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Biracial and Multiracial
The former president's racist lies at NABJ are dj vu all over again.
"Are you the nanny?"
Marvin Russell, Sarah Willie-LeBreton, and Veena Goel Crownholm join HuffPost Live to discuss the challenge of being multi-racial in America.
"Toms bullying was brutal. He made fun of my name. He made fun of my weight. He made fun of my family, my school work, my clothes. Nothing was off-limits."
WHAT'S HAPPENING
"Unknowingly, I started to reject all of the parts of myself that were Black."
The passenger said she and her 10-year-old child should receive an apology for the "traumatizing" experience, and called on people to "check your bias."
"For all my daydreaming of my child, there was one constant: I knew she would be brown-skinned like me."
Through my hair journey from childhood to adulthood, I was able to shift from culturally curious, to culturally confident.
"How do we begin to mend not only the things that I have experienced but the entire 400 years of intergenerational trauma I have inherited?"
Here's some expert-backed advice to guide conversations about racism in multiracial families.