A Lament For Mixed Kids: Understanding America Through The Erasure of Its Bi-Racial Citizens

The trajectory of mixed race people in the U.S. is both complicated and revealing, but if you want to know the true story of a country, you must look to those whose existence it has tried to erase.

Portrait of a mixed-race family (Getty Images)

I didn’t know I was Black for a long time. 

Having spent my early childhood in Atlanta, everyone in my life was Black. My teachers, doctors, neighbors, the rich people up the block, and the poor ones on the corner. I was delivered in a Black-ass Atlanta hospital by Black doctors who were Morehouse College men…