Guestbook

This is the first entry. I am this website’s editor. Please send any suggestions to me at the e-mail below.

7/21/1997 8:29:02 PM

I am currently doing some reasearch on racism for a paper, that I am doing. I found it very interesting as I have two children whose fater is black and me being Native Indian of Canada. Glad I came across this page. Now I may be able to help my teenage daughter come to terms with her self. JC.

10/29/1997 9:53:14 PM

10/31/1997 11:21:22 PM

i am multi-racial. I need info on clubs, organizations and people who are like me. i feel like i am the only one. please e-mail me.

11/15/1997 11:40:57 PM

James, You have a wonderful site! We need more sites like this. Keep up the good work!

11/27/1997 8:11:30 AM

Keep going!!!!

12/1/1997 8:56:43 PM

We need more people in the world like you. Thanks for your web site.

12/3/1997 7:20:19 PM

hello to the people like me!!!! where have you been all my life? it’s great to know i’m not alone. please email me and give me info on how to create awareness about the multiracial community on my campus. –the danish chincana

12/4/1997 10:35:25 PM

Hi! Great web site. I’m so glad that someone is finally trying to stand up for multi-racial people such as myself. I think we’re the most beautiful people and people need to realize that we do exist.

12/19/1997 7:38:33 PM

James, I just emailed you, your site is terrific:-) As a biracial person it is about time we are counted for and not just one half of us! Keep up the incredibly great work. Thank you, Cindy

1/31/1998 8:06:39 PM

Such a wonderful sight! hehehe, but seriously I want to commend you on how well this site is put together. You give honor to the families that are displayed here. Keep up the good work.

2/9/1998 6:49:29 AM

Hi, It is so refreshing to find a site such as yours. I am white and the mother of two biracial children. They are now at the age that they are asking questions about race that I want to be able to answer without confusing them. Please send any advice that you may have. Thanks so much.

2/11/1998 11:52:52 PM

I really enjoyed this website!!! I was surprised to find that there are others out there as dedicated to issues, topics and concerns regarding the bi-racial/multi-racial community. Thank-You very much!

3/3/1998 5:00:30 AM

The time has come for us to be recognized as a nation of our own. I have a deep love for all those who support our people and will take a stand.

3/16/1998 6:09:45 PM

Thanks for your existance. Enough marginalizing of multiracial people!

3/20/1998 10:55:03 PM

I am a 34yr old man who happens to be black and understands that you want to have a seperate category that says you are more than one ethnicity and I know that the NAACP and other groups are opposed to this idea but if you want to know why they oppose this effort may I suggest that you read the book called ‘The Color Complex’ written by Midge Wilson Kathy Russell, and Ronald Hall.

4/3/1998 2:15:08 AM

As a biracial child I am pleased to see that other people are out there supporting the issue, be they multicultural or not. I can’t wait to get involved and help out!

4/23/1998 6:39:30 AM

I think this web site is very nice!!!!

4/28/1998 3:47:34 AM

It would be great if statistical information was listed. The numbers are growing, but at what rate. Also, what about children of different religious affiliations.

6/18/1998 6:17:57 PM

Remember, in this republic of ours, democracy is a use it or lose it deal. Please write your congressional representatives and tell them what’s what.

9/16/1998 8:28:46 PM

My Mother is half Native American and half African. She taught us that everyone is either full or partial African! Everyone came from Africa. As soon as we stop running from Africa, we will ALL be able to enjoy the human experience . . . we are ALL in this thing together.

11/6/1998 2:05:51 AM

Something that may be interesting to you and others. Come read an essay or two and share your thoughts/feedback either in my guestbook and/or interactive discussion board!

12/29/1998 11:37:19 PM

Being bi-racial myself. I understand the struggles we have to go through on a daily basis.Keep standing for the cause.

1/9/1999 2:50:59 AM

I enjoy your website. I hope people realize in this great nation of ours that there is no pure race or race period. We’re human beings, period.

