MIXED RACE

What Happens When You Are Not “White” Like Your White Father

It leaves you all twisted up inside.

The author at age 8 with her father.

I was in the dressing room with the rest of my class. We had just finished rehearsal for a play. I was in eighth grade and this was drama class.

That day I was getting my stuff ready in the dressing room. I knew my dad was picking me…