“I’m Very Connected To My Community”: How These Multiracial Celebrities Identify Themselves
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Meg Butler
Soledad O’Brien
“My mom used to say all the time, ‘You’re a black girl. You’re a light-skinned black girl with freckles.’ They did a good job of saying who I was and what I was. They never tried to spin it or whatever.
I’ve spoken to a lot of audiences of biracial people, and I’ve met a lot of young people who were really confused about their identity. I tell them, ‘You owe it to yourself to figure out who you are and know who you are, but you don’t owe it to anyone else to explain it or defend it.'”
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