1/25/1999 5:40:39 PM

Hey guys! Great site. I am a multiracial/int’l adoptee, who have suffered for years under the systematic caucasian influence, which almost erased my Korean identity. Luckily I managed to re-find it and create my own identity before it was completely gone. I now live in Canada and I love this place, it’s the most multicultural/racial place I have ever been, more tolerant than Europe (where I grew up). Keep up the good work.

2/7/1999 1:59:30 AM

I have been looking for a site like this for a long time. Thanks you so much with informing me with important issues. Keep up the great work.

3/26/1999 12:08:32 AM

Glad to find your site. I am in a Multiracial family, my husband is black, I am white we have a child together and I have 2 white children from a prev. marriage. It is not easy: the looks, the comments, our families are not all supportive: My father, g.mother, &uncle and his sisters don’t support us at all. We have alot of strain in our relationship, but I want it to work and I am hoping your site might help me.

4/12/1999 5:23:02 AM

I am a multi-racial person myself.I am Caucasian,African-American,and Native American.I feel this homepage is serving a good purpose

6/15/1999 10:23:52 AM

Hi, as an African-Native American, I would like to support and salute your efforts to unite the thousands of multi-ethnic people in this country and beyond. Certainly, it is a noteworthy effort. However,please keep in mind that none of us made the racial policies of this country which are primarily the basis of colonial and post-colonial racial definitions. Indeed, we were not responsible for the making of a highly racialized society which rewards individuals based on race. Thus, along with efforts to resist the forces which “cubby hole” us into racial categories, let fight the forces which created racial classifications in the first place. As long as we dissent and fragment among ourselves and do not seek to dismantle and destroy the forces which instituted these racial categories, “white supremacy” continues to survive. I believe our goal should be more than to obtain recognition of our parents’ and ours’ etnicities. Peace! and good luck!

7/4/1999 9:30:15 PM

Great website!

7/21/1999 10:25:35 PM

I am a multiracial teen, and I can’t believe I saw how a kkk member just signed the guestbook and insulted my people! Is it because they just don’t understand? Or are they just scared there is less and less “pure” people out there? How is racial mixing againest god? I personally think of it as a gift of understanding all. Show me in the bible where God clearly states that he is againest that. To all the future parents in doubt: Don’t worry about anything, I would’nt want to be anything else, and being multiracial allows you to be more accepting of other cultures, and those are the kind of people we need!

7/24/1999 6:25:02 PM

Very impressive.
Finally a venue. so Insightful that it is amazing.

Thanks

9/10/1999 10:05:35 PM

I’m multiracial by my genealogy (African-American, Native American, and Anglo-American) and I want be a multiracial activist especially for Houston, TX area. I have goals to be a crossover/bilingual singer, actor, and model. The entertainment industry needs a person of mixed ancestry like myself to break barriers. Mainly I want to sing in the Latin market (mostly Tejano/cumbia), but that can very hard for a mixed-race/non-Latino person to do that. Anyone who have good/honest connections to the music business (mainly the crossover market) please e-mail. Remember, you have LEGAL CONNECTIONS and with a GOOD HEART. E-mail address is http://www.zacariascaramelo@yahoo.com

10/3/1999 2:16:21 AM

Question- where am I from or where do I live? Big difference!! Anyhow- I am multi-ethnic woman, interracially married, 4 grown kids 5 grandkids we are of every color and hue and nationality. I think we have an incredible family because of the diversity and I am really pleased that this web site exists!

10/28/1999 3:05:38 AM

I’ve never heard the “Aryan Nations” people answer these questions: Are American Indians “mud people”? Are you for or against “miscegenation” between whites and American Indians?

Since American Indians intermarry with whites at a rate of more than 50% and many people who claim to be “white” also also claim American Indian ancestry, these questions are important.

