um yeah so quick thoughts i need to get out. i’m really obviously mixed races (im black white and mexican) but ive always felt like i dont really belong anywhere because im not full black or full white or full mexican ya know? and i never grew up with any african culture around me and limited mexican culture (except for food omg so much food) so idk i feel like im not allowed to say im something (especially mexican bc i have prominent african girl hair and darker skin than like white ppl idk so im just viewed as a lightskin black girl ?) like im afraid someone will say something like “oh no youre not *blank*” youre only like half that doesnt count” (which kinda has happened which sucks.) like i am this but youre making me feel like im not ?? idk life stinks and im feelin my emotions sorry
Yeah, that’s sort of why I’m against interacial relationships even though I’m mixed myself because I know the affects on self-identity. Even though, mixed people have issues with having to “choose”, I found it helpful to do exactly that. Choose the most marginalized ethnicity and re-immerse into that. Make it a point to date people from that ethnicity as a step to decolonize and become closer to that part of you. It may become easier for you because you’re Afro-Latinx which has a big,vibrant community of their own for you to be a part of. I’d ditch the white part completely, for obvious reasons.
also, you’ll have less people point out you’re only half-black if you become more vocal about black struggles and current issues, immerse more into “Blackness”. for example, people don’t question Jesse Williams on his blackness because he’s so vocal about black issues while people like Don Lemon are ridiculed for their whitewashed perspectives.
















