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Originally posted by AKA_Monet
Sweetheart, have you EVER tried? You will NEVER know, until you try... Do not discount the strength of those in the African American community, until you have done your "footwork"...
Your relatives did not tell you these things because 1) they did not know themselves; 2) were told not to, because when they were growing up, it could get you killed...
And your statement about showing up to different cultural celebrations... Very stereotypical, don't you think? Especially since Dr. King was about unity for all people... And the first day of Kwaanza is Umoja which means unity...
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I've only known a couple of months and no, I haven't looked into it yet. One reason is because I don't care to have people jumping down my throat about how I choose to pursue that. I named the celebrations I did because those are huge big deals around here.
When our darkskinned Filipina daughter was a baby, AA women would come up to me and say, 'WHO gave you the right to adopt that black baby?" They would get pretty nasty about it and most refused to believe that she was Asian. There are a lot of people of all races here who are NOT all about unity.
I considered whether or not to post this for quite some time because I figured that someone would get on my case for some reason. This is a new and wonderful discovery that I've made and I don't care to have people tell me I'm screwing up when I don't even know what to do next.