#ykumw

[youknowyouremixedwhen]

You know you're mixed when you desperately want to connect with your culture but don't know how to because you're surrounded by white people literally all the time.

#198

[youknowyouremixedwhen]

You know you're mixed when ppl are like "you're not black" and you're like "well I ain't white either so like?"

#200

[youknowyouremixedwhen]

you know you are mixed when "but you aren't really black" is something that you hear constantly.

#196

[youknowyouremixedwhen]

You know you're mixed when one sister looks like Merida from Brave and the other looks like Moana

#201

[youknowyouremixedwhen]

You know you're mixed when you're thankful as hell that you managed to unlearn and outgrow your mother's blatantly racist viewpoints and your father's internalized anti-blackness.

#197

[youknowyouremixedwhen]

you know you're mixed when your white mother calls you exotic for being being half mexican

#199

[youknowyouremixedwhen]

You know you're mixed when both of your parents are mixed, so they think the whole family lives in a post-racial bubble, but that is so far from the truth.

#195

[youknowyouremixedwhen]

You know you're mixed when you have random bouts of imposter syndrome when it comes to one of your lines of ancestry that you identify with. (It suuuuuuuucks.)

#194