#I don't have access to the garb of my own culture but if I did have access to it | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

sirenium · 4 months ago

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that's what I'm saying! being biracial is such an isolating experience because your racial identity is not taken seriously no matter where you go. I'm black and white, and I look so obviously mixed that I cannot blend in anywhere. When I was younger I tried my damn near hardest to be white, but stuff like my hair would give me away. My skin color is very light, but not quite white passing since it's a little too colored for that. It sucks. It's a limbo between not feeling black enough and not being white enough either.

being biracial between white and poc will always be so alienating for me I don't relate to anyone. I don't quite fit in with whites but I don't quite fit in with people of color. been more white passing than the rest of my family doesn't help

#poc #biracial #biracial black person #indigenous #I'm not indigenous but OP is #it sucks that even when you wear cultural garb you are still just. seen as white #I don't have access to the garb of my own culture but if I did have access to it #I would probably just be written off as another Elisabeth Warren situation #and that's insulting because it's in my heritage #I have a right to celebrate my culture and if I knew what that was I would #but since I'm biracial and since I'm light skinned #I am not taken seriously as a black person #sorry for making this post about me it just hit so close to home

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