After viewing many of
the videos and reading many of the comments on various website about Soledad O'Brien’s “Who is Black in America?”, I have seen more of the same old negativity
that cause so much distress among biracial (light-skinned) people in past
decades. These videos and the comments have influence the following
response.
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Jealousy and resentment causes nothing and twisted perceptions.
Biracial (light-skinned) people need to be more acceptance of WHO they are and
love themselves AS they are and not allow comparisons from racists influence
them. In addition, there are Black racists as well as White racists, and biracial
people have always been their excuse and medium of abusive when their own self-doubts
about whom they are and their place in the world arises
In the eyes of people like these, biracial people will
always be too “uppity” and will never know their “place”. Old thinking for today,
but as it persists on both ends of the color tree. Biracial people need to open
their eyes and see what is really being sold to them when they are told (no
matter how sweetly or rationally) to choose. They should also stop selling their
heritage short. To suppress one part of their racial makeup is to say the part
is “no good”. Is this true? I think not, or they would not exist. This denial
of their whole heritage has causes nothing but hurt to the racial halves that are
shunned to please the undeserving “others”. This is not only bad thinking it is unhealthy
thinking. Seriously, do biracial (light-skinned) people really feel that to be
themselves they need the approval from people who are dishing out nothing more
than racial bias?
What I am seeing here today is an attempt at brainwashing and
I am not buying it. Moreover, as a light-skinned woman of sixty plus I can say,
“Get off my back! Accept me or not, but stop labeling me. Stop trying to use my
skin color as an excuse for your own insecurities. I will not dishonor one part
of my racial heritage to gratify your bias views. If I make you uncomfortable,
see a shrink, because I am not trying to make you comfortable with my SKIN.
I AM BIRACIAL, LIGHT-SKINNED,
AND PROUD!
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