Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 19:30:44 -0800(PST)
From: Fancy M. Ramsey
Subject: Letter to the Editor
I would like to say that you all should listen to your own voices. You state that you are against being broke off into a “race category” and that biracial children need to stand together and fight for a place in socity where they are not stero-typed by one race or another. Well, it sounds to me like you are building your own racial foundation to justify being biracial in society. You are confronting the issue by building more blocks of racism. You are stero-typing yourselves. By building your own organization your are saying to society that your a special and that we need a place to belong. There is no problem wanting to belong, but you are not mixing the water and oil. You are only finding another bottle to pour it in. Stand up for yourself fine, but remember that society is Black and White. I did not make the rules. I am also biracial, but I don’t have to fight for a place in society. I know who I am, and I know how people see me. You are fighting a battle that goes deeper than the color of skin. The next time that you see a black man with a white women on his arm ask him what he is thinking. Now, you can complain my sisters and brothers. Don’t build more walls brake them down.
Love and Light,
Fancy M. Ramsey
Editor: You said, “it sounds to me like you are building your own racial foundation to justify being biracial in society” No one needs to justify being biracial. Anyone demanding justification from a “biracial” person is clearly not to be trusted.
You go on to say, “The next time that you see a black man with a white women on his arm ask him what he is thinking.” Why does anyone need to ask this hypothetical man anything? What gives anyone the right to question him? This whole line of thought you’ve presented is bizarre and frightening. You scare me.