Please Don’t Refer to Me as “Half” Black
<p>Growing up as the child of an interracial and interfaith marriage in the early 1990s and 2000s, there weren’t a lot of resources available to help me navigate those dynamics. It was a time where we were still promoting “color-blind” as our best anti-racist efforts. And so at that time, we also used to describe children like me as “half [blank]”. I would introduce myself as “half Black and half white” when asked my least favorite question (and<a href="https://www.jesswass.com/blog/how-to-combat-microaggressions-such-as-what-are-you" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"> microaggression </a>) “What are you?”. When I would tell people that I was also Jewish despite having a mother who was Catholic, they were quick to reply, “Oh so you’re only half Jewish”. Their response felt as if they were expressing a sigh of relief to themselves.</p>
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