I wonder why people feel like they have the right to ask me about my personal life. I don't know how many times a day I am asked, "Who are you? Where are you from? What are you mixed with?" My replies to those people are, "Why do you care where I'm...
"The way of the world is full of judgmental people. People size me up and down with their eyes. I am told that my hair is too curly to be white and too straight to be black. People ask me questions as if I owe them an answer—what does my race have anything to do with you—and why do you care? The fact is, race shouldn't exist—it is not real. It is made up, but race does matter." Race shouldn't matter, but it does. In society's eyes, race is stubbornly real."
-Charlena E. Jackson, Why are You Obsessed with My Race?
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