Being mixed race is even harder than being black?

Question

I was born to a white mother and a black father. I have always identified with the Afro-Caribbean side of my ethnicity despite growing up in a white environment with many white friends and my white mother, and would describe myself as a young, light skinned black man. This is due me being seen as black (and different) by whites.

However, since moving to a black area, I've realised that I'm not really accepted by blacks either. I'm constantly at the end of racial jokes by my black friends.

My point is, while mixed race people suffer from the same things black people do, the fact that blacks regard them as different means that they have no sense of belonging to turn to. Personally, I hate being mixed race and wish I was one colour. What do you guys think?

Answer 1

The only thing I see you as is racist.

Answer 2

First... get off the pitty pot. I'm mixed afro-puerto rican so i know what you are talking about to an extent. but by you saying that you hate being mixed and want to be one color you are forsaking one side or the other. so if you had the choice right now which side of the family would you rather not have? which side would you like to do with out.. your beautiful mother or father? if the question seams intolerent its because it is. you are being intolerant of yourself. you CAN NOT let other define the man you are.

Power is the ability to create a reality and make others feel as if it is their own.

That's what those people are doing to you. they say a few jokes and then you feel sorry for yourself. it's not like you are finding burning crosses on ur front lawn they're just jokes. trust me i know the jokes hurt, i've been there. but no amount of jokes are going to make me hate being mixed.

One of the reasons they may make fun of you is because you grew up in a white environement.. they can sense that. they can sense that you arent quite the same as them and that should be ok with you. maybe your friends are ignorant and want you to "act black". there is a whole host of reason for them crackin jokes about you, crack some back! lol.

Personally i dont think that mixed people have it harder, whites accept mixed men and women more often than they accept men and women who are darker and always have been. during slavery they breeded light skin men and women because they thought they were beautiful.

So please.. adjust the way you see yourself, hold your head up high, and never let another man or woman have power over you.

Answer 3

Hey,

So true...listen...I'm Azn/ Blk mix grew up in an all white environment and have had similar experiences through out life. My cousin is full Caribbean and had similar experiences. Race doesn't make a difference...it's CULTURE...you could have been one race and experienced the same thing as long as you are different.

Answer 4

Yes, I understand.

I am mixed with a lot of things through the generations.

However, I am mainly black and native american.

The road is not easy for black indians.

Some black people do not accept me because I have long wavy hair.

Some indian people do not accept me because my skin is reddish BROWN and I am of black heritage.

We griffes were often confused with mulattos in historical periods.

Sometimes I feel sort of strange being a mixed-blood. (not biracial, but I am still really mixed)

Lynn "Smokey" Hart was born to a black father and a Yankton Sioux mother. He says that when he goes to reservations, people see him as black. But when he is among blacks, people see him as indian.

Radmilla Cody was born to a fullblooded Navajo mother and a black father. Her maternal uncle called her a black pig. Her mother considered giving her away. But it was her grandmother who raised her and reminded her that she was beautiful. When she won Miss Navajo, some Navajo people jeered at her.

One guy even said that she looks black, should focus on her African-American heritage and stay out of Navajo affairs.

I was born to a Black Cherokee father and a Black Tuscarora-Navajo mother. The Cherokee Nation recently revoked the rights of the black freedmen. White men put them down on the rolls as freedmen (cherokee slaves), even if some of them were black indians. I could choose to go off the deep end and call myself 'black' alone. But that would be denying all of who I am. My ancestors survived the Trail of Tears. And when I look in the mirror, I see two different races staring back at me. The Black Indian I see is ME!

Most of this, I'm sure you well know, is contributed to the fact that white slaves masters declared the 'one-drop rule', stating that if a person has any traceable amount of black blood, they can no longer be considered white, and therefore, they are black, PERIOD.

My family did not buy into such foolishness. Despite what the world sees me as, I know who I am.

Hold your head high, and be proud of your multi-ethnic heritage. I wish you nothing but the best.

Answer 5

So what if you are white or black that is not really matter the important is you know how to enteract to the other person.I think you just insecure person don't hate being mixed race be content of who you are. I think you are so insecured you don't know if your friends envy your skin just remember we are all special in our own way.

Answer 6

Part Black people do have a hard time being excepted by "full" blacks. You're viewed as "not black enough to be one of them." I've had the same problem. You can identify yourself as white if you'd like. You're perfectly in the right to do so. No one can embrace one part of their heritage and not the other. I haven't suffered really any racism from white people and I grew up in a very rich white town.

Answer 7

"Being mixed race is even harder than being black?"

How is it hard to be Black?...

I am 30, and Black, and NEVER HAD a HARDSHIPS.
There IS NOTHING HARD when you are Black, it is just your individual lazyness.

Answer 8

I love being mixed race. I am half black and half American Indian. I cannot help nor would I change it even if I could. I will kick anyone's a@# who has a problem with it. People are people and we are all humans. Let's get over this racism crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 9

Since there are more and more mixed race people being born, soon they will have their own community... or I at least hope so.

Answer 10

Have you thought about maybe changing your name?

"Giving a child a super-black name would seem to be a black parent's signal of solidarity with her community—the flip side of the 'acting white' phenomenon. White parents, meanwhile, often send as strong a signal in the opposite direction. More than 40 percent of the white babies are given names that are at least four times more common among whites."

Answer 11

I agree with you and thats why i personally believe that mixed race relationships dont work too well. You'll find where you feel most comfortable soon.