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[name] Aja
[where you live] Jefferson City MO,USA
[siblings]None
[age]21
[what's it like being mulatto in your eyes]I never really liked the word mulatto. It always seemed like that word that was used to label me as SOMETHING. I don't want to be called that, in fact I don't want to be called anything. I'm not ashamed of my mixture, my father is black and my mother is Icelandic/Italian. I was/am lucky enough to have smart parents that never really made race something that defined me. In fact, I never really thought about it until someone pointed it out one day.
[when and where did you first hear the word mulatto?] I had a teacher when I was a little girl that called me 'that little mulatto girl' and it just struck me as something that people used to say in the 50's. To me it's almost the same as when people say 'Negro'. I'm not fond of it.
[for what it's worth, do you ever really feel like you belong in a certain crowd?]No, I've always felt outcast from most 'groups' not because of my heritage, but because I'm just a pretty eccentric person anyway. I have my very close friends and the 'color' or 'type' isn't something that is consistent. I've dated a variety of colors of people. I wasn't raised in a way that told me whom to date or befriend, so it's never been something I put much thought into when I choose someone to hang out with.
This is a lovely community because it's like everywhere I look, it's people that look like me!! :oD
Here's me. This photo is kinda strange...sorry it's the only I could find on short notice. A friend took it as a 'model' for a sketch She was doing (a face with the tongue out in this fashion).
[where you live] Jefferson City MO,USA
[siblings]None
[age]21
[what's it like being mulatto in your eyes]I never really liked the word mulatto. It always seemed like that word that was used to label me as SOMETHING. I don't want to be called that, in fact I don't want to be called anything. I'm not ashamed of my mixture, my father is black and my mother is Icelandic/Italian. I was/am lucky enough to have smart parents that never really made race something that defined me. In fact, I never really thought about it until someone pointed it out one day.
[when and where did you first hear the word mulatto?] I had a teacher when I was a little girl that called me 'that little mulatto girl' and it just struck me as something that people used to say in the 50's. To me it's almost the same as when people say 'Negro'. I'm not fond of it.
[for what it's worth, do you ever really feel like you belong in a certain crowd?]No, I've always felt outcast from most 'groups' not because of my heritage, but because I'm just a pretty eccentric person anyway. I have my very close friends and the 'color' or 'type' isn't something that is consistent. I've dated a variety of colors of people. I wasn't raised in a way that told me whom to date or befriend, so it's never been something I put much thought into when I choose someone to hang out with.
This is a lovely community because it's like everywhere I look, it's people that look like me!! :oD
Here's me. This photo is kinda strange...sorry it's the only I could find on short notice. A friend took it as a 'model' for a sketch She was doing (a face with the tongue out in this fashion).