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Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People
By Maria P.P. Root

I HAVE THE RIGHT…

-Not to justify my existence in this world. 
-Not to keep the races separate within me. 
-Not to be responsible for people’s discomfort with my physical ambiguity. 
-Not to justify my ethnic legitimacy.

I HAVE THE RIGHT…

-To identify myself differently than strangers expect me to identify.
-To identify myself differently from how my parents identify me.
-To identify myself differently from my brothers and sisters.
-To identify myself differently in different situations.

I HAVE THE RIGHT…

-To create a vocabulary to communicate about being multiracial.
-To change my identity over my lifetime — and more than once.
-To have loyalties and identification with more than one group of people.
-To freely choose whom I befriend and love

[Maria P. P. Root, PhD, is author of
“The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier”
which you can purchase through Interracial Voice and Amazon.com]

http://www.mixedfolks.com/rights.htm

11:45 pm  •  13 June 2012  •  78 notes