11/1/1999 3:22:28 AM

Ever since I was old enough to take standardized tests and fill out forms, I’ve hated those little boxes. Race is one very small aspect of who a person is. People are obsessed with race to an extremely unhealthy level. This obsessive racism is just as rampant in society now as it was two hundred years ago, the only diffence is that today it’s disguised with fluffy terms such as “ethnic pride.” Segregation is still practiced under the flowery concept of “maintaing diversity.” College students join fill-in-your-race student unions and bookstore shelves are packed with books containing the gathered works and narratives of fill-in-your-race authors in American during X era. People accuse people of other races of oppresing them, while those accuse others of trying to destroy them. It’s a vicious and laughable cirlcle that even the most educated, enlightened people fall into. Matter of fact it seems rampant among many academic circles.

6/4/2002 3:32:31 AM

Love the Site!

7/16/2002 3:05:48 AM

9/19/2002 10:47:04 AM

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10/3/2002 5:42:11 PM

Hello My name is Melissa and I my mother is Filipino and my Father is African American. I would love to be a Multiracial Activist and support and others who are multiracial. Please contact me by email Melisk507@hotmail.com

10/16/2002 2:24:40 PM

I am the President of the Society for the Preservation of Creole Heritage and Identity. I have been protesting the fact that the Sisters of the Holy Family of New Orleans and the Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans are publicizing Mother Henriette Delille as a “Native Born African American” instead of as the “Native Born Creole American” which she was when she lived in 1812 to 1862. The following is a copy of the letter sent to me in answer of my protest by the Archbishop Alfred Hughes of the Diocese of New Orleans, La. “In you letter of Octobe 11, 2002, I note that you raise the question of the current ancestry of Servant of God Henriette Delille.
It is not appropriate for me to enter into these questions directly. I have great confidence in the work of Father Cyuprian Davis, O.S.B., of St. Meinrad Archabbey.
When the Church canonizes a saint, she holds up this person as someone who practiced exceptional charity and whose life has a special message for people today. Henriette Delille will not be raised to the altar because she was supposedly two-thirds white and was nice to people darker than she. She will be recognized as a blessed necause she was a woman of the poor who did not seek to run away from the life of oppression and petty demeaning regulations by “passing for white”. Because she was a descendant of slaves, she knew how to meet the needs of slaves; as an illegitimate child, she sought to bring black slaves and free blacks to the sacraments and to a Christian life.
Henriette Delille was a black woman who loved and served the poor in a society where women of her background and ancestry were exploited and despised. It would indeed be regrettable if a woman who should be a symbol of reconciliation and justice should be turned into a symbol of dissension and internal racial divisions.
I ask that you join me in praying for the beatification of Henriette Delille so that she in turn may become a patron for us for justice, harmony and peace.”
Sincerely in the Lord,
Most Reverend Alfred C. Hughes
Archbishop of New Orleans
Since this is a very long letter, I will post my answer on a subsequent guestbook writing.

12/9/2002 4:54:27 PM

Hello, all. I am a young white mother of two beautiful bi-racial children. I made a promise to myself to make a difference in this racist world that my children are inheriting. I have just completed a website that offers anti-racism messages and designs on t-shirts, hats, greeting cards, and much more. Its URl is http://www.cafepress.com/whatiscolor. I firmly believe that one way to let the world know that we will not condone, contribute to, or tolerate racism any longer is to show them. Even if you do not like any of my designs, please find one out there that you do like and proudly wear or display it. Through the support of my site, I will soon be able to start producing bumper stickers and other merchandise that I cannot offer now. We CAN make a difference, together. If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem!

12/15/2002 3:20:00 PM

I am a California born 1/4Native American, 1/4African American 1/2 West Indian: Hybreed. I see the world at many differnt angles. E-mail me to converse if any of my ethnicity interests you. My question to anyone who has a common variable: Does it seem odd at the least, for someone with so many backgrounds to feel stuck in the middle of it all? Is it abnormal to feel as though having so many sides, makes one feel as if they belong to no side at all?

