Mind the Gap: Mixed-race mindsetPosted in Articles, Autobiography, Media Archive, Passing, United States on 2017-03-16 01:32Z by Steven |
Mind the Gap: Mixed-race mindset
The Tufts Daily
Medford, Massachusetts
2017-03-14
MJ Greigo
Most strangers who pass me on the street think I’m white. I don’t blame them for this, as I’m pale as hell. I got some sort of mid-point of my parents’ genes: my obviously brown father and my paper-white mom, his black hair and her light brown, her 5-foot-7-inches and his 6-foot-4-inches. Growing up, I got so tan in the summers, and I brought in Nana Griego’s homemade tortillas for show and tell. My friends joked about how I loved burritos and that I was like a maid. The confusion of childhood takes a lifetime to unpack, and I find myself looking back with terror on things that I couldn’t have understood at the time. Yet without fully knowing about their repercussions, these tiny moments come together to form a huge part of the way everyone sees the world…
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