No, My Children Are Not Mixed
No one can tell my son he isn’t Black or Asian enough unless he lets them
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8 min readNov 13, 2020
After my grandmother heard me refer to my children as “mixed,” she asked, “Were you making a cake?”
She gazed at me with a grin on her face, her head cocked to the side, one hand on her hip. I knew that look. I had seen it all my life. She had just finished teaching…
