By SheelaR

I’ve been working on a new post. It’s from a deep place. I was hoping to post it the other day, but the distractions have been many and they’ve created a little bit of writer’s block.  Lately, I’m obsessed with exploring our muddled history and it affects on our present day lives. As a mixed-race woman, I feel so affected by both sides of the many racial issues that have engulfed America.  I still struggle with how should or shouldn’t identify. The fence straddling for me has been dizzying.

I took a DNA heritage test last year and it revealed nothing new, but for some reason the revelation was a surprise.  My father is white (Irish) and my mother’s father is mixed (Italian/Black), so my DNA came back as 74% European, yet… Knowing it and seeing it in black and white was surreal, because the older I get the more I can relate to the black experience.  I think you know from some of my past posts… It is a very new experience for me. As I’ve said before, the black experience in America is less about your mindset or where you live and more about how you experience life as a person of color. Racism and bigotry for persons of color is oddly intrinsic to the American experience. And I’ll explain that in my new post.

I’m just trying to garner a better understanding through more detailed exploration of America’s history as it relates to race and the many symbols of freedom that we hold so dear to us.  I don’t want to engage in hyperbole, so I’m taking care to bring you not just my opinion, but some cold hard facts.

I’m logging off now. I need make a grocery store run and dinner. All this thinking is making me hungry 😉