I love this!

Full blog post here.

5. You feel mild guilt over not identifying with one of your cultures (i.e. you hate the food).

6. You feel awkward during get-togethers with one side of the family because you look nothing like your other family members.

7. Men (or women) use your questionable ethnicity as a means to hit on you.

9. You can’t understand your grandparents’ language.

10. There is an undeniable clashing of cultures whenever the two sides of your family meet.

11. Your grandparents initially disapproved of your parents’ union.

12. Similar to a “gay-dar,” you’ve developed a “multiracial-radar.”

15. You’ve lied about your ethnicity in the past just for the hell of it, or to avoid conversation.

16. Your last name doesn’t really look like it belongs to you.

17. You’ve been criticized for not being [insert ethnicity here] enough, or speaking [insert language here] well enough.

It’s been mixed-race week recently. Or something.

First, the New York Times had a piece on January 30th entitled “Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above”

Then on February 4th, Colorlines, a great magazine from the US that talks about race and racism, resistance and culture, responds with “A ‘Mixed-Race’ Nation Isn’t the Same as a Post-Race One”

If you can, please read both those pieces first.

Oh, and on Feb 14, a book review I wrote, for the book “Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out” was published at rabble.ca.

Let’s start at the beginning.

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Well, this was a lovely story to greet me in my Facebook newsfeed this morning. Not.

NEW ORLEANS – A white Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.

Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.

“I’m not a racist. I just don’t believe in mixing the races that way,” Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. “I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else.”

Bardwell said he asks everyone who calls about marriage if they are a mixed race couple. If they are, he does not marry them, he said.

I mean, not only is he a supreme racist doofus, he’s hit at least 6 squares on Stupid White Folks Bingo. Now that’s just not fair!

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