Yeah I Have Light Skin - Tumblr Posts
2 years ago
listen idk i feel like the whole 'white passing' poc thing is just. its weird ok? it erases the person's identity, and even if they are mixed they're still a poc.
ive been told im white passing and yet i still had to put up with racism in fucking elementary school. some kids would make fun of mandarin in front of me, and one even told me i'd be his gardener one day. i was too young to understand what he meant.
even if someone seems white passing they can still undergo racism. distancing a poc from their identity and invalidating their struggles does nothing but divide a community.
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idk if this makes sense
i dont even feel like im fully qualified to talk abput this even though logically i am i just. damn
I was made fun of for my hairy arms and brow
my religion practices and my culture
yet I’m told by white people im not white and by Mexican people I’m not Mexican??
yeah I have light skin
I’m mixed Mexican and Mizrahi
I look super white but am literally 0% European