Don’t Forget, You’re Not White

On Growing Up Biracial

Me, right before the world let me know exactly who I was

Pretty cute kid, right? Maybe even the kind of kid you’d want to be friends with your child, smart, polite, full of innocence and wonder. Well, not so much. This is my kindergarten school picture taken just before I received the beginning of my real education. By real education, I don’t mean the usual ABC’s; I mean who I was in this world and how that world saw me.