Del
PonderHELLO MY NAME IS DEL IM 40 SINGLE MALE
FROM NEW YORK NOW ATLANTA GA. MY
PERSONAL STORY SHOULDNT COME AS A SHOCK
TO ANY OF THIS GROUPS MEMBERS IM BIRACIAL
FATHER WHITE (ITALLIAN AND
GERMAN)MOTHER AFRICAN AMERICAN. I GREW
UP IN BROOKLYN NEW YORK THE BED-STUY
SECTION PRIMARILY AT THAT TIME ALL BLACK
SECTION AS A KID GROWING UP THERE ME AND
MY BROTHER WHOSE ALSO BIRACIAL SAME
MOTHER DIFFERENT DAD HIS FATHER WAS FROM
IRELAND(WHITE), DEALT WITH THE RACISM OF
THE WHITES AND BLACKS BEING JUMPED ON
(BEATIN UP DAILY) BY THE KIDS IN OUR SCHOOL
BECAUSE OF OUR SKIN COMPLEXION,TAUTED
BEING CALLED WHITEY,CRACKER,AND THE
WHITE SECTION TREATED US ALSO THE SAME
WAY BUT THE OPPOSITE THIS TIME HALFBREED
MUTT ETC.BUT ONLY BEING EXCEPTED BY THE
PUERTO RICANS ONLY BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT
WE WERE P.R THE ABUSE WAS SO BAD THAT AT
THE AGE OF 10 I WAS CONFUSED AND
EMBARASSED BECAUSE OF WHAT I AM AND
ALSO BEING SPANK(WHIPPINGS)FROM MY
GRANDMOTHER WHO RAISED ME AND MY
BROTHER TO CONVINCE US WE ARE BLACK NOT
TO EXCEPT THE WHITE SIDE OF OUR RACE.THE
POINT TO THIS STORY AND THE SAD ENDING TO
THIS IS WE HAD TO FIGHT TO GAIN RESPECT
PHYSICALY AND MENTALLY.AS THE YRS
PROGRESSED I ACCEPTED MY BIRACIALITY. THE
WHITE AND THE BLACK SIDE AND NOT DENINING
MY FATHER AND MY MOTHERS RACE.