I enjoyed this. I am also mixed race, Black father, white mother. I was adopted into a home with 2 Black parents but always passed as white (if you look at my picture, it's pretty obvious why).

I'm so sorry your mom handled things the way she did. it's hard enough to be mixed race without her adding all that onto it.

I don't say I'm white or Black. I can't say I'm Black, that'd be absurd given my blue eyes and milky white skin. I also don't say I'm white because I'm not. And racist people will make sure to remind me when they learn of my ethnicity.

So I'm neither and and both. I've obviously benefitted from white privilege my siblings never got to have. And I've never experienced the racism they have and continue to experience. In a strange way there's guilt there for that, if that makes sense.

Whewre can I get your memoir, is it on Anazon?