family heritage

thesiren72102
Sun, 18 Dec 2005 18:41:50 +0000

I claim my ancestory; I’m not ashamed of it, but it irritates me that whenever I tell a person I’m full African, they ask me whether I’m mixed, it’s as if people don’t think being African or just plain black is beautiful.

My mom, her brothers and sisters, and a lot of the people of her generation and earlier in West Africa (i’m first generation american) do not claim that side of them, because for many of them the blending between the european and african cultures happened as a result of rape.

They feel the injustice of it, so they try to keep it on the down low or to completely ignore it, until it is forgotten in the later generations or until it the european traits are completely recessive and rare within the lineage.