(((I Will Outlive)))

9.10.15

Biden: So many people who have losses as severe or maybe worse than mine and don’t have the support I have, I feel self-conscious. The loss is serious and it’s consequential, but there are so many other people going through this.

I love Joe ❤️

Anyway this is why I keep saying that people refuse to be normal about the idea of mixed race people and interracial relationships and communities happening and creating children.

I am black and black only until it is convenient to call me white. And it doesn't matter that I'm also native because I'm too black to be native anyway. I've talked about being multi-racial and having even further racial mixing in my extended family since I made this blog in 2014 but that doesn't matter if any of my racial mix can be used as a weapon against me.

Y'all complain about the stereotype of the tragic mulatto without understanding why that stereotype exists in the first place.

I think it was Hafu (Japanese documentary about its mixed race population) but I always liked a quote from this Japanese/Korean guy in which he says he is not half but both.

I'm not part anything. I am all three. I am not half (a third). I am both (all of them). There is no such thing as half a person. I am not only partially allowed to acknowledge my people.

All of them are my people.

Followers helped me find this quote 🩷

ID: "I am not 'half Japanese' and 'half Lithuanian Jewish." When I'm singing a Japanese folk song, I don't sing with half my voice, but with my whole voice. When I'm taping together my grandparents' Jewish marriage contract, worn by time but still resilient, it's not half of my heart that is moved, but my whole heart.

I am complete, and I embody layers of identities that belong together. I am made of layers, not fractions."

-Yumi Tomsha

Poem 'Half-Caste' by John Agard:

Im taking a nap

Koushiro visits the grave from his real parents. There was a drama cd track that mentioned that fact…