‘Michael, You’re Black’: Coming to Terms With My Mixed Identity
Acknowledging my history helped me lower my family’s smoke screens
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6 min readJul 21, 2020
“Michael, you’re Black.”
This statement of sheer fact made me turn away in frustration and embarrassment. For 10 minutes, a Black girl in my class and I had engaged in a conversation about my ethnicity — a topic I eagerly…