3/1/2003 1:27:59 AM

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4/28/2003 9:30:38 PM

Just interested in your last name. In my father’s branch of the Landrith family, there are no more by that name, due to his having all girls. He was born in or around Flat Rock Illnois to Enoch Washington Landrith who died when he was 13. He was born in 1903 to Enoch and Mary Jane (Magill), the youngest child. He was a teacher for over 35 years, teaching business. Just wondering if you’ve ever heard of Enoch. Evelyn

Comment by Evelyn Landrith Moorhead — 5/27/2003 @ 2:04 am

greetings from hawaii: great website and i hope that others from around the world may have an opportunity to view your site too. have a nice day!

6/5/2003 11:57:49 PM

My problem is the hypocrisy I have experienced from other people of color as I am of a spanish, mexican, sephardim, comanche and italian background…
When i claim the white I am seen as trying to be “whitey” when really I am just glad to be all that I am. When people of color deny their white heritage it is a good thing, but when one embraces their heritage, all of it…

then what?
confused

7/11/2003 7:20:26 AM

Jackie’s Interacial Forum

7/30/2003 8:28:21 PM

i am a member of mixedfolks.com and just wanted to take a gander at your site. i put it in my favorites column so i can take more time to read everything. thanks for offering something like this– good lookin’ out. :)

9/21/2003 9:43:42 PM

I want friends from all parts of the world i am young and beautiful i will answer all mails

10/6/2003 4:03:23 PM

Dear, Editor I found this site interesting and increasing. I think that we all have the right as any person to define ourselves according to what our spirit says weare. I know that the question most people of color try to aviod is the question of color period. This whole debate is old. currently being repeated through the vehicles of technology and media. to say to anyome that they must subscribe to being called Black, white, multiracial,biracial,or anything else is often offensive b/c it tends to say your different from being human and deserving of the same respect ,love, and honor as any life. Let us be real. the real question is color and power. How the dynamics play them selves in every part of a society where so called non-whites exsits arounf the globe. Now the dress rehearsal maybe different but the lie is the same. We are all tied to the history and the exchanging of one lie for another will not change the course I find us on. No one is expemt from bias wheter your fair complexion or darker than dirt. The seed of it all is self-hatred. though we use these elusive terms to describe our selves we are all subject to the lies we live everday in every place. I just hope and pray that we are all truthful about the purpose of our words b/c that is where the real danger lies. No one can escape the history of who they are. That is not limited to so called non-whites,african-americans,blacks, negros,colored, whatever distinction to descibe people. Just peolpe who are deserving of a life worth as much as any one whatever thay may be called.Maybe the illusion of education,power,pride,color and sex. Have affected our brains and I said our b/c we are all apart of the history of it all.If it is trully the desire to define ourselves in this age by our coices. Let it start with the truth and our self.Even though evryone is entilted to their own version of what that is. That is a chioce and I respect that. When we start decieving ourselves. That is when the real destruction comes about who we are and what we are becoming. Not the genetics of it b/c the truth is there is no pure race.Color and power still remain the question. The answer to it isn’t the reclassifaction of colored folk, balck, multiracial biracail, or people of colour.We have been a slave to that ghost far to long. We need to eliminate that lie world wide. As long as we live in fear and not truth. Then we are subject to whatever someone says regardless if it is writtenon paper or consimated on bed sheets. If there is no truth,respect or love in it. We have exchanged one dress rehearsal for another. I wish and know you for the very best family and pray for all our understanding to increase. Much love and respect beyond the words!e

12/31/2003 1:10:55 PM

4/23/2004 2:00:32 PM

Helloooo,
This is very intereting website!
I will be coming back often :)

Ciao, Margot from Orkut

5/28/2004 6:30:49 AM

I can’t seem to stop reading your interesting very formal writings. It’s truly an education to read such well written information. Thanks for the very well put together information.

