The Black Experience

Dear Ben Carson, 

Shame on you. 

And I say shame on you on behalf of the mixed children being raised in interracial families. I didn't realize that my parents had to give me "the black experience" in order to identify with my heritage. I didn't realize I needed to be raised to fit into a race box. I thought the goal was to just be a good human, or at the very least a functioning adult. 

My whole life I've heard that I'm 'too white','too black', 'not black enough' and even Korean (that's a true story). But now I know based on your experience of "real racism," I should just brush all of that off, because I'm not all black. 

I just didn't realize... 


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