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I have no regrets about having had children with an Asian woman. That was the only way I would have been blessed with the two perfect little humans that call me dad. I would be lying if I said it wasn’t challenging. I would be lying if I said I didn’t notice the side-eye some Black women gave me.

At the time, I fully accepted this conferred identity. With my acceptance came preparation (I’m a solid A-type). I was always prepared to list all the other ethnicities or races my ancestors had been if the topic came up. My great-grandmother on my mom’s side was Native American. My great grandmother on my dad’s side was Irish and so on.

It doesn’t matter how I personally feel about their need to pass the “paper bag test”. At the end of the day, they have themselves to answer to and I can’t spend too much of my energy judging their life choices. They have to make their way in the world as best they can just like the rest of us.

I’ve known more than one “mixed Black girl” (and one guy) who was passing for White. Well, passing to everyone who wasn’t Black. The type of person who only personally identify with Blackness after a few too many drinks. Or once they were out of the earshot of anyone who wasn’t Black. Or when it somehow advantaged them to confess their Blackness.

By the time I started High School I had willingly started to refer to myself as “mixed.” Something I picked up from my peers. In a way, it made logical sense. I wasn’t Black like they were used to and I wasn’t White so they decided I was mixed.

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I attended an affluent, majority-White elementary school. All my teachers were always White. The majority of my friends were White or Asian. Most of the few Black kids I went to school with were related to me. I learned to talk and in many ways act like an affluent White kid. It wasn’t until I got to middle school that the majority of students were people of color.

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If they ask me how I feel about their decision to pass for White, I’ll tell them the truth, but in the meantime, it’s not my job to live for them — no matter how embarrassed and ashamed I am for them. I will not demand anyone to identify as anything other than what they feel comfortable identifying as. But still, side-eye to the Racheal Dolezals.

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Imagine taking the time to list all of your ancestors’ ethnicities to a near stranger, forcing yourself to engage in the conversation when more often than not the person asking about your race likely has a monologue about race to share. And whatever it is they have to share is going to be racist as hell, but they are going to start by saying,

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These kids (not just the Black ones) fluently spoke a different dialect of English than I did. I could more or less code-switch (mostly less) but this is where my problem with my racial identity began. As far as a lot of these kids were concerned, I spoke White, acted White, and looked a little White. To them, I might as well be White or, maybe more accurately, I wasn’t Black like they were Black. They knew it, and I knew it, and we probably weren’t best friends because of it.

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