I'm a suspicious mulatto, which means I'm too black to be white and too white to be doing it right.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn't make sense in people's minds. If I'm white, how can I walk through a department store and still have people scared that I'm going to rob them? Which, that can still happen.
There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.
Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.
Like, you can't tell a certain race, like, 'You're supposed to act this way, and you're not supposed to act this way because of what color you are,' like, that's just holding everybody back, you know what I'm saying?
Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion.
Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.
I'm really white trash.
I am Charles Mingus. Half-black man. Yellow man. Half-yellow. Not even yellow, nor white enough to pass for nothing but black and not too light enough to be called white.
There's nothing wrong with white if it's all right.