Question for biracial people?
I am a biracial female (black/white) and I was wondering if anyone else has experienced some of the same things I have. Sometimes I feel like i'm not excepted by either race. For example I'm too black for white people but yet i'm too white for black people. I was wondering if anyone else feels the same way? Not all people are like this, but I feel most comfortable around other black or biracial people. I also have heard that most biracial men don't have this same experience. So I guess what i'm asking is has this happened to other biracial people? And how did you go about dealing with this situation? Thanks for all your time! Only appropriate answers please :)
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I'm not so biracial (mostly black/white/Indian) that it's noticeable physically, but growing up was still tough because personality wise (which is our makeup from experience) acceptance was not acceptance. I was not "ghetto" was not "preppy" was not this or was not that. My light skin automatically made people assume I was mixed, which I am, but I mostly say I'm just African American...or Afro American.
But growing up, a lot of people are discovering their identity and acceptance is always most desire but hardest to obtain. If you don't have the right hair, or the right makeup, or the right clothes, or even the right crowd. Socially this has caused me to just become a big lover of everything and everyone. But acceptance is hard for everyone. My family was not like father's side white or mother's said black...so I am limited to what I can relate to with other biracial/multiracial people.
But if the no one else accepts me, I will be the first to accept myself.
Where there is only a few black humans, they will be perceived as black, till the white mum or dad is noticeable. Where black humans are usual, it is been my enjoy regardless that that if nobody sees the white mum or dad they truthfully simply anticipate he is mild skinned.