When White People Don’t Believe That I’m 100 Percent Black

And why I am also to blame

Photo credit: Author’s personal collection

“But you can’t be 100 percent Black”, she said as she brushed her blond hair to one side of her head.

I was tempted to say that I was half black and half white. It’s what she wanted to hear anyway, it’s what would allow me to become a part of the clique.

She continued: “You have a small nose and you really don’t h…