[Patrice F.]

Multiracial-ness has nothing to do with skin color, because multiracial people come in every shade imaginable. It has to do with heritage and having the right to be proud of every heritage. Multiracial people are grouped into three categories: Biracial, Tri-racial and Multiracial. Monoracial people have parents of the same race. I’m often told by African Americans, ‘Well, we all are mixed.’ Which is true, but multiracial people are of first generation racial mixing. A biracial person has patterns of two different races. A tri-racial person has one monoracial parent and one biracial parent and a multiracial person has two biracial parents. We within the Multiracial movement want to break down the old slave system of the One Drop Rule, which is a myth that has dominated from slavery to the present, and give Multiracial people the right to state who they are without being placed within one racial category or the other. The goal is that one day we move past these categories and recognize each other as human beings. But that will not happen until we give mixed families – whose numbers continue to grow – the chance to love each heritage that created them and not be pigeonholed into racial categories based on their skin color or drop of blood.

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[Patrice F.]

I am a mixed race woman with a white multi/biracial daughter, and I am the moderator of MixedFamilies on egroups.com. You are right, others can claim all of their heritages, but it goes back to the “One Drop Rule,” which was used by slavemasters to keep black blood from ‘poisoning’ the white race. These were laws that were dismissed in most states. But the biggest proponents of the One Drop Rule seems to be blacks. I claim all of my heritages, and for that, I go through a lot. I get stared at, smirked at, rolling of the eyes, commented on, told I’m trying to be white, etc. I was told I was ashamed of being black. I’m not, but that only makes up a fourth of my heritage. I am culturally more connected to the white and Spanish side of my heritage. Then there’s the question of my daughter with white skin, blue eyes, blond hair and not a pinch of looking mixed at all. On her birth certificate, she is white. We are a mixed family; my cousins, aunts, siblings and my daughters’ father’s family is half black, he being all Irish, though.

America needs to wake up. On both sides, blacks and whites are still hung up on race, but it seems more intense for blacks, because for them a mixed person is as much of a threat as a white person. That mixed person has it made, I’ve heard it said. Sure we do! We’ve got blacks rolling their eyes at us trying to make us choose the black category only, and we have whites grabbing their purses when they see us, because to many whites, mixed people are black. Either you join the majority or you’re an enemy. You probably have so many problems because you went against the norm. Most mixed people date and have kids with black people, but you didn’t, and that’s why you go through what you do. Well, I’m glad my daughter is who she is, and that I loved the man I did. I’m glad I stand out, although sometimes it’s a very tough road, especially when you’re on display 24/7. But being mixed isn’t a crime, and loving your mate (despite his or her color) and your children is the only thing that matters.

Being proud of both heritages or more is just being appreciative of all the cultures and ancestors who created you and your children.

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