I really don't know

I really don’t know

notforyoutobreak:

curlyingenue:

who are all these mixed-race people that have had bad experiences with black people? My brother and I were talking about this a while back. It’s never come up for us and no black person we have met or known has ever tried to say we were anything but black. I’m genuinely intrigued about these other experiences because for both me and my siblings, we’ve never had that type of stuff. So to any of you that have I’m not the best person to ask or relate to with that.

The only “bad experiences with black people” I had was back when I was a proud, self-proclaimed “oreo.” It was warranted because I was an asshole. Otherwise, I really haven’t had any.

The only time that I’ve ever experienced bad things with black people was in elementary school, when I’d get picked on incessantly because my parents weren’t the same color or various other arbitrary things that children pick on others for. But I got the same treatment from people of all colors, so I never looked at it as “black people are mean,” I saw it as “mean people are dicks.”

That being said, I question other biracial people who say they’ve had bad experiences with black people, not because I think they are untrue, but because I think there’s probably a reason other then “the black people are mean and don’t accept me” as to why the person received bad treatment. It almost always leads back to someone exerting a sense of superiority over black people, whether it was conscious or not.

I have a biracial friend who got teased and picked on by black people all through school. It wasn’t just because he’s biracial though, it was also because he was trans, gay, and an anime nerd who cosplayed 24/7. We also grew up in a town that was predominantly white which means a lot of racism and a lot of internalized racism. My friend was also adopted by an all white family, and with all of that combined he grew up hating the colour of his skin, wanting to be white, and being afraid of and racist towards black people. It’s definitely a part of the racist and divided culture that we live in where the media is pushing whiteness as beauty and harmful stereotypes and where racist behaviour is accepted. Add in other variables like sexual orientation, gender, or even hobbies and you get huge convoluted mess. Not only within the black community but also the GSM community and the nerd community. Race is a big deal in these communities that is a lot of times ignored. As with most cultural problems, it isn’t as simple as black people vs biracial people, there are so many variables and facets to an even bigger problem.

(via raging-liberal-hard-on)