Between Here and There
Recently I have been told that someone who at one time I considered to be my best friend referred to me as being the N-word. While this not only hurt me, it also disappointed me because I truly believed this person to be somewhat educated. So , I want to school him on a few things so that the next time he feels the urge to refer to me by a name that is totally irrelevant to my ethnicity, he might think twice. Being of a multicultural mix, I have been called many names, some flattering and some not so flattering. And while having to deal with the ignorance of certain people on a daily basis, I have to keep in mind that nobody knows how to identify me. Unlike what you’re familiar with, the idea of interracial families and mixed-race people is still foreign to many of my peers, and lets be honest here, mixing of the races is still somewhat taboo in the United States regardless of progression. Identifying mixed-race people for the...