What’s it like to be multiracial in America

[rebel with a cause]

An interesting video on MSNBC that have families telling their experiences. None of them are the same as my family, but then my children are adults now. Anyway, maybe this will help some people understand how life experiences are different for those with more than one culture to chose (positive) or be rejected by (negative), whichever the experience is.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24765917/

[Swamp Rat]

1. GREAT!

:)

edit: except when someone burns a cross on your lawn or tries to run you down with their pick-up truck.

[rebel with a cause]

5. Don't you know it.

A friend of my then husband left a note in our car that was a threat from the KKK. Thouht it was a great joke. He was laughing when I told him I had turned it into the police and they were fingerprinting it and such. Some people (not my sisters) seemed to think that it was okay for him to do this, but I just don't have what I use to call "red neck humor". I wonder what Jeff Foxworthy would think of this, whether this is funny or not.

[shanti]

2. broken link

n/t

[rebel with a cause]

3. Sorry about that.!

I went back and fixed it.

[IndianaJones]

4. its gotta be awesome. nt.

[rebel with a cause]

6. The positives are awesome.

The negatives are sometimes scary and sometimes heartbreaking. I guess it depends on where you live and the support system you have.

[IndianaJones]

8. you get the best of both worlds. nt.

[Lady-Damai]

7. The last family is getting it right.

Teaching their kids about both cultures. I hope in the future ppl will be more understanding to ppl with different racial backgrounds.

[rebel with a cause]

10. I taught my children about both of their cultures.

The problem is that some people in the one culture call them the "N" word and some people in the other culture call them "Greigo". It is hard to fit in when you just don't. My kids use to ask me what culture they belonged to, and I would tell them that "we belong to our culture". They have accepted that now and see themselves as unique individuals who live inbetween two cultures.

[Lady-Damai]

12. What's a Greigo?

[RethugAssKicker]

9. The BEST.... You are so much wiser... because you

truly (or should) understand both sides.

[madokie]

11. I love my varied ethnic background

let me see, theres English, German, Polish, Cherokee, Irish and French in that order. My great grandparents were slave owners while their son, my granddad, fought as a union soldier to free those slaves. I love me and who I am.