Notice that she calls herself a “white black woman.” Frankly, her extremely small amount of mixed ancestry and total lack of any “mixed race experience” makes her claim to be multiracial suspect as well. Her identity seems to be based on the assumption that all true “whites” are racially pure. She thought she was a “pure” white. She discovered a small amount of “black” ancestry in an ancestor. Now, she is mixed-race. I don’t buy it.
Here are more links about Linda Alexander:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/7/prweb145261.htm
http://theromancestudio.com/reviews/reviewers/lindaalexander.htm
http://www.authorsden.com/lindajalexander
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?AuthorID=9014&id=5920
“What is a “true white?” Why is it that there must be a certain percentage of “mixed ancestry”” (ie, “her extremely small amount of mixed ancestry”) for someone to see themselves as multiracial?
With all due respect, I respond to A. D. Powell that this sort of response is what continues to propogate racism. In claiming my familial mix, no matter whether it was my parents or my parents’ parents, I’m opening myself up to such commentary as you’ve indicated here, not to be considered just “”another white who discovers that infamous ‘blood'”” but to show that there really is NO such thing as being “racially pure.” I make no such assumptions so please don’t project your thoughts into my actions w/o any basis for doing so beyond your own ideologies.
I don’t know your family’s history but it’d be safe to say there’s possibly a mixture somewhere in YOUR line, too. That, in MY book, makes you mixed race. This goes both ways. The point is not to be able to claim black blood because in some circles it may now be seen as the “fashionable” thing to do. There are no rules that must be followed to be considered “multiracial.” There are no associations to join that make one “official.”
Why don’t you use your energies to help break down the walls, Ms. or Mr. Powell? Your efforts are only serving to keep them up. Communication is the key. It’s reality that I am partly a product of what is considered a long line of Louisiana’s mulatto history, no matter what I may look like.
Fact, whether or not YOU “buy it.”