See on Scoop.it – THE ONE DROP RULE – LA REGOLA DELLA GOCCIA UNICA
“I have the right:
– not to justify my existence in this world
– not to keep the races separate within me
– not to be responsible for people’s discomfort with my physical ambiguity
– not to justify my ethnic legitimacy
– to identify myself differently than strangers expect me to identify
– to identity myself differently than how my parents identity me
– to identify myself differently than my brothers and sisters
– to identify myself differently in different situations
– to create a vocabulary to communicate about being multiracial
– to change my identity over my lifetime–and more than once
– to have loyalties and identify with more than one group of people
– to freely choose whom I befriend and love”
by Maria P.P. Root
