Ladies, I hope you dont mind me posting in your forum, but I would like to respond to this.
I have been questioned about my blackness since I was in elementary school. Its ranged from being a straight A student, speaking properly to the race of my friends. It especially hurst when your immediate family is in one the "fun". And of course it didnt help that I joined a historically white GLO. I went where i felt the most comfortable, and my chpater happened to be diverse in race ( on a side not I would have joined AKA, but they werent on campus during my years. I appreciate your org tremendously b/c it gave me a scholarship through my City's Urban League ).
Being black is part of my life and I have never denied that. Its a very important thing. But I am more about personality and being a human being more than anything else. And its ppl like the ones you all have talked about that make me mad and I want to be like its ppl like YOU who are keeping us from accomplishing more things and holding yourself back.