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Being mixed
What y’all think about being mixed?
One of my closest girl friends proudly says that she’s racist, like: “our country was so nice before other races came here.” The thing is, I’m mixed — my father is West Asian, and we naturally have thinner eyes and tanned skin.
She reposted some corny TikTok video that said something like “don’t mix your snow with dirt,” and I reached out to her saying likeee that’s not very nice.
She was like, “Oh no, I don’t mean YOU and your ethnicity, it’s about Arabs and Indians. Why are you offended?”
Growing up, I always felt awkward for not fitting in. My last name is long, my name isn’t local, but I’m very proud of my father and I don’t think it’s something I should be ashamed of.
That’s crazy that she’s comparing white people to snow as if their history and body is pure, and people of color to dirt like melanin is dirty and we taint the linage. Before “other” races came here (assuming other is just anyone not white), white people BROUGHT them here during the transatlantic slave trade. idk what time frame is “befo...... reply
