Bullying Blog Part 2- Veronica

Hey everyone!

Today we are going to talk about me (Veronica) and my sister growing up being bullied by both family and others. However when I was younger, I didn’t necessarily have to deal with verbal bullying or anything like what my older sister did. Most of the time it was people staring at my family and I that would really bother me. When I was younger, my grandmother would ask people if they had ever seen a black girl with a white women before if she caught them staring at us for long periods of time, or if they were giving us dirty looks.  Usually, when people would stare at us,  my sister and I would just stare back and/or sometimes we would wave at them.

 

Growing up my older sister would be called names such as Oreo, zebra and coon. People would comment about how she thought she was “all that” because she had “good hair”, while others assumed and asked if she wore weave in her hair. She also had to put up with bullying from our own mother and other sisters. Our mother, who is black, would instill hatred in our sisters who are not mixed by telling them that they would never amount to anything because they are not mixed and that their dad isn’t white. Our mother would tell my other sisters who are not mixed that since they were not light enough that they would never find a man. Why would you even put your children  through that? Why would you even tell your child that? This ended up causing friction between my sisters.

 

Something that me, Nina and my sister have all gone through is being looked at weirdly because  we talk properly. People are shocked when they see how we talk and assume that we are trying to be white simply for talking proper. Excuse us for having an education and respect for how we talk with others. That is how we were raised it does not have anything to do with us trying to be “white” or make anyone look bad.

 

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Thank you for reading,

 

Nina and Veronica

 

 

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Bullying Blog Part 1- Nina

Hey guys!

 

So we are going to talk a little about being bullied growing up. Nowadays there are more and more biracial children being born, so it’s becoming more of a norm to see. And although Veronica and I are not that old, we do know that growing up it was not a norm for us. For us it was either strictly black or strictly white, it was rare to see a lot of mixed kids. Growing up we didn’t really notice racism for the simple fact we grew up around both sides of our family.

For me (Nina) I had to deal with people talking about how I thought I was too good as a result of me being light-skinned and that I had “good hair”. I didn’t know what my hair had to do with anything and so I just brushed it off, I thought it was stupid to dislike someone because their hair was different. I also did not have many friends growing up, for the reason; that people assumed I was stuck up and thought I put myself on a higher pedestal than them  just because of how I looked. I got called names like mutt, half-breed, and Oreo; I was even called an abomination which hit me kind of hard because I was so young when this happened and I didn’t understand until I was older. Now that I am older a lot of these things don’t bother me for the fact that I know that racism and bullying is something that will never truly go away. I know how I am as a person just because my parents are two different races doesn’t make me any different from the next person. Growing up in general is hard, but being mixed is a different story considering you don’t understand why people hate you before even getting to know you; they just hate you for being biracial.