Adult
Letters
April through June, 2001
My Shoes is a forum where we can meet other multiracial individuals with a white appearance and express our thoughts and feelings.
Adult
Letters
April through June, 2001
My Shoes is a forum where we can meet other multiracial individuals with a white appearance and express our thoughts and feelings.
This page allows members and non-members to ask questions or comment on anything they wish related to the mission of the support group. Help the support group grow by talking to group members, by contributing to discussion topics, by sending your personal story, and by posting announcements on the bulletin board. Join us!
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Letters:
Name: an angel, email address not given
Subject: Barriers are not to be breaken, only accomplished.
Date: 06/22/01
Deanna Dwyer,
I am writing in response to your question. First off, stop worrying about your family and pray for your daughter and grand-daughter. When your family members decide that they are going to pitch in and provide milk, pampers, clothing, food, love and support then we'll address their concerns. Remember this if nothing else...GOD WOULD NEVER PUT MORE ON YOU THAN YOU CAN BARE. Your grandchild will bless you in more ways than one. Some people give advice without ever being in the situation. So my story goes like this... My 18 year old brother,refered to as my twin (he's born on March 8, 1981 and March 12, 1981)and were known as each others shadow, gets mixed up with a "white" girl, not just any "white" girl--- a girl who seemed to be very proud in admitting to my brother that her father was a member of the Klu Klux Klan. (Especially when things didn't go her way.) She'd tell him different ways that her father would have him killed. He run him off the road, shoot him down, blow his car up, hang him in the trees of his front yard, beat up so my mom couldn't recognize him. They didn't want anything to do with my niece. Decided that when she was born we could "pick her up from outside the house door and keep rollin--in other words DON'T COME IN!!! My mom and I watched,waited, and prepared to care for a new born the entire 9 months (which seemed like 3 years because we were so scared we'd get a call telling us that my brother's dead.)
To make a long story short, my niece is now 9 months old. After a month and 1/2 from the hospital my mother and I picked her up and took her home..to our house! I entered her in a baby pagent at her daycare and she won..MADE THE NEWSPAPER! Her other grandmother ( MRS. KKK "and proud of it")came to visit and saw the big show my family put own for her. She decides that she'd be back to pick her up tomorrow and discuss who she'd live with. Ofcourse her now cute grandbaby went home with her.My brother buys ALL of her clothes. ALL of her shoes, pays daycare -takes her and I pick her up-, provides her medical issurance (Her other daughter on medicare), he does everything. CHRISTMAS $700.00 (FOR A4 MONTH OLD), THANKSGIVING, EASTER, AND EVEN VALENTINES DAY..her mother wears the earrings and her sister wears the necklace... but still my brother does EVERYTHING!!
We are in a custody battle right now...AS I TYPE!!!!!!!!!
SHAMAR MOORE,VICTORIA ROWLES, TIGER WOODS,LENNIE KRAVITZ,LISA BONET,THANDIE NEWTON AND OFCOURSE MARIAH CAREY ARE ALL BI-RACIAL!! Note these are celebrities.....I'm sorry SUCCESSFUL CELEBRITIES!
So don't you break the barrier, just sit back and wait on your grandbaby to do it for him/her self!!!
I am 20 years old and I know the entire Lion King movie! My mothers 51 years old and she runs, jumps, and even rode a four wheeler-by herself- just yesterday. Enjoy ever minute you have with your grandbaby, forget about them.
Oh yeah, My family are suppose to be strong APOSTOLICS. My aunt decided that for the family reunion that my niece could be included in the count for my grandparentts great grandchildren because she wasn't suppose to be here. My brothers married, in the army, and works to jobs to care for his family. Both her daughter have "all black" babies for someone elses husband. AND OFCOURSE MY HALF WHITE NIECE IS THE CUTEST AND VERY WELL CARED FOR.
God WILL BLESS you and your family.
(Moderator's Note: To find Deann's question, select "your
question" above and scroll to 3/19/99.)
Attention all Myshoers (is that the correct plural form?),
Myshoes is back online and needs your participation! Let's make this the vibrant community that it ought be. From personal experience, I can say that I've greatly enjoyed meeting (i.e. chatting) with other members.
Come join other members at: http://clubs.nbci.com/myshoeschat/index.lhtml
So far, meethings have been set for each Thursdays @ 9pm-11pm eastern time.
I know I have a lot to say and if you've made this far to Myshoes I imagine you have a lot to say, so let's get interactive and such and get all the thoughts and feelings you have cooped up inside out where others can actually understand and empathize with you.
I hope to see there! Spread the word!
Calling all young women of color 13-30 for an upcoming anthology. Poetry,
spoken word, prose, journal entries, essays, autobios, etc. welcome. Please
email me for the full submission guidelines.
