For multiracial Americans, having conversations with white relatives about the Black Lives Matter movement and racial injustice is often an uphill battle.
“Yes, he left me on ‘read,’” Weissler told HuffPost a month after the exchange. He called her the next day.
“Is he absorbing what I tell him? That I can’t tell you. But I am grateful he lets me call him out, and listens,” she said. But as many biracial people in the U.S. will tell you, dynamics in multiracial families are a lot more complicated than that. Sometimes, the silence is more comforting on both sides. When you’ve been vulnerable with your white relatives and shared your experiences with racism and theydeny it exists, it’s exhausting. In a scenario like this, avoiding any and all talk of race is a way to preserve your sanity.
But for the white side of her family, “it was very important to my family that I was always referred to as ‘biracial,’ never ‘black.’” Holliday is wary of what her white grandma will have to say each time the police kill another Black person, but she usually reaches out anyway. She refuses to give up on either woman.
But his extended white family views things differently. He’s had to cut off contact, at least on social media, with some family members, including a cousin he’s gotten into Facebook arguments with often in recent years.first took a knee in 2016, that cousin told HD that siding with the NFL player was “disrespecting [their deceased grandfather] who served in the military.”
“I replied that agreeing that ‘Black Lives Matter’ shouldn’t be something you get in trouble for saying and then I dropped the issue because I knew where it was heading.” She credits them with paying attention to Black issues in the news, seeking out Black-owned businesses, and staying in their integrated neighborhood long after their Black kids had moved out. And they read all the obligatoryBut she says they struggle to conceive of themselves as doing racist things, outside of simply being a part of a racist system.
“I think some of my family members truly don’t understand that proximity to blackness isn’t the same as being black, and that there are parts of my experience that they’ll never understand.”Grieser said most people in her extended family “seem to think racism is pretty much just over, or if it’s not, it really only exists in the form of people yelling the N-word.
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