily of
their heritage. Any inference to another race is looked upon as an attempted
escape from their Blackness. this, too, I find offensive.
In a country where we have fought for freedom for so long, where we have
fought to be WHAT we are, Black, White, Green, or Grey, whatever: in a
country where racial impurity is a way of life, it is imperative for us as Black
people to recognize and embrace our diversiteis and to incorporate them into our
comman culture. I'm a Black Man, A Brother, But I am proud to be the other
things as well...
Posted By: Rori Nelson
Tuesday, April 17th 2012 at 4:06AM
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