Hello everyone! To those people here that have curly hair,is ur hair
hard or easy to keep? I was thinking of getting a perm in my hair to make
it go curly coz my hair is straight! Do u think that it would mess my hair
up or not? Can someone e-mail me the answer....thanx,easy,natalie!
> i am norihisa from japan, japanese . > i am interested in biracial and then i found this page > i like biracial(black and white) lady,because they are most beautiful. > anyway, i want to married with lady like you. > > i don`t still understand how serious about race in US because > in japan almost people are yellow. > > > i am shy and introverted but i do my best at communicate with you. > anyway, hope to hear from you soon. > norihisa
this is my letter to one biracial lady but i want to send this mail
to all biracial lady in the world.. (this biracial lady also suggest me
to comment on this section) please mail me i surely reply you.
I've spent several hours reading the stories posted on this web site and can say that each one brings back personal memories long forgotten only to be replaced with new experiences. It seems that most of the ndividuals on this site are first or second generation bi-racial offsprings giving the illusion that this is a relatively new issue...just as new as the term bi-racial. I don't particularly like the term bi-racial. Past terms throughout the centuries included griffes, briques, mulattoes, quadroons, octoroons and several more. To the White society they all have or had the same meaning...not pure.
I've always known that my heritage stemed from the Creole culture. Growing up however, that just added one more question from inquisitive people asking me "What are you?" When they receive my answer "Creole" I usually get asked "What's that?" It is a very difficult question to answer even today. Creole is not identified as a race...only a culture. Asking older family members for a defination only compounded the issue due to their perceptions on the subject as it applied to them. Some lived their life passing for White while others identified with African American. Meanwhile, I had to deal with it the best I could. Dealing with it led me to researching my family history which has helped me answer many questions. I currently have documented 4 generations of Creole ancestors. The real comfort came from the history associated with my ancestors who were Louisiana Gens de couleur (People of Colour). Of course there are more unanswered secrets then there are answers.
"The Browning of America" started long, long ago and it will continue
for many generations to come. The process, however, is young. With it's
youth comes the problems we face every day. Personally, at age 46, I can
say that being of several races is a source of pride.
I am so glad I found this site! I am a filipino/white college female
who looks white, latina, american indiaiand, hawaiina..etc..etc. Basically.
I am doing two reserach p[rojects about he adolescent identity developement
of biracial females. What i want to know is HOW HAS RACISM AFFECTED THE
IDENTITY DEVELOPEMTN (AM SENSE OF WHO I AM) OF BIRCIALS. Id love to her
what you all have to say. Thanks so much
I need current email addresses for the following members so that I can send to them some important information:
Eleonore Dennis, Melissa Lewis, Michelle Childers, Harold Thomas, Jacqueline Booth, Jerry Redmond, Brandi Faux, Erika Valentin, Yvonne Johnson, Sarah Kominski, Carol Zwiebach-Sherman, Randy T, Jessica Lake, Angel, Babette Simon, Hank Thomas, Becky Egan, Kim, Lidia, Marion Williams, Martina Villarreal, Kellie, Miguel Yanez, Tasha Wilker, Cee-Cee, Julia Cummings, Kelly Murphy, Leesa, Lorenzo Gonzalez, M.A., Marie Recupero, Melissa C, Mitch, Moe Green, Lesli, Elaine, Ordania Ward, Tish Smithson, Crystall Oxendine, CrisTina Sierra-Mundo, Crysall Hall, Vickie Jackson.
If you request that I not place your email address with your personal
story, I will retain it in my confidential files.
My little boy is biracial (white/black)...I am white and raising him around my all-white family. The other day, he called a black boy "chocolate" and was talking meanly to him. I was extremely upset with him because racial prejudice makes me sick. The irony in it was that my son thought he was so different from that boy, when, in reality, he is half black himself. We live far away from any of my son's black relatives. I asked my son if he knew his daddy looked like that boy he was calling "chocolate", and he said, "yes, but I'm white like you, Mommy."
Any suggestions on how to handle explaining my son's identity to him
the the next time this issue comes up? My white parents think he is completely
white, too.
I appreciate the website and what it has to offer biracial and multi-racial individuals, but why is the site spacifically for biracial individuals with a WHITE appearance. Many half white, half african american children and adults have very african american features, without the light skin and "good" hair, but that doesn't make them any less in need of support because they too suffer from the same rude remarks and questions about their heritage. This site should be in support of all multi-cultural individuals regardless of what they look like.
(Moderator's Note: This may be the only support group for multiracial individuals with a white appearance. Some of our issues are unique. "White appearance" includes both physical and behavioral characteristics. There are other support groups for multiracial individuals who do not have a white appearance. (See the Bulletin Board section at this site and scroll to Links for a listing.)