Some multiracial people get to hear how some other people really feel...

[jesse_sgirl]

Didn’t we all learn about this from Cher in the 70’s?

[ucbalumnus]

@CALSmom

I bet if any of the posters on this thread that say they’re white were to take a 23andme test they would find they probably have black ancestry
My son took this test and it traced black ancestry back to my white husband’s side.

Actually, 23andMe has a page on this very subject, linking to a journal article:
https://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/history-written-in-our-dna/
http://www.cell.com/ajhg/abstract/S0002-9297%2814%2900476-5

@23andMe

Among her findings were that about 3.5 percent of self-identified European Americans have at least 1 percent or more African Ancestry. It’s likely that many of these Americans, who describe themselves as white, may be unaware of their African ancestry, which in many cases goes back between five to ten generations. There are also differences regionally – with the highest levels in the South – so that in South Carolina, at least 13 percent of self-identified whites have 1 percent or more African ancestry, while in Louisiana the number is a little more than 12 percent. In Georgia and Alabama the number is about 9 percent.

[OHMomof2]

And there is nothing holding any ethnic person back from moving into (or up to) other neighborhoods.

Not universally true.

Seems like it was about what her birth certificate said about her race, which she discovered when applying for a US passport

Correct as counties (or cities? I was not born in the US so mine is from the state dept) issue BCs and the federal government issues passports.

[shkodra14]

I’m Albanian (white) but my Mediterranean skin tone (that my siblings did not inherit so they never get this trouble) makes people guess I’m anything but white. You have no idea how many times people have said “how sad it is that she doesn’t speak spanish” even though I’m not hispanic and both my first & last name are clearly Albanian.

I hear plenty of racist stuff about whites (from non-whites, of course), all the fricking time.

[CALSmom]

@ucbalumnus interesting…that scenario describes my son’s results
@shkodra14 that’s unfortunate

[kandcsmom]

@shkodra14 I’m Maltese and Italian, I get “how sad it is she doesn’t speak Spanish, and Arabic”