So!
I'm sitting here watching Black Ink Crew. The new girl, Melody, is biracial. She said growing up, she never fit in with the white kids and she never in with the black kids. I SWEAR I SAID THIS TO @beautifulxruins! My mom is a Irish, Indian, and Black woman from Mississippi. She looks like a white woman. My dad is a Black, Italian, and French man from the Bronx. He doesn't look like it though. AT ALL! I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO RELATE TO ANYONE! I grew up getting picked on. I went to a predominantly white elementary school and I swear to y'all I thought I was white until about 2nd grade. This darker black girl told me I wasn't white. I was black just like she was. I said no I'm not I'm white like my mama and my daddy is black. The term biracial didn't mean shit to me then. Didn't even know the word! I have long, soft hair. Well had all my shit broke off cause of over processing. Don't get it twisted though my shit still soft and curly! I am fair skinned and have freckles. I didn't fit the bill of a little black girl. I didn't know who to play with. No one really wanted to be my friend. Everyone in the office loved me though. After my dad came to get me early one day due to the fact that I was vomiting everywhere, no one AND I MEAN NO ONE treated me the same EVER AGAIN! I was written up for the oddest things and my teachers started failing me. How the hell do you fail a second grader just because of who her father is?! That's when my parents actually sat me down and explained it [racism] to me. They pulled me out of that public school and put me in a black catholic school. Talk about a fucking culture shock! It was just a lot for me to take in. It still is. I'm still coming into my own. I'm 22. I don't have a big ass or full lips(I ain't got Kylie before Tyga lips though), but I have thighs, boobs, and hips. Now I have a son. He's fair skinned with curly hair. His father is a chocolate man covered in tattoos. Just the way I like em. 😏😘 I want him to be comfortable in his own body and skin. Boys are insecure as well. I just don't want him to have that issue. I want to be confident in everything he does. He will know both sides of himself. I will teach him everything I can about loving who he is culturally. 💛💖