6/9/2004 7:58:23 AM

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7/28/2004 2:18:49 PM

I am of Mohawk(Native), European, & possibly other descent. I grew up in an urban environment with a inseperable connection to the culture & soul of our displaced African brothers & Sisters. I am Red & White on the outside, but feel Red & Black in my heart. I used to wish that Creator had just formed me from one kind of clay. I felt cursed. But now I realize how truly blessed I am.. Creator formed this way for His purpose. I have been blessed to catch a personal glimpse into the inner workings of Red, White, & Black culture as kin. Through my pain of fragmented identity which always seemed threatened I had to really learn beyond other’s expectations & I feel that has helped me become a more thoroughly sincere Human Being. I pray Creator will continue to use me to bring recociliation to these hurting nations embodied in all of our Brothers & Sisters.ONE BLOOD!
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8/17/2004 6:39:10 AM

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Asian men limiting themselves in the Interracial Game of Love? Or is the other way around?
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11/1/2004 4:14:37 PM

Curiousity led me here–I can appreciate your message, as I am mixed too: filipina and caucasian. Check out hapas.com in addition to this site. There are a lot more of us out there than you think…it is always refreshing to talk to someone who might be culturally similar.

4/2/2005 2:30:32 AM

I’m German, Irish, English, Cherokee, Iroqois/Mexican it irritates me to no end when people even ask my ethnicity what they want to know is why a light skinned guy has a mexican last name I tell them my mom is “white” but i still get static “you don’t look mexican” I get pissed “like so what are you saying I’m the milkmans kid? You callin my mom a whore?!”

8/4/2005 8:23:38 AM

My father is half-Samoan, Irish, English, Scottish, and Dutch. My mother is Irish, Scottish, Dutch, Australian, French (both France French and Canadian French), German, and Native America (Passamaquoddy). So, I received my father’s Samoan surname and my mother’s white skin. This of course confuses people because, while I look extremely white (minus the body shape, which is very Samoan), I have a surname that doesn’t match whatsoever. People then continue to try and persuade me that it’s really Hawaiian, because I don’t look Samoan. I’ve seen my grandpa, his birth certificate, and pictures of his family. My father looks full Samoan (one couldn’t tell he has a white mother) so, I’m pretty sure I’m Samoan, thank you very much.

It’s hard for my family in particular because the Samoan side of my family (my grandfather’s family) doesn’t talk to us, nor acknowledge us, because we are partially white. Then my grandma’s side doesn’t acknowledge us either, because we are all partially Samoan. Being disowned by both sides of my father’s family has been tough. It’s been especially tough going to the same school as my Samoan cousins, some of them knowing full well that they are so, yet not even getting a nod in the same direction because I’m a “white girl.” I think the whole time I have been in high school, maybe three of them acknowledged that I am Samoan and even said hi every once in a while.

When I was little, I used to come home so mad because I wasn’t brown. I used to hate my mother because she made me white, thus canceling out any link I had to “a culture.” I wanted to color myself with a brown marker, just so I would at least look like I was supposed too, to make the “white girl” names go away.

It doesn’t stop there, with me, however. I have two African-American cousins, two Puerto-Rican cousins, one Italian and two Mexican cousins, all who share the Samoan-White mix we received from our grandparents. A few times my aunt has been asked, “How could you do that to your babies?” because she had beautiful twin children with a black man. One of my cousins was picked on and beat up at school because he was “too white” (he’s probably one of the darkest out of all of us, but it was simply because he was partially white at well). I really don’t know how my brother is going survive, as he looks even whiter than me, with blonde curly hair and bright blue eyes (his afro is his only link to any Samoan traits).

A few times, I have been asked to pick one, white or brown, because I apparently can’t be both. It’s wrong to have more than one “race” in America. You have to pick one. If you pick the white one, you’re a racist. If you pick brown, you better look it, because otherwise you’re a liar.

