I am back. Officially. tha Giant back at the liar. Back in the Stomping grounds. Back at in the sco. On my way here, in the airport out in NYC and i peeped Paula Patton on the front of Giant Mag. Lets start with Idlewild. One of my favorite movies. But, I fell in love on the spot.
The article was clean because it told the true story of an interracial couple. Ms Patton being biracial herself, struggled with presenting Thicke to her friends, as she tried to build herself up as a leader of the BSU at her high school, a vein which she continued at Howard. Being a biracial Black girl, she felt as if she would be seen as a sellout being with a white man. This is a unique struggle that I have seen first hand.
As a biracial person, you spend a good deal of your time battling to find you identity. For me that struggle lead me to a Black studies major and a very race concious perspective. As we dig around in the dark looking for ourselves, we look only to find who we are. This search makes one realize the limitations society tries to place on who we should love. With this being said, do I have to be the Obamas to be a model couple? the Thickes potentially provide another example. Im not saying one is better than the other, but we should all be able to make wtv choices we like, Black White Asian Straight Gay wtv.
When I was at the National Student Diversity Leadership Conference in high school, an experience which shaped my life, I was told by a fellow student that beauty is instilled with the image of your own family, your mother and your sisters. If this is true, how does one do just that with a beautiful Jewish mother and an equally beautiful biracial sister?
