Racial Differences

As a young child my mixed-race heritage hindered my development. It has also paved a way for me to put an end to the imbedded notion that differences between races should be a dividing factor. My mother is white and my father is black, making me half white and half black. Two year after I was born they ended up getting a divorce due to the fact that the love they had was lost. This withering connection mostly had to do with the racial tensions present between families. Other people in my family did not approve of the whole relationship and even the thought of me being conceived. Now of course I did not comprehend all of this as a young child. However, having to travel back and forth from these two culturally contrasting families surrounded