#whitepassing

[corythesaxon]

Seeing Hailee Steinfeld play Mary brings warmth to my heart.

I am not a whitepassing Black-White person but I am a whitepassing White-Native person. It makes me happy seeing her but also sad since I know what Mary goes through.

I’ve had people from all backgrounds deny my existence and say racist shit to me. Even after all of that I still love my heritage.

[mixdgrlproblems]

here is a blog post from @jessicaraesparkles about her #mixedexperience and how she presented herself as #White and how she's unlearned and accepted all sides of herself. there's always a story behind why people do this - survival, etc. read the rest of the blog post in my bio! thanks jessica for sharing! comment if this relates to your experiences 👇🏼 #mixedgirlproblems #whitepresenting #whitepassing #growingupmixed #beingmixed #generationaltrauma (at London, England, UK) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnka6fPuI-z/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[silverstagwitch]

A little Appalachian Folk Magic

1. Bottle trees are used in Appalachian areas to keep spirits from roaming free on your lands.

2. Shards of mirrors into glass mason jars placed in your window sill keep out spirits and negative energies. it should all be Blessed and spelled.

3. Crosses made from a briar bush hung on a front door keeps evil at bay

4. Black pepper around the base of your home keeps people away.

5. Wishbones with your name on it and a string inter twined and buried in your front lawn confuses spells pointed at you.

6. Rose's and Rosemary burned in your home brings hope and peace into your home.

7. Write your Enemies name down on a red parchment paper and keep tying it into a knotted ball to keep them bound from doing harm to you.

8. Three arrows buried in the true center of your property keep tornados at bay.

9. john the conqueror root wrapped in a purple silk placed under your bed keeps out bad dreams.

(This is all from my family line that was taught to me i just wanted to share with others that come from the same background as my family.)

[bat-anon]

A POC: *has slightly lighter skin/double-lidded eyes/a small nose*

those^TM white people:

Me, an actual whitepassing person:

[bijoumikhawal]

My mother has thrust upon me milk white skin

It's not a curse but to call it a blessing would be too kind

Would feel like

The knifes edge of self hatred,

The whetstone for a plastic surgeons scalpel

It makes me just this side of exotic

It gives them-

With their white blood and fake tan skin-

The ability to play inside a fake jungle

They look at me and see a tiger,

Declawed and Drugged

Pacing to the music

I'm just on the right side of the knife

To be eaten

Jokes on them

There are no tigers were I'm from

Only jackals

And oh,

How I love the taste of a corpse

—Idris A. "Teeth and Tongues, Skin and Bones"

[verycorrectlotr]

i’m!!! also chinese and white!!!! i- god i can relate SO HARD to your tag rant ell. (also i can’t tell if i look white or chinese? someone called me racist for eating dumplings at lunch because they didn’t realize i was chinese (imagine being like that) but also ? people have read me as chinese before so i have no idea?)

i’m so sorry this is a beyond late reply

i feel like there’s a super specific Feeling that comes with being biracial and whitepassing. idk, it’s like.. a sense that you’re intruding or invading when you try to explore your ethnic side’s culture,,, i dunno askdhjk but anyway the Dumpling Crusader is now in my hall of white saviour fame forever

[spiritroots]

Hi.I have a bit of a sensitive question. I'm a white girl who was adopted by a black family when I was a baby, my mom said she saw me and instantly knew I was meant to be hers. I grew up with rootwork in the house, my grandmother taught me all that I know about rootwork and life in general. However since coming onto Tumblr, I feel like I can't carry on with the traditions I was brought up with because of my skin colour. Any advice? I understand if it's too much of a sensitive question. Thanks❤️

Hey there! I’m sorry that you’re in this situation because it’s definitely a difficult one, and I think it’s good that you reached out about it. I’ve spent my morning thinking on this and asking friends and researching transracial adoption… and to be honest I’ve realized that I don’t think I have enough intimate knowledge of the complexities of transracial adoptions to answer this adequately. I have four different members of my family who were adopted, but I was not adopted and don’t have a deep understanding of that experience. 

I’m gonna share some of my honest thoughts about hoodoo, ancestry, and race, but I don’t think I have a definitive answer for you on exactly what to do.

