Black Woman, White Skin
Posted on February 29th, 2008 by TheFourEyes
Her parents were black, but she looks white. Kenosha Robinson on trying to figure out where she fits in.
Despite my efforts, I was still mistaken for a white girl. So I established myself with an entirely different group-the class clowns. I ridiculed myself as a way of pre-empting comments from others, joking about “not being too white to whup your butt!” Other times, I kidded about being just white enough to “claim kidnapping” if my black friends and I ever got pulled over for speeding. But underneath, it was the same old story: I was actually afraid to look at myself in the mirror. (READ MORE)