I learned this lesson on, ironically enough, a civil rights trip. I went on a trip to the Deep South to visit the historical sights of the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s. It was interesting enough, though a few times I felt extremely guilty because I am part white (they frequently reminded us white students that we had nothing to feel guilty about, it wasn’t us who did, etc.). During a bus ride to one of the sites, we were reading about one of the civil rights leaders. I noticed that it said he was a quarter white, along with black. I thought this interesting, assuming that it was good thing. I brought it up to the man in charge of the whole trip (the one who started it) and he looked very sternly at me, as if I was trying to make trouble, and said, “He’s black.” I was confused, showed him the passage in the material he provided for us (all books of credible sources), and said, “But it says here that he’s part white.” The Director replied to me, “He’s black. He’s not white, he’s black.”

That never sat right with me. I kept thinking, “What’s wrong with being both? Is something wrong with that?” The whole trip was about equality and acceptance. It was about accepting one another for what we are, and loving those differences, yet here was the guy who started the trip, who said he promoted these things the trip stood for, yet he was saying, “This man is black. Just black. Not mixed.” Aren’t we supposed to love mixed races too? Isn’t it racism, the very thing that the Civil Rights leaders were fighting, to only acknowledge one ethnicity, to blot out the rest just because you’re black, Mexican, or Irish? It bothered me, still bothers me that one has to choose an ethnicity to identify with. That’s not right, because it shows embarrassment of who you are.

Be proud of your history, whether it is good or bad. Sure, the English and the Dutch have done terrible things, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to start saying, “I’m Samoan and that’s it!”

America, both white, black, brown, whatever, has never been able to deal with mixed people and quite frankly I’m sick of it. I’m white, Samoan, and Native American. I am proud to be all of those. I’m not going to claim one side or the other, because saying I’m one ethnicity isn’t going to make the others go away. That’s wrong to me. People should be proud of all of what they are, whether that is full, half, a quarter, one sixteenth, whatever.

We are what we are. We should be proud of having such a heritage.

8/13/2005 3:47:35 AM

COOL SITE MGBADA AND HI TO GUEST.OBINNA

9/3/2005 9:48:07 AM

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10/24/2005 5:15:08 AM

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11/4/2005 3:43:15 PM

I am a middle-aged, biracial woman…just looking for somewhere I can hold a conversation with someone who gets me—to whom I don’t have to explain or defend what I know is true. I tend to be oversensitive and although I know that it is wonderful that Obama has initiated this national dialogue, I also find it personally overwhelming sometimes.

3/22/2008 3:26:46 AM

Excellent site. Multiracial activism is the future. Well done.

4/18/2008 11:24:01 PM

theses assholes wish to go to HELL!.

5/18/2008 4:59:16 AM

Very informative site, keep up the good work.

11/18/2008 2:17:03 PM

Hello,
I too am the descendent of the Melungeons. I have seen these people living here in NC. They have ‘severe’ deep black skin, long smooth black hair, pointed european noses and (shockingly!) blue, green, and grey eyes (like my people). It was incredible. Incredibly shy and live in an sheltered environment. They themselves are “National Geographic” worthy. :cwm10:

3/10/2009 9:46:00 AM

Would love for you to check out my site and my upcoming book.

3/25/2009 8:54:10 AM

Season’s Greetings! Best Wishes for a Happy New Year!

12/27/2011 1:18:05 AM

I am Dr. Richard Lewis, Jr. at the University of Texas at San Antonio and I am conducting my third survey of interracially married individuals since 1994. As a individual who has been in an interracial union for 27 years, I believe this research is extremely important for understanding the true status of race relations in the United States. If you would like to participate or know others who are in interracial unions that would like to participate, they can access the questionnaire through Survey Monkey. Contact me at richard.lewis@utsa.educ and I will send the link. Thank you for your assistance in this important research.