billierain:

I HAVE THE RIGHT…

• Not to justify my existence in this world.
• Not to keep the races separate within me.
• Not to justify my ethnic legitimacy.
• Not to be responsible for people’s discomfort with my physical or ethnic ambiguity.

I HAVE THE RIGHT…

• To identify myself differently than strangers expect me to identify.
• To identify myself differently than how my parents identify me.
• To identify myself differently than my brothers and sisters.
• To identify myself differently in different situations.

I HAVE THE RIGHT…

• To create a vocabulary to communicate about being multiracial or multi-ethnic.
• To change my identity over my lifetime—and more than once.
• To have loyalties and identification with more than one group of people.
• To freely choose whom I befriend and love.

© Maria P. P. Root, PhD

http://www.literanista.net/2009/10/bill-of-rights-for-people-of-mixed.html

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