I’ve included my thoughts below the keep reading line, but I ask other black rootworkers - especially anyone with an understanding of transracial adoption to also join in on the conversation and share some insight.

I was always taught across Africana traditions and hoodoo that having black ancestry is a fundamental part of the practice. It’s in your blood and bones, it’s in your DNA, it’s how you channel and tap into your wisdom and the juju of an unbroken lineage of ancestors going back through slavery and back across the waters to West Africa where these traditions have their origins. Beyond just cultural appropriation (which matters too on a different level), there’s also that blood ancestry aspect that to me is a tradition-level inherent reason why non-black folks (people without any African descent) simply can’t practice hoodoo no matter how hard they may try to.

You said you feel like you can’t practice because of your skin color, but I have white skin too. The difference is that I’m white passing, not white. We may both appear white to most people, but when I take a DNA test, my African ancestry sure does show up next to my European ancestry. I am biracial. We both have black family - and they are your family as much as mine is my family - but you are still white because that doesn’t change your race. Just like a black kid adopted into a white family would still be black - not white.

To me where this gets extra confusing is that since they are your family and they chose to teach you… I mean those are your family traditions too, and while you’re still white, having a black family means that black culture may be a part of your culture too. This is where this question gets into the transracial adoption territory beyond my experience and knowledge. You probably have a special and unique relationship to black culture that other white people don’t have because of your transracial adoption, and that’s an amazing thing. I respect that and it was your grandma’s choice to teach you hoodoo. 

No one can take those experiences or that bond away from you with your family and with your upbringing. I just urge you to understand the privileges you have as a white person. Many of those privileges overlap with the ones I have as a white passing person. Our white skin and appearance mean we are favored by society over our families in soooooo many ways more than we can fathom or imagine even when we try to grasp it. We don’t have to be afraid of cops in the same way as our family members do. I don’t know what it’s like to actually be adopted, but people have assumed that I am more often than not. 

We have many of the same privileges and possibly even some of the same challenges as white-looking people in black families, but racially we are not the same. You also have different challenges than me a person who was transracially adopted, but you have different privileges as a white person too. I think these differences are extremely important for you to understand when looking at how you engage with black culture. It’s a part of your family and your cultural upbringing, but it’s not your race, which is something that goes beyond skin color when it comes to being black in the US.

From a young age, my mom made sure I knew that I was biracial black, and that has been a part of my heritage and life experience in terms of who I am knowing that my white passing privileges can be stripped away any time because I’m not actually white. I proudly choose to identify as biracial even when it means people laughing at me not believing it because it’s not something I can change - it’s who I was born as.

You were born the way you are too, and like I’ve said you also have your own and unique experiences because of that. And unfortunately, you’re in very very difficult to navigate waters as a result of it all. I wish I could tell you the best way to navigate that and where are the “lines” are, but truthfully I don’t know because I don’t know exactly what or how your grandma taught you or what her thoughts are on the whole ancestry aspect. I don’t fully know how cultural appropriation applies in the complex situation of transracial adoption. That’s why I put so much emphasis just now on the race piece - the one thing I do know, is that regardless of everything else, you are white. 

So while I may not be able to give exact advice about what to do or what not to do, I strongly urge you to remember that and understand that your identity and life experience, as well as your connection to these traditions and culture, is fundamentally different than it is for us black folks. You don’t have a birthright to it in the way that we do, yet it is a part of your family traditions and culture. I don’t know what that means for you, but I do think that it’s essential for you to try to understand as much as possible as you figure out what to do going forward.

I hope this helps, and I also urge you to listen to what other black folks have to say if anyone else weighs in on it. Please do NOT listen to the opinions of anyone who isn’t black about this matter… they really don’t get a say about it.

[lxtreme]

If you're a white or other non-black who claims to be #teamversatile, but with black guys, you only bottom,...I'M TALKING TO YOU! If you're a white or other non-black who goes to #sexparties, and treat blacks like their good enough to suck (your dick), but not good enough to fuck your ass or your dick,...I'M TALKING TO YOU! If you're a white or other non-black who will have sex with a black person, but never actually date a black person...BITCH! I AM TALKING TO YOU!!! #sexualracism #racism #racisminthegaycommunity #gay #whiteprivilege #whiteentitlement #whitepassing #sociallyacceptable